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In reply to the discussion: In defense of Elizabeth Warren....personal experience [View all]Peacetrain
(24,248 posts)71. Brilliant!!
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what pisses me off is that we as a country decide things like tax rates on the basis of this crap.
unblock
Feb 2019
#1
White people's ancestry HAS been infinitely more important than any non-Whites
Caliman73
Feb 2019
#68
Yes, and his supporters did the woo-woo yell and hatchet-wave gesture at her. Nice, right?
Hekate
Feb 2019
#65
I was told we had Asian ancestry. I believed it because....my mom was a Korean woman.
LexVegas
Feb 2019
#10
I think it was intentionally misleading. Her parents aren't native, she knows nothing of
SweetieD
Feb 2019
#12
she NEVER claimed to be Native American - on edit, I was not correct on this point
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#14
Should Obama's mother described herself as black? Like on applications under race put black?
SweetieD
Feb 2019
#23
what you seem to be suggesting is if Obama was asked what his heritage was
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#27
It has Race: _________ and she wrote in American Indian (no multiple checkbox stuff)
progree
Feb 2019
#34
Google it. It came out a few days ago. Both the application and her response to it.
SweetieD
Feb 2019
#24
She knew it wouldn't benefit her. My husband was filling out forms in the same era,
pnwmom
Feb 2019
#43
As someone who's more that 5/8 Ojibwe, I don't think she intentionally misled anybody. I'm much
catbyte
Feb 2019
#53
My grandmother was one half Crow. Born in Lodge Grass, Montana, in the 1880's.
panader0
Feb 2019
#19
She never claimed to be native american - on edit, that's not true, thanks for the info
ProfessorPlum
Feb 2019
#22
I think the issue is not that she thought that she had Native American ancestry
frazzled
Feb 2019
#32
Just because NA doesnt show up in a DNA test doesn't mean you don't have NA ancestry...
WePurrsevere
Feb 2019
#42
Not for ancestry. People have gotten different results from different companies
IronLionZion
Feb 2019
#54
The reason I cannot get bent over Elizabeth Warren's DNA snafu is . . . personal experience
peggysue2
Feb 2019
#61