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Elizabeth Warren is running in Massachusetts as the Democrat candidate against Republican Scott Brown for old Ted Kennedy’s seat. Last week she became the joke of the week when it was discovered she had checked the box, Native American, on her application to Harvard law School. Howie Carr of the Boston Herald took a shot:
There’s an old saying in the Indian Nation: When accused of being a fake Indian, go on the warpath.
And so we have Granny Warren, the carpetbagging Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate doubling down after being unable to produce a scintilla of evidence to back up her claims to a piece of the racial-preference racket.
Evidence? She don’t need no stinkin’ evidence. She’s got her family “lore.”
She’s “proud” to be an Indian. It’s the kind of fact-free, how-dare-you defense only a Beautiful Person could get away with.
This story was custom made for political theater; the jokes keep rolling in…
“Alas, the actual original marriage license does not list Great-Great-Great-Gran’ma as Cherokee, but let’s cut Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Crockagawea Warren some slack here. She couldn’t be black. She would if she could, but she couldn’t. But she could be 1/32nd Cherokee, and maybe get invited to a luncheon with others of her kind — “people who are like I am,” 31/32nds white, and they can all sit around celebrating their diversity together. She is a testament to America’s melting pot, composite pot, composting pot, whatever.
Others have chimed in with Indian names: Pinocchio-hontas, She Will Sioux, Stands with a Writ, Chief Full-of-Lies, and Running Joke.
Look behind the political game of comical gotcha and you will find a serious theme, affirmative action.
The Daily Mail bothers to pull back the curtain of mirth to expose the dirt behind the smirks:
Elizabeth Warren’s purported Native American heritage had once been touted by her employer, Harvard Law School, as a proof of diversity at the Ivy League institution, but now the law professor’s roots are being called into question.
According to the Boston Herald, Warren’s campaign staff failed to produce any documents supporting the claim that the Democratic candidate for the US Senate from Massachusetts indeed had ancestors on her mother’s side from the Cherokee and Delaware tribes.
Back in the 1990s, when Harvard Law came under fire for having weak diversity-hiring record and a faculty dominated by white male professors, the school widely publicized Warren’s alleged Native American roots.
In a 1996 article, the school paper the Harvard Crimson quoted a Harvard Law spokesperson as saying that ‘of 71 current Law School professors and assistant professors, 11 are women, five are black, one is Native American and one is Hispanic.’
Elizabeth Warren and the Harvard School of Law have been gaming the very system they purport to take seriously as progressive elites. Seth Mandel writing in Commentary weighs in:
…Warren is playing an important role in our political discourse: she is the ghost of liberalism future. Warren’s alleged use of affirmative action, if true, would have to be the most egregious abuse of the system at the expense of minorities we’ve seen yet. Elizabeth Warren is, as a white woman, statistically speaking very much a member of this country’s majority. The only category in which she is a true minority is wealth: Elizabeth Warren is very, very rich.
Affirmative action has given a few minority students and workers an edge in their quest for upward mobility. Affirmative action has also become a counting game, a game of tokenism that invites abuse. While it is held up as a necessary and positive program that helps to make amends for evils of the past., it also serves as a fraudulent badge of progress. The overall failure to prepare a majority of minority students for adulthood is a much greater indicator of our nation’s commitment, or lack thereof, to building real equality for disadvataged minorities. America will move toward true equality when we quit trying so hard to help minorities with gestures and schemes and concentrate on adequately teaching and training all of America’s children. That’s affirmative action that could actually work.
Actually Warren does have some Indian ancestry, turns out her great, great grandmother was recorded on the census as being full blood Indian. I think this makes her 1/64th Indian. She has not had a DNA test yet, but based on this evidence it looks like she really does have Indian blood lines, but hardly enough to qualify for calling yourself Indian.
A lot of Americans have Indian blood coursing through their veins. Using that heritage to advance oneself when there is no disadvantage is a bit sleazy. But Harvard touting their diversity over this is really going too far.
My point in posting this is to suggest we have spent 30 years pretending that we (acutally liberal progresives) care about minorities through affirmative action policies when in fact the miserable statistics about minority education is abysmal.
Our energies would be better spent training teachers/administrators of any race to produce a better result in every neighborhood.
My grand mother had a family tree that showed a path back to Quanah Parker. That would make me 1/16 Comanche. I have never used the race card, the very thought of it makes me ill. I am a proud, white, conservative, married father, that is all I need and it gets me no special treatment. If anything it makes me a target for ridicule from individuals with room temperature IQ’s. If I would just call myself American Indian, I could call those same insult slingers racist maybe get them charged with hate crimes, that is not my bag. My tribe chooses to soundly beat and scalp our unworthy opponents in the arena of ideas.
I guess Squatting Cow Warren needs every hand out, leg up, and a boost she can get to make up for her ideological handy cap. I say bring on another unworthy opponent.
Elizabeth Warren Ancestor Rounded Up Cherokees For Trail of Tears
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/08/Elizabeth-Warren-Ancestor-Trail-of-Tears
Wow Pie that’s incredible!
