Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is white. She’s whiter than Nikki Haley, whiter than Bernie Sanders, and whiter than Wonder Bread. Her career-long lie that she had enough Native American ancestry to qualify as Harvard Law’s “first woman [professor] of color” finally caught up with her when she unwisely shared her genetic testing results with the world, revealing that she is possibly 1/1024th Native American.
It is now abundantly clear that a privileged white woman, at one point in her career, exploited the legacy and suffering of Native Americans for personal gain.
That is racism. At minimum, it’s racial exploitation. And now Warren is yet again trying to ride of the coattails of actual people of color to score cheap political shots.
On Warren’s presidential exploratory committee website, she slams Republican inquiries into her heritage as racist. In other words, having appropriated a culture that is not hers, she now wants to conflate with the Obama birther conspiracy theorists anyone who investigates or questions her manipulative lies about her heritage.
“Show us your papers. Release your birth certificate. It’s all part of the right’s disgusting effort to use race-baiting and fear-mongering to distract our country and divide our people while they rig the system for the rich and powerful,” her website states. “The real story of Native American communities is about resilience to reclaim their history and traditions. It’s about pride and determination of people who refuse to let their languages fade away and their cultures die.”
The attacks on Warren aren’t about a Native American reclaiming her history. It’s about yet another white person stealing from Native Americans — this time stealing their identity.
Warren’s conflation of her deception to the actual racist and fact-free campaign waged against Obama is intentionally obtuse, fallacious, and morally bankrupt.
