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

talltexanoilfieldtrash Wrote: May 02, 2012 10:26 AM

On one side of my family I have an ancestor, that we can not trace any further back than 1790 when he came here as an indentured servant to a ship builder, and later headed into the unexplored parts of Arkansas, who married a Navaho squaw, about 5 generations back. On the other, I can trace back to nobility in 1640 Scotland. Does that make me a 'dukes mixture'?

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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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