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Is Elizabeth Warren a "Woman of Color"?

Does being 1/512th to 1/1024th a minority make you a Person of Color?

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Cardinal said:
Wow. Your posts have degenerated to the same level of inanity as those trump supporters who join less than a week ago, choose no avatars and spam every thread with grammatically-tortured one-liners.
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LOL, I guess we can take that as a "no". :)

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hanger4 said:
*I said she did not claim to be a woman of color.*

Actually she did, she listed herself as a minority in the AALS.
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No, she listed herself as a minority of Native American descent, nobody could claim she said she was a woman of color. Just look at her, she is about as white as white gets.
 
Peter King said:
No, she listed herself as a minority of Native American descent, nobody could claim she said she was a woman of color. Just look at her, she is about as white as white gets.
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*minority of Native American descent*

Exactly, a person of color.
 
Jack Hays said:
It already is. The denunciation by Cherokee leadership opens her to the charge of cultural appropriation for personal gain. That accusation would be laughed at by Repubs, but will resonate with a certain type of Dem. I suspect the staffs of both Kamala Harris and Cory Booker are preparing for the issue.
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By that rationale Trump would already be dust since so many Republican "never Trumpers" have spoken out against him. But that's not really quite how it turned out, though, has it?

You're engaging in wishful thinking about how the Democrats will eat their own while completely ignoring how the Right has gathered behind Trump to the point that any resistance to him has almost entirely disintegrated. But no, the Cherokees have denounced Warren's results so that must mean the Democratic Party is about to catch on fire and explode.
 
Cardinal said:
By that rationale Trump would already be dust since so many Republican "never Trumpers" have spoken out against him. But that's not really quite how it turned out, though, has it?

You're engaging in wishful thinking about how the Democrats will eat their own while completely ignoring how the Right has gathered behind Trump to the point that any resistance to him has almost entirely disintegrated. But no, the Cherokees have denounced Warren's results so that must mean the Democratic Party is about to catch on fire and explode.
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Repubs and Dems are different tribes. Trump is the outcome of Repub self-destruction, not its refutation. The party I knew no longer exists.

As for the Dems, the energy we've heard so much about is driven to a large extent by people for whom "cultural appropriation" is a real thing. And Kamala Harris and Cory "Spartacus" Booker want very​ much to be President. They'll use it.
 
Answer to the Poll question....

Only if you are Elizabeth Warren.

What color people are is insignificant to Native Americans. The U.S. does classify NA(s) as minorities, and Warren listed herself as a minority. She lied through her teeth when putting her name on Law school minority directories.
 
veritas1 said:
She kept putting her supposed Native American ancestry on her applications so, whether she benefited or not doesn't matter. What matters is that she thought it significant enough to mention when, in fact, it was utterly insignificant. Also, oral family history is fraught with pitfalls. What's important is the science. Or does the left suddenly discount science when it comes to their own making claims?
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What applications did she "keep putting them on"?
 
Why does she keep pushing this narrative? It's just making her look silly. She could defuse it all by saying, "I have possibly 1/1000th NA ancestry so it was simply incorrect to claim I'm a minority. My bad." Then move on.
 
Peter King said:
No, she listed herself as a minority of Native American descent
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She claimed to be "Cherokee". She claimed to be a "minority". She didn't claim to "have an ancestor, somewhere, back there, you know".

She claimed to be a woman of color. So have you voted on whether or not she is?
 
Jack Hays said:
Repubs and Dems are different tribes. Trump is the outcome of Repub self-destruction, not its refutation. The party I knew no longer exists.

As for the Dems, the energy we've heard so much about is driven to a large extent by people for whom "cultural appropriation" is a real thing. And Kamala Harris and Cory "Spartacus" Booker want very​ much to be President. They'll use it.
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Yeah, but look at how he's acting. Getting Trump to attack her on this issue is probably the best means of immunizing her to these charges from her own base. They'll defend the indefensible if it's Trump attacking it, and no one wants to be "saying what Trump says", which will inevitably be at least an implicit part of her counter.
 
