Scott Brown's comments disputing Elizabeth Warren's native heritage, really pissed me off.

[LiveNudePolitics]

Scott Brown challenged the claim that Elizabeth Warren is part Cherokee, during last night's Boston debate for a closely watched race for a key Massachusetts Senate seat. "As you know ... Professor Warren has claimed she is a Native American, a person of color. As you can see, she is not," Brown said in their first of four TV debates before the November 6 election. Meaning what? She isn't dark enough to have Native ancestors? This whole line of questioning had me so insulted. Funny, he didn't look like a hateful person, but Scott Brown sure sounded like one last night, by saying something so idiotic and childish. Pretty sure isn't everything, is it?

Warren responded simply, that she was told as a child that her mother had Native American ancestry: "When I was growing up, these are the stories I knew about my heritage, I never asked anybody for any documentation. I don't know any kid who did." She is not uncommon in her assertion. Most of us only have oral histories from older family members to rely on, mostly because our families have more than a few generations separating them from an immigrant ancestor. Read More

[spanone]

1. in 2010, he was the tea party poster boy

what can you expect

[handmade34]

2. ignorant small minded

comment by Brown... I was livid!

[riverwalker]

3. she is part Cherokee

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/05/elizabeth-warren-is-part-native-american

[HiPointDem]

4. as i recall, the underlying issue is the question of whether she was hired at harvard law

as a minority & if that helped smooth her hiring + helped harvard meet its eeo quotas...

The Boston Herald has been going after Warren for identifying herself as "Native American" while she was a professor at Harvard Law School (she's currently on leave) and for listing herself in the Association of American Law Schools' annual directory as a minority professor due to her American Indian heritage. Warren and her colleagues have insisted her heritage was not an issue during her hiring, but she seemed to hedge in her comments on Tuesday: "Not that I can recall," she said, when asked if she had mentioned her ancestry during the application process. That's different than "No."

Now the Herald has some actual substance on the candidate's claims: Warren's great-great-great grandmother on her mother's side was Cherokee, making Warren—provided the genealogist didn't miss anything—1/32 Native American if her great-great-great grandmother was full-blooded (that's unclear).

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/05/elizabeth-warren-is-part-native-american

[LiveNudePolitics]

5. Thanks for the link

I loooove mother jones!

[ryan_cats]

6. Bingo, that is the real issue.

Bingo, that is the real issue.

[LiveNudePolitics]

7. It's always been a sad contrast

to me, when I hear my friends talking about their family history, how it is so very clear and recent, cherished and preserved when everyone is proud to be Irish, Mexican, Asian, African, or whatever, and I know so little about my Dad's Cherokee heritage because his parents worked hard to hide it all their lives, just to barely feed their kids. But my daughters have been busy working at finding more information on their roots, here in this brave new digital age.