I guess the Booby Prize in this debacle for Ms. Warren is a free accounting of her true lineage and heritage.
For over a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Warren has described herself as a Native American. When recently asked to provide evidence of her ancestry, she pointed to an unsubstantiated claim on an 1894 Oklahoma Territory marriage license application by her great-great grand uncle William J. Crawford that his mother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandmother, was a Cherokee.
After researching her story, it is obvious that her “family lore” is just fiction.
As I pointed out in my article here on Sunday, no evidence supports this claim. O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had no Cherokee heritage, was listed as “white” in the Census of 1860, and was most likely half Swedish and half English, Scottish, or German, or some combination thereof. (Note, the actual 1894 marriage license makes no claim of Cherokee ancestry.)
But the most stunning discovery about the life of O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford is that her husband, Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Rosss Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennesseethe point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837.
This new information about Ms. Warrens true heritage came as a direct result of a lead provided to me by William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection, who in turn had received the information from one of his readers. Jacobson, who has questioned Warren’s explanation for her law faculty listing, calls this discovery “the ultimate and cruelest irony” of the Warren Cherokee saga.
Jonathan Crawford, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawfords husband and apparently Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather, served in the East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteer Militia commanded by Brigadier General R. G. Dunlap from late 1835 to late 1836. While under Dunlaps command he was a member of Major William Lauderdales Battalion, and Captain Richard E. Waterhouses Company.
These were the troops responsible for removing Cherokee families from homes they had lived in for generations in the three states that the Cherokee Nations had considered their homelands for centuries: Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
While these involuntary home removals were not characterized by widespread violence, the newly displaced Cherokee mothers, fathers, and children found an oppressive and sometimes brutal welcome when they finally arrived at the hastily constructed containment areas. An estimated 4,000 Cherokees were warehoused in Rosss Landing stockades for months awaiting supplies and additional armed guards the Federal Government believed necessary to relocate them on foot to Oklahoma.
Jonathan Crawford most likely did not join the regular Army troops who “escorted” these Cherokees along the Trail of Tears. He did, however, serve once more with Major William Lauderdale’s re-formed Batallion of Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteer Militia. This group fought the Seminole Indians in Florida during the Second Seminole War. Crawford arrived in Florida in November, 1837, and served there for six months until his unit was disbanded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the following May. (Note: It was not uncommon in those days for militia formed to serve for a limited period of time under specific commanders would reform later under the same commanders.)
Jonathan Crawford’s service as a Private in Captain Richard E. Waterhouse’s Company of Major William Lauderdale’s Battalion of Mounted Infantry in Brigadier General R. G. Dunlap’s East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteers is confirmed by his appearance in the muster roll of the Brigade, taken around June of 1836. (Note that this transcription of the muster roll incorrectly lists the date as 1832.)
His service a year later (1837) in Major William Lauderdale’s Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry (Five companies of volunteers, one of which was led by Captain Richard E. Waterhouse) is confirmed by his widow O.C. Sarah Smith Crawfords 1851 pension application before the Bledsoe County, Tennessee commissioners
Meanwhile, William J. Crawford (Elizabeth Warren’s great-great grandfather who would, fifty-seven years later, falsely claim that his mother was Cherokee in that now-infamous 1894 Oklahoma Territory marriage license application) was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee in 1837. This was just a few months after his father apparently helped remove thousands of Cherokees from their homes and a few months before his father went off to fight Seminole Indians in Florida.
His father, Jonathan Crawford, Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandfather, died in Jackson County, Tennessee in 1841. His mother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, died sometime between 1860 and 1870 – most likely in Bledsoe County, Tennessee.
Neither O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, Jonathan Crawford, nor any of their seven other children, apparently ever claimed that O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had Cherokee heritage.
As recently as two weeks ago, Ms. Warren publicly claimed to have Native American ancestry. In Dorchester, Massachusetts on April 27 at the Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Apprentice Training Center she stated, I am very proud of my Native American heritage. Yet, decades after she first made this same claim, it now appears that it is without any foundation.
It is time for Ms. Warren to publicly acknowledge the truth of her ancestry. It is time for her to admit that she has no Native American heritage that she can prove; and it is time for her to acknowledge instead, that she is likely a direct descendant of a Tennessee Militiaman who apparently rounded up the ancestors of those who truly have Cherokee heritage, the first step in their forced removal from the Southeastern United States to Oklahoma over the long and tragic Trail of Tears.
Michael Patrick Leahy is the Editor of Broadside Books Voices of the Tea Party e-book series, and author of Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement.
You gotta wonder why if being a liberal is such a great thing, they are always running from it? Worthless cowards all of them.
Elizabeth Warren is a mendacious phony who has no American Indian heritage other than being a direct descendant of a person who help tho round up Cherokees for the near genocidal Trail Of Tears march.
No surprises there. Elizabeth Warren is a DEMOCRAT in the finest tradition of the Democratic Party.
It is the Democrat party, nothing democratic about them.