Re: Is Elizabeth Warren a "Woman of Color"?

cpwill said:
If people think that having a Native American parent makes you 1/1024th Native American, no wonder we can't get them to care about the debt.
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Ignoring daily Trump lies to drill down on a ancestry claim... no wonder we can't get the Republicants to care about the new debt spiral they set up during a time of good economic conditions... :roll:

(oh and having an ancestor of any ethnic/racial back round DOES make you a certain percentage of that ethnicity)

hmmm bad at basic math... I think I see why the Republicants can't balance the budget with control of all branches of government and a strong economy... :peace
 
cpwill said:
She claimed to be "Cherokee". She claimed to be a "minority". She didn't claim to "have an ancestor, somewhere, back there, you know".

She claimed to be a woman of color. So have you voted on whether or not she is?
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I did vote, you can check it yourself what I answered.
 
cpwill said:
Yeah, but look at how he's acting. Getting Trump to attack her on this issue is probably the best means of immunizing her to these charges from her own base. They'll defend the indefensible if it's Trump attacking it, and no one wants to be "saying what Trump says", which will inevitably be at least an implicit part of her counter.
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We shall see.
 
cpwill said:
Yeah, but look at how he's acting. Getting Trump to attack her on this issue is probably the best means of immunizing her to these charges from her own base. They'll defend the indefensible if it's Trump attacking it, and no one wants to be "saying what Trump says", which will inevitably be at least an implicit part of her counter.
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I can't imagine that such strategy could possibly have been intentional on her part. It was just a massive unforced error that she honestly thought would help her directly, on its face.

(Why she thought it would, who knows?)
 
cpwill said:
Does being 1/512th - 1/1024th minority make one a "Person of Color?
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No it doesn't. Having a ancestor of color from a 120 to 200 years ago does not make someone a person of color.
 
cpwill said:
Does being 1/512th - 1/1024th minority make one a "Person of Color?
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If the person is a democrat claiming to be someone he or she is not then democrats will fight to the death to honor that preposterous claim, whether it is about the sex of the individual or the race of the individual seeking recognition as being something they are not. Elizabeth Warren wanted recognition as an American Indian, but she is not any more American Indian than Rachel Dolezal is black.
 
cpwill said:
Does being 1/512th - 1/1024th minority make one a "Person of Color?
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I believe this question is one of honesty on the part of Warren.

She did not particularly indicate that she was only a "Person of Color".

She indicated that she is a Cherokee Indian.

Real Cherokee's have taken issue with her claim. Her "expert" says she has very narrow justification to claim heritage to being either Mexican or Peruvian.

As with so many assertions made for political reasons, her claim seems to lay somewhere between being an exaggeration at the least and an outright lie at the most.

An honest attempt at being truthful or accurate has very little to do with her claim.
 
Re: Is Elizabeth Warren a "Woman of Color"?

Kal'Stang said:
Actually she has said that her dad's parents were against his marriage to her mom because she was Native American.



Has nothing to do with her racial makeup. Has to do with the claims she has made in order to attempt to take advantage of something that she has no moral right to take advantage of.
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Ms. Warren won her senate contest with Scott Brown who first created this attempt at character assassination. There has never been any proof turned up after years of conservative operative digging that she ever sought advantage in employment or college admission. One of the schools she attended used her claim of Native American ancestry for its own purposes to increase its diversity bonafides. The only claim she has ever made is that she has Native American ancestry. She has now taken a DNA test that strongly supports her claim. Would it have ever made a difference for the attack purposes of your side if stronger supporting evidence had turned up? No it wouldn't. Would it ever make any difference to Trump for attack purposes? No it wouldn't. Intelligent people will find their own path to deciding. ALL of these sorts of character assassination trivial pursuits are aimed at the low hanging fruit of one party or another. I certainly didn't believe that Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of JFK and I sure as hell don't like Ted Cruz.
 
Re: Is Elizabeth Warren a "Woman of Color"?

Myview said:
Ms. Warren won her senate contest with Scott Brown who first created this attempt at character assassination.
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:snorts: if this is an attempt at character assassination, then the assassin is Mrs Warren herself.
 
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