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"Sacaja-Whiner": Elizabeth Warren and the Oppression Olympics

Denise67 Wrote: May 02, 2012 12:40 PM

Does anyone know what percentage of white Americans have some known Amerindian ancestry? Or what percentage of black Americans do? With racial inter-mixing so common, it seems likely that having an Amerindian ancestor may be the rule rather than the exception.

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"Sacaja-Whiner": Elizabeth Warren and the Oppression Olympics

Elizabeth Warren is the Harvard law professor running for Senate in Massachusetts as a Democratic populist-progressive champion. But don't call her "Elizabeth Warren." Call her "Pinocchio-hontas," "Chief Full-of-Lies," "Running Joke" or "Sacaja-whiner."

Warren has claimed questionable Native American minority status for years to reap career "diversity" benefits. Now, Cherokee leaders, campaign rival GOP Sen. Scott Brown and an army of Twitter detractors have called her out for gaming the racial-preference system. Live by identity politics, die by identity politics.

The Boston Herald reported last Friday that Harvard administrators "prominently touted Warren's Native American background ... in an effort to bolster their diversity hiring...

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