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Yesterday, The Boston Herald reported that Harvard University acknowledged they have one Native American professor in their faculty but would not say if that faculty member is Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren. (H/T Michael Warren of The Weekly Standard - obviously no relation).
If the faculty member in question isn’t Warren then Harvard would have simply issued a denial. But they didn’t which leads me to believe that Warren is the only “Native American” faculty member at Harvard. Well, having high cheekbones makes you no more Native American than liking corned beef on rye makes you Jewish.
Now some people might ask, “What’s the big deal here?” But if Warren has misrepresented herself as Native American then how else has she misrepresented herself? This is an entirely reasonable question for Massachusetts voters to ask.
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jay mayer| 5.5.12 @ 2:45PM
Does character count for anything ? Oh How silly of me , this is Mass. where the one senator was guilty of vehicular manslaughter and the other ,Kerry, is a tax cheat . Cherokee Liz will fit right in .
Bob Grant| 5.5.12 @ 3:18PM
Cherokee Liz. Heh, Heh.
Dixie Pixie| 5.5.12 @ 7:15PM
Try “Squaw Drooling Weasel” or “Dances with Preppies”
TexasMom2012| 5.6.12 @ 5:49AM
Dances with Marxists
spike59| 5.7.12 @ 6:21AM
Spreading Bull
Fauxcohontas
RJ| 5.5.12 @ 3:12PM
Affirmative Action, like most government programs is easily "gamed." It was meant to help people who had suffered discrimination because of their ethnicity, but the door was open for others to take advantage of it. Companies under pressure to comply with government quotas and "guidelines" are quick to identify Elizabeth Warrens as Indians. Let's be committed to fighting against ethnic discrimination, but isn't it time to think of each person as a unique individual and not as a member, or a 1/32 member, of an ethic group?
Bob Grant| 5.5.12 @ 3:14PM
Is Harvard covering for Warren?
You even have to ask?
If she needs to be "covered", she will be "covered". No question about it.
They've covered for Barry, Gates, and Bell.
Anonna| 5.5.12 @ 4:24PM
I think it's possible that Warren believed that her family was American Indian in part and never felt any need to prove that this was true. She checked off the box because it was what she believed about herself. Interesting, isn't it, that Harvard asked for no proof? I guess that would have been considered insulting. How many deliberate liars are there out there gaming the system with assertions of useful ethnicity? So what do we do? Introduce "proof" requirements or recognize that students should be taught by the best professors and this means hiring by qualifications and experience, not filling in little dots on a diversity chart.
Bill| 5.5.12 @ 5:03PM
"Queen of Narcocism" Elizabeth Warren's ancestry goes back to Old Soviet Russia and Germany, and I mean that Lenin and Marxicst. Scary!
TexasMom2012| 5.6.12 @ 5:53AM
I'm a quarter French, quarter English, quarter Dutch, an eighth Irish, and an eighth Scot... Cannot be many of us out there! Somewhere in that mess is a great great grandmother who was also Jewish... So I must be some kind of a minority???
PCC| 5.5.12 @ 5:25PM
I like corned beef on rye. Can I have my affirmative action job now?
Bill| 5.5.12 @ 5:39PM
Noop, that job was taken by an uneducated illegal AMIGO.
WL| 5.6.12 @ 2:57AM
Any comments concerning race...seem to attract BILLY THE BIGOT......
We all have strong feelings about some of those issues...
But ol' Billy the Bigot can smell a comment about race from ten websites away!!!
PattyMor| 5.5.12 @ 6:39PM
Don't be too hard on poor ole' Elizabeth. Maybe she just going after the Pocahantas vote.
Occam's Tool| 5.5.12 @ 10:03PM
As I think I have mentioned, my magnificent 9 year old daughter Rebekah is a full blooded Mayan Indian from Guatemala, and my son's mother is a verified Mayan as well. (We have complete dossiers, Rick.)
But they would both fall under Hispanics, as opposed to Native Americans. And THIS bullshit artists tries to pull it off on 1/32 Cherokee or less? Hell, my wife, who is as Pale White as they come, is 1/32nd Cherokee! This is BULLSHIT!
bobmontgomery| 5.5.12 @ 11:41PM
At some point, don't you think we've had enough of this whole "harvard" thing? The parade of nincompoops coming out of that joint reminds us of the jokers leading the circus parade, and media and wall street put them up on some kind of pedestal. We have institutions of much higher learning all over the country. This whole "East Coast" thing is getting to be just a little bit much.
