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In reply to the discussion: To all those who still want to pound on Warren for her family history that turned out to be legend-- [View all]WhiskeyGrinder
(22,326 posts)25. There's a lot going on here.
I am so very sorry you were raised by wolves and had no family to tell you entertaining bedtime stories to give you something to live up to -- or even to live down.
The ones I see objecting to the way Warren talks about her family history are those who are living their lives as Native Americans -- many of whom have family who were punished for telling "entertaining bedtime stories" about their family history or cultural legends, so your wording here comes across as unnecessarily cruel.
The myth of the Native American ancestor is very common among white Americans.
Yep, and it's often used as a weapon against people whose identity is NA.
It's a badge of belonging to the land, I think.
What do you mean by "belonging"?
As long as the believer isn't trying to access some set-aside reserved for tribal members (and tribes decide who belongs, by the way) where is the harm?
Warren herself apologized for the harm she caused, which was to confuse the idea of what tribal citizenship and sovereignty mean.
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To all those who still want to pound on Warren for her family history that turned out to be legend-- [View all]
Hekate
Oct 2019
OP
for me your final point is the most important. not just trump, i see democrats using republicans
Lib 4 Life
Oct 2019
#2
This is a good post. My great-great grandmother Cassandra was supposed to be
PatrickforO
Oct 2019
#3
It's definitely possible, it's just that a few generations back puts me at Ellis Island
AdamGG
Oct 2019
#61
Not sure how you figure. I can trace my family back to the 1600s in Europe.
PatrickforO
Oct 2019
#64
Here's The Trump Family History (Bookmark This For Next Time Pocahontas Comes Up)
DrFunkenstein
Oct 2019
#10
I want his entire clan of grifters broken down so far they have to go back to the ancestral Yukon...
Hekate
Oct 2019
#41
Love it about the Neanderthal strain! My mom the genealogist & the entire rest of the family...
Hekate
Oct 2019
#32
When DNA tests are mentioned in relation to Native American ancestory it makes me cringe a bit
Major Nikon
Oct 2019
#21
You make many good points here. And another is that even siblings, other than identical twins,
pnwmom
Oct 2019
#22
My daughter's significant other has a Hispanic name, dark eyes, and black hair. Deeply tanned....
Hekate
Oct 2019
#39
Yep -- and did you see the thread in this forum today with poster after poster going after her...
Hekate
Oct 2019
#37
Several someones, ranging from "concerned" to "shocked," & it persists. Irks me every time...
Hekate
Oct 2019
#57
Yes. But Trump's slurs & lies entered the public sphere, & now we've got people ...
Hekate
Oct 2019
#63
"stop letting goddammed Trump set the goddam narrative about our candidates. Just stop it."
TidalWave46
Oct 2019
#70