Did Senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren falsely claim she was a Native-American to advance her career?
I am not sure how well known Elizabeth Warren is on a national level so because I live in New Hampshire and follow Massachusetts politics very closely I will give you a brief summary: Elizabeth Warren is a carpetbagger elitist who moved from Oklahoma to Massachusetts in order to run for the Senate in an attempt to unseat Scott Brown. She claims to have provided the “intellectual foundation” for the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is so in tune with Massachusetts that she recently had to be corrected when she claimed western Massachusetts wasn’t landlocked. It also appears as if Barack Obama has endorsed Elizabeth Warren as the establishment’s choice over the other Democrats running in the primary.
With that summary out of the way, let us get to the main point of this post:
Elizabeth Warren, after an inquiry by the Boston Herald, released documents which showed that from 1986-1995 this white woman actually described herself as a Native-American minority. Needless to say, Scott Brown thought this claim was dubious at best, as did Native-American groups, and she was asked to prove this claim.
After some digging by the Warren campaign they actually found that her–and I am not making this up–great-great-great-grandmother on her mother’s side was listed as a Cherokee–this would make Elizabeth Warren 1/32 Native-American, and hardly a minority.
But the story doesn’t end there for the suddenly beleaguered Senatorial hopeful because during those same years she also identified herself as a minority professor in the Association of American Law Schools desk book. This is a directory of law professors which is used by many schools, and to them for all intents and purposes she was indeed a minority.
Elizabeth Warren is now claiming that she never used her dubious minority status for the benefit of her career, but that would come as a shock to Harvard University which touted her as an example of their racial diversity:
The Ivy League law school prominently touted Warren’s Native American background, however, in an effort to bolster their diversity hiring record in the ’90s as the school came under heavy fire for a faculty that was then predominantly white and male.
“Of 71 current Law School professors and assistant professors, 11 are women, five are black, one is Native American and one is Hispanic,” The Harvard Crimson quotes then-Law School spokesman Mike Chmura as saying in a 1996 article. The Crimson added that 83 percent of the Law School’s students believed the number of minority women on staff was inadequate.
“Although the conventional wisdom among students and faculty is that the Law School faculty includes no minority women, Chmura said professor of law Elizabeth Warren is Native American,” the Crimson wrote.
It seems quite likely to me that if Elizabeth Warren had more accurately described herself as the white woman she is that this job might have gone to another candidate, and more that likely she knew this would be a benefit to her so she purposely decided to highlight her very slim Native-American credentials. (We could take the time here to review the liberal racist policies of affirmative action, but that is not the point of this post.)
Whether or not Elizabeth Warren wants to admit it, her whole career as been based on a lie–intentional or not–and if it wasn’t for this there is the very real chance that she wouldn’t even be in the position to challenge Scott Brown in the first place.
Scott Brown has drawn the anger of the Tea Party, although he never claimed to be a Tea Party guy, for some of his votes. Scott Brown might not be the ideal conservative, and in fact he once labeled himself as a “Massachusetts Republican,” which should have signalled the Tea Party that he was more moderate than they hoped he would be, but if he was misunderstood it wasn’t because he lied about who he was. And that is in stark contrast to his likely opponent in November.
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AT Least at the important votes he stuck with the GOP. Considering it was the seat held by Kennedy I think we did pretty good. He was the first shot heard from the GOP and I remember it was something to remember. We almost defeated Obamacare.
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Exaclty Bunkerville, he was with us much more than he was against us and if Warren is elected we can rest assured that she will NEVER be with us. Brown was the warning Obama should have heeded, if he had perhaps the Republicans wouldn’t have won an historic amount of House seats in 2010.
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Well put. As close to “The shot heard round the world”
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I have to wonder who is the biggest lier; Warren or Harvard. She lied to get the job and Harvard was in on it. That’s my bet.
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That is something that I hadn’t thought about, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case.
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Okay, you know I am from Oklahoma. For the record, I can’t believe our great state produced someone like Elizabeth Warren. It’s a miracle Obama didn’t force her upon us as the head of the Consumer Protection Agency set up by Dodd-Frank. He would have, if he thought he could have gotten away with it. Trust me, she was the one who came up with that idea and we certainly didn’t need her leading the charge.
As for her Native American lineage, I would have to get my card out to find the exact number, but I am a very small amount of Cherokee Indian. (A near full blood Cherokee told me once that he would have to take my card away if I got a nose bleed, but that’s another story.) I never once considered using my honorable mention for my gain. Elizabeth Warren should at least be honest about herself, but she is a liberal, after all.
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I actually did think about you Larry while I was writing this, don’t worry I won’t hold it against your state. 🙂
She actually did oversee the TARP program and was an advisory to the Treasury for Obama, so he did have plans for her.
I’d like to hear that whole story sometime!
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Steve and Larry, we all have someone that comes from our state that we really don’t like to claim. We are stuck with Obama here in Illinois….oh well. It would be nice if when he is out of office in 2012 that he chooses another place to live. We have enough corruption here without him coming back.
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Obama, that’s a tough one! I have moonbat Jeanne Shaheen as one of my senators and before that NH gave you Paul Hodes and ultra-moonbat Carol Shea-Porter. Luckily we rid ourselves of those two and hopefully Shaheen will be next.
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It is becoming even more evident that the liberal’s new motto is “A lie is even better than the truth, if it will advance the agenda”.
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That is for sure! And Obama knows he can get away with it because the media never calls him on it.
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