Ethnicity

Don ' t get me wrong. I love Elizabeth Warren. She has spent her distinguished academic and political career fighting for justice and equity. She sees right through the BS thrown up in justification for plutocracy and talks to people in plain language with no apologies for her progressive beliefs. I think she ' d make a great president.But . . .I do think that her repeated claims on various official documents that she has Native American heritage -- and even, on her Texas bar application that sheis straight up Native American -- are very strange behavior that she has not sufficiently explored and explained in public. She says that according to family lore she has a Native American ancestor at some number of great great great grandparents, and that ' s why. She even went so far as to get a DNA test which confirms that it might just be true.No. Just no. That you believe some distant ancestor who you know nothing about and cannot even name was Albanian does not make you in any sense Albanian. I believe I have said something before about the ads for a commercial DNA testing company. In one of them, roughly (and I may have this backwards, doesn ' t matter) a guy says " I always thought I was German, " and he ' s in leiderhosen and drinking a Lowenbrau with his schnitzel. " It turns out we ' re Scottish! " and now he ' s wearing a kilt and dancing the highland fling and learning to play the bagpipes.What undoubtedly happened (assuming this is not entirely fictitious) is that at som...
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