Friday, August 10, 2012

There's A Problem with Warren's "Indian Answer"


This is apparently Elizabeth Warren's rehearsed “Indian answer” –
From the Boston Globe (May 30, 2012) Elizabeth Warren press release –
“Growing up, my mother and my grandparents and my aunts and uncles often talked about our family’s Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would?”
From CBS Boston (July 3, 2012) Response to our blog post about Aunt Bea listed as white –
“Growing up, my mother and my grandparents often talked about our family’s Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation – what kid would?”
“Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never asked them for documentation--what kid would?”
When Elizabeth was growing up, her mother and grandparents often talked about her family's Native American heritage.  She never thought to ask her Mom or her grandparents for documentation - what kid would?”

Do you notice a pattern there? “never thought to ask……for documentation – what kid would?”

Ms. Warren’s canned answer does not stand up to scrutiny. 

Here’s why – 

What does being a kid have to do with getting documentation? Ms. Warren’s parents didn’t die until the 1990s. She was an adult longer than she was a child during their lives. Are we to assume being Indian was such an important part of their lives it was never mentioned during her adulthood?

So she didn’t ask for documentation as a child because children don’t think to do those things. Ok, we will give her that, but what is her excuse for not asking for documentation in 1986 when she was 37 years old BEFORE she started listing herself as a minority in the legal directoriesHer mother was still alive.  

Ms. Warren’s mother, Pauline Reed Herring, the purported Indian, died in 1995. At that time, Ms. Warren was 46 years old. She wasn’t a child any longer and she had already claimed to be a minority in legal directories for nine years, starting in 1986

There is something SERIOUSLY wrong with the story she is telling us, folks. 

Elizabeth Warren listed herself as a minority without proof for 9 years while her mother was alive. Asking for documentation as a child had nothing to do with it.
  • She was an adult.
  • She was a lawyer.
  • She taught law.
She had to know proof mattered. 
         
Those are my thoughts for today.
Thanks for reading.





copyright 2012, Polly's Granddaughter - TCB

1 comment:

  1. I find it ironic that Ms. Warren is using the indigenous community of America in an attempt to be elected to the U.S. Senate - a group who, since the 18th century, has made and broken treaties and agreements with the Native American community. What a slap in the face it will be should she win and then be appointed to the Senate's Committee on Indian Affairs. Guess it shouldn't be surprising given the lack of concern by Congress and others nowadays in what is, or is not, reflected on one's Birth Certificate. What a mainstay you are, Twila, in the "ship" of truth.

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