You want Progressivism? I'll show you progress - 40 other states stretching out 3,000 miles and 200 million more people. I am sooo over Harvard.
PCC| 5.6.12 @ 7:35PM
Right on, Bob. Of 9 Supreme Court justices, 7 went to Harvard and the other two went to Yale. There are hundreds of other law schools and thousands upon thousands of otherwise highly-qualified jurists. These Ivy League elites are are in love with themselves and look out for each other to the exclusion of the rest of the citizenry. They can all go to hell, as far as I'm concerned.
bop berrigan| 5.6.12 @ 5:14AM
Democrat Pols in new England seem to have a habit of embellishing their record. Remember the Gov of CT, Richard Blumenthal, the bogus vet of Nam.
Marc Jeric| 5.6.12 @ 12:43PM
We have two kinds of profiling - legal and illegal.
1) Legal profiling: affirmative action, inclusiveness, multiculturalism, diversity...
2) Illegal profiling: finding Islamist terrorists where 100% of them are young 18-30 year old Muslim males; and finding murderers among black males 18-30 years old who kill 70% of all victims (some 14,000 per year), and of whom 90% or 12,600 are other black males.
Marc Jeric| 5.6.12 @ 12:46PM
So kamarada Warren is proud that one of her great-great-great grandfathers violated an Indian maiden 200 hundred years ago?
JimH| 5.6.12 @ 2:46PM
Have Paul revere and the Raiders given permission for her to use Indian Reservation as the campaign theme music?
Mike 3/505| 5.6.12 @ 3:56PM
I was thinking a Cher hit....but Warren is only 1/32, not 50%....heheheheheheheh
albert constantine jr.| 5.6.12 @ 9:19PM
I'll have to work on the Half Breed lyrical update, but here is my attempt to put words to that first idea by JimH, sung of course to the tune of the hit by Paul Revere and the Raiders (featuring Mark Lindsey) "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee)":
They took the whole Cherokee Nation
Stuck us on this reservation
With Andrew Jackson in the lead
Taught us all about their greed
The Supreme Court was ignored
And our lands won’t be restored
And though the Trail of Tears was hard
It now leads to Harvard Yard
(Chorus)
Cherokee People Cherokee Tribe
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You know they moved our tribe out west
Oklahoma where we rest
And then much sooner then we planned
Came more white men to our land
On our wheat and corn they fed
And with our women sometimes bred
And took away our red skin tones
But were left with high cheekbones
(Chorus)
Cherokee People Cherokee Tribe
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They took the whole Cherokee Nation
Turned us into a corporation
We walked away with Second Prize
And turned it into a gambling franchise
And if our blood you have a fraction
Qualify for affirmative action
And on our tribal rolls install
The reason you teach Harvard Law
(Chorus)
Cherokee People Cherokee Tribe
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To Andy Jackson we say “How”
How do you like your party now, party now, party now, party now
Debra| 5.6.12 @ 9:50PM
Thank you Mr. Constantine! I tip my hat to your political parody. I've been down today but this has brought a smile to my face.
albert constantine jr.| 5.6.12 @ 10:15PM
I am glad I could bring a chuckle to you.
Aaron Goldstein| 5.6.12 @ 11:49PM
Good lyrics. Well, I see how you get your Kicks.
albert constantine jr.| 5.7.12 @ 7:36AM
and they keep gettin' harder to find...
JimH| 5.7.12 @ 8:07AM
Because you can't get them on Route 66 anymore?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.7.12 @ 1:17PM
If you ever plan to motor west...
Greg| 5.6.12 @ 4:34PM
Ha! I have Melungeon ancestors. Maybe I should get some freebies.
Bill Carson | 5.7.12 @ 8:33AM
Several tribes objected to the Cape Cod wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. Former Sen. Edward Kennedy served notice that the fight over a controversial wind-turbine project off Cape Cod was far from over.
Native American rituals and beliefs have been an obstacle to federal approval of the nations first offshore wind farm.
If Professor Elizabeth Warren is Native American why didn't she come forward to help the religious beliefs of the Massachusetts Native Americans? Elizabeth needs to read about the Legend of Moshup the Giant which is an ancient creation story from the Native American oral tradition....
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