posted February 07, 2019 02:35 PM            

So, after telling America she had never used her "alleged" Indian heritage to advance her career or profited from her claims, it turns out she listed her race as American Indian on an application to the Texas Bar Association.

posted February 07, 2019 02:45 PM            

When Elizabeth Warren was outed as a fake Native American (specifically, Cherokee), I thought it was comical, but not otherwise newsworthy.

According to Elizabeth Warren (and Harvard), she claimed to be Native American when applying to go to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, as well as when applying for a professorship at Harvard, but did not benefit from those claims . Given that the only purpose for asking someone’s ethnicity on an application is to allow preferential treatment, there is no question that Elizabeth Warren was at least trying to get preferential treatment. Harvard immediately championed Mrs. Warren around as the first Professor of Color in Harvard Law School’s history (and put her on a diversity board), making it look like her Native American status was a major factor her being hired (in spite of their claims otherwise), and Elizabeth Warren certainly benefitted from her Native American status after having been hired.

Still, Harvard hired her in 1995 (more than twenty years ago), and I initially did not think it was a very important issue. I thought it was funny how easily Donald Trump could poke fun at Elizabeth Warren, and I noticed how the mainstream media kept trying to spin Donald Trump’s criticism of Elizabeth Warren as being racist, rather than calling Elizabeth Warren’s case of ethnic fraud an act of racism (talk about bias!), but at the same time, I saved my criticism for the media. I was not going to pay much attention to a case of fraud more than twenty years old…

Then Brett Kavanaugh happened.

posted February 07, 2019 04:25 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Well, well, well, if that isn't a smoke signal, I don't know what is.

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posted February 07, 2019 06:41 PM            

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Originally posted by BlueRoamer:
Trump pretends to be for the white working class ..... give megacuts to corporate America

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rest of it is bulllshit

imagine saying the working class will lose their social security and "the false threat that is Mexicans" in the same sentence.

posted February 07, 2019 07:29 PM            

Guilt ?

Why ?

A natural connection to something beyond our common society ?

posted February 07, 2019 08:50 PM            

Heap big smoke![/B][/QUOTE]

Ouch, is that not a form of racism ?

posted February 07, 2019 09:27 PM            

Sign sign everywhere
a sign
a signal!

posted February 07, 2019 09:40 PM            

And while Affirmative Action does allot a percentage of places to minorities that hardly translates to Natives being preferred to white girls. Especially as females are one of the groups included.

Pire:

posted February 08, 2019 07:56 AM            

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Originally posted by pire:
Why would a native american be more "allowed" ?

Guilt ?

Why ?

A natural connection to something beyond our common society ?

And... as a side note, why try to discredit her ? Jwhop ?

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Im not sure I underatand your meaning here, pire.

posted February 08, 2019 07:58 AM            

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Pire:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_actio [/B]

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Speaking of archaic lol
maybe try "protected minority" or "equality of outcome"

posted February 08, 2019 11:54 AM            

According to The Conversation, 26.7 of the new Congress will be non-white; as a share of the legislature, there will be more Black and Latinx lawmakers in Washington than ever before, while the number of Asian-Americans in Congress will hold steady.

In 2019, 127 (106D, 21R) women hold seats in the United States Congress, comprising 23.7% of the 535 members; 25 women (25%) serve in the U.S. Senate, and 102 women(23.4%) serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

And TWO native americans! (that's almost 4/10%)

You're right, shura, things are getting out of hand! Our culture is being adulterated by the visibility of people many of whose roots here predate the majority of the white population's.

Affirmative Action turned out to have flaws! Unlike Jim Crow, and a hundred years of white-only immigrants, its so unfair!

posted February 08, 2019 10:57 PM            

I doesn't appear your familiar with outcome equality standards. Read up and get back to me on that, hon.

Our culture is being adulterated by the visibility of people many of whose roots here predate the majority of the white population's.

say again? who?

Jim Crow was reactionary and defensive and absolutely flawed, yeah. Pre 1965 US immigration laws were the norm (still are in many nations) and perfectly successful.

posted February 09, 2019 11:42 PM            

I don't think so juni.

posted February 09, 2019 11:48 PM            

..eating lotus root chips...

posted February 10, 2019 12:08 AM            

and chocolate!