Identity Politics FAIL: Elizabeth Warren Dissed By Cherokee Over DNA Test [VIDEO]

October 16, 2018

Identity Politics FAIL: Elizabeth Warren Dissed By Cherokee Over DNA Test [VIDEO]

by Nina Bookout in politics Post Comment

Yesterday, Elizabeth Warren went on the warpath. But the battle was over before it began. The grandiose announcement of her DNA test sank like a rock minutes after it aired. In one fell swoop she was completely dissed by the Cherokee Nation and showed that ALL of us are affirmative action candidates now! Her latest attempt at identity politics is a massive FAIL.

The Boston Globe had to issue a correction nearly immediately after the story aired.

Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 6th to 10th generation relative. The generational range based on the ancestor that the report identified suggests she’s between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American.

But that’s not all. The DNA the genetic analyst had to use came from Peru, Mexico, and Columbia. So…she’s Mayan or Aztec?

Yet those who are all in for Lizzie have POUNCED on this as YAY! PROOF! She’s Native American! Oh wait, maybe this wasn’t a good idea?

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— neontaster (@neontaster) October 16, 2018

However, there are many who want her to quit with the identity politics!

“[A]n important thing for non-native people to understand is that Native identity is up to Native people. It’s not up to a scientist in a lab, it is not up to President Donald Trump’s twitter feed, and it’s not up to Elizabeth Warren,” Nagle said.

after too many media inquiries, here is my statement on the #ElizabethWarren DNA testing story. pic.twitter.com/cqD8PQqI0N

— Kim TallBear (@KimTallBear) October 15, 2018

The Cherokee, long touted by Warren as tribe she descends from, are NOT AMUSED.

“Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation,” Hoskin continued. “Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.” [Emphasis Added]

That folks, is what you’d call an epic smackdown.

DNA can help determine lineage and trace family roots.
DNA is NOT evidence for genuine tribal affiliation
Those who genuinely claim membership in tribes and Indian ancestry done so through multiple layers of documentation.

Has Lizzie EVER provided documentation as proof of the heritage she claims? NOPE. Again, Legal Insurrection’s William Jacobsen has spent several years debunking every piece of Warren’s bogus Indian heritage claims. Yesterday, Benny Johnson laid out an epic tweet thread saying the same.

3. Warren was identified by Harvard Law as a “woman of color.” Harvard promoted Warren’s hire as expanding their campus diversity by hiring a woman with "minority background" onto their faculty.

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 15, 2018

Chief Lizzie’s response? A major tantrum.

I won't sit quietly for @realDonaldTrump's racism, so I took a test. But DNA & family history has nothing to do with tribal affiliation or citizenship, which is determined only – only – by Tribal Nations. I respect the distinction, & don't list myself as Native in the Senate.

— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) October 15, 2018

To sum it all up, she is HEAP BIG PISSED that no one is taking her claim seriously, and all of this is Trump’s fault! Should we call her Chief “Stomps Foot” now?

In fact, she is now a poster child for all that is wrong regarding affirmative action.

Warren’s defense of her claim to being Native American is good for America. Because if Warren is an Indian, then so are most of the rest of us. And most of us are also African-American or Hispanic. If everyone is an Indian, then no one is an Indian. This logic is fatal to the whole corrupt affirmative action enterprise.

Yes folks, you read that correctly. She used the affirmative action system to her advantage and LIED through her teeth while doing so.

Not only that, but with this move, all those who have been slapped down for daring to culturally appropriate Pocahontas and Indian culture during Halloween? Sucks to be them. But when it’s Lizzie, cultural appropriation and identity politics is A FREAKING OK!

My child can’t dress as Pocahontas for Halloween because that’s cultural appropriation but Senator 1/1,024 claiming minority heritage for job advancement is all good.

K.

— Orange Muppet Energy (@sunnyright) October 15, 2018

Elizabeth Warren has claimed for years that her ancestry is part Native American. Understandably, given how this latest claim of hers has face planted, she’s getting pushback, and some of it is seriously awesome!