I’m sorry, I just can’t forget that Elizabeth Warren claimed to be Native American. I just can’t trust someone who reached that level of peak whiteness.
Her mother told her when she was younger that she was, she wrote an essay on her heritage for college based primarily on stories from her mother.
Last October she did release a report on a DNA analysis that was said to show a pure Native American ancestor appeared in her ancestry “in the range of six to 10 generations ago.”
All in all, they were able to conclude that she does have native american ancestry, not as much as initially believed, but nonetheless an adequate amount. We need to take another step forward and keep in mind that genetic testing/analysis for ancestry has only been possible in the last 10 years (three years for consumer markets). She wrote her paper in college, and believed her mother all of her life That is why she said that.
Ancestry is a hard thing, especially prior to modern technologies as they were all based on stories being passed down to descendants ad nauseam, not on anything substantial like we have today.
Just have to add:
Elizabeth Warren DID NOT claim to be Native American. She reported that she had some Native American ancestry. Those are 2 very different things. She didn’t make a big deal out of it. Trump, otoh, did by calling her POCAHONTAS. Which one do you really think was behaving poorly?
It’s not like apologize was all she did:
She appeared at the National Indian Women Honor luncheon a few months ago to support a Native Leader from Massachusetts, who was winning an award, and she got a standing ovation.
She has also been working on legislation with Rep. Deb Haaland (New Mexico), the first Native American woman to serve in Congress that seeks to address funding shortfalls in tribal lands.
Even her critics admit she’s addressed the issue, to an extent, well:
Julian Brave Noisecat, a Native American journalist and activist who has criticized Warren previously, has said: “Based on my conversations with tribal leaders and advocates, the consensus position is that she’s one of the strongest allies of Indian country in Congress. She has good relationships with tribes across the board. And I think that’s relevant.”
Mr. Noisecat also said the ancestry matter had become double-edged: “More than any other Democratic presidential candidate, Ms. Warren has caused the most upset among Native American communities, but has also probably done the most outreach and is more vocal on issues that effect tribal citizens than other presidential candidates.”
María Urbina, the national political director of the progressive group Indivisible, said she and other liberal leaders were encouraged by Ms. Warren’s decision to apologize. Going forward, Ms. Urbina said she expected liberal activists to take their cues from Native leaders on whether Ms. Warren had adequately addressed their concerns.
“Native leaders and native people should be the ones to affirm — or not affirm — whether her record shows if she’s been an ally,” Ms. Urbina said. “That’s absolutely important.”
As we move forward towards the 2020 elections, just be careful about blinding following statements like OP makes. You guys remember those popular social-justice blogs which were Russian spies right? The one/two sentence denouements of Clinton, which sounded catchy and legit but in reality were trivial errors.
i think one of the reasons everyone keeps making stupid fucking posts about the London attack against the two women is because y’all forgot real life exists
y’all forgot that other people don’t care about the differences between lesbians and bi women. y’all were so busying arguing about monosexual privilege and het-passing/straight-adjacent or whatever the fuck privilege that you forgot we’re basically the same in the eyes of non-lgbt people
It wouldn’t have made a difference if both women had actually been lesbians. It wouldn’t have made a difference if both of the women had been bisexual. The reason behind the assault would have been the same: love between two women has been so fetishized and objectified that the men on the bus felt it was their right to force these women to play out their fantasy.
Lesbians and bi women alike suffer from attacks like this. Painting it as an attack against a specific label and not our community as a whole is not how we move on from this. It’s not how we grow.
“Bi women shouldn’t say xyz about this attack” “lesbians need to remember xyz”. Maybe you all need to take a step back and realize this isn’t weird online discourse. Enough.
so a radfem/terf was just on this post so one important thing to add:
The bisexual woman, Chris, who was injured in the assault specifically stated that we should focus on uplifting the most vulnerable of our community, including women of color and trans women AND she donated to charities that aid trans folk.
You can’t claim to care about the violence wlw face while excluding trans lesbians and trans bisexual women.
Saw an op-ed that was on the surface a complaint about kids not wanting to take on family heirlooms but read like an elegy to dying traditions. The hardest part was the anxiety without recognizing that they didn’t pave the way for the decisions they assumed their kids would make.
(This is written entirely within the dominant white/western culture - about traditions that have neglectful stewardship rather than those actively suppressed)
The anxiety makes sense. You’re seeing, too late to do anything about it, that there’s no foundation - no space - for the traditions you expected to pass on. Your kids _can’t_ take your mom’s fine china. So now instead of enjoying what you have you worry about its future.
I see a pattern in these op-eds though - a pattern in what’s left unsaid. There were responsibilities tied to these traditions. You collectively assumed they _would_ be passed along. So collectively, what did you do to ensure those traditions _could_ be passed along?
Op-eds never speak for everyone, but it’s worth acknowledging the pattern in what speech is deemed worth sharing widely. And in this particular pattern, there’s an answer: that answer looks like “nothing.”
You want the china passed down but your kids have no room in their rentals. You want grandkids but your kids don’t have the financial stability. You want that cross-country RV neverending road trip but you’ve had decades of wanting lower taxes more than you wanted infrastructure.
The bleak outlook for traditions is a direct result of the unmaintained foundations for them.
The second best time is always now - if it’s important enough to op-ed about, what are you willing to change to get it back? What will you give up or re-prioritize?
I kinda think that world-defining assumptions are always gonna break without maintenance. So rather than getting mad at whoever’s next for not carrying on the norms we didn’t do upkeep on, when it’s my turn, I hope I’m introspective enough to help instead of externalize & blame.
