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

Madison6 Wrote: May 02, 2012 3:34 PM

My dad's side goes back to 1630 and mother's to 1737. Probably some interaction with the natives, but nothing documented that I can find. I, while I find Warren's actions deplorable and typical of those who really don't much care about how they get where they're going just that they get there, proudly categorize myself as a Native American every chance I get. I was born in the US (my birth city has a Mohican name; does that count for anything?) and I am a proud American, ergo I AM a Native American -- just not of Amerind descent.

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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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