Why do so many purposely misinterpret Senator Warren's position?

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24. It's Trump's latest Birther smear, used against a Democratic star. Millions of Americans...

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...including my family -- have the same ancestral story. And it is true. In the late 1600s or early 1700s a male ancestor on my maternal grandmother's side married a woman who was "part Pequot Indian," and so it was recorded in an annotated list of births, marriages, and deaths I read at my grandmother's house when I was 13. The stories my grandmother told were about her more immediate Irish ancestors, but the first guy who landed on the East Coast was an English Separatist who sailed out of Leyden, Holland, and not an Irish Catholic at all. One does not exclude the other, and all I have mentioned are true.

My story is an American story, as is Elizabeth Warren's. If your family has been here more than a few generations, and if your family has outmarried from your original immigrant group (as most do once they get over their grandparents' ancestral prejudices about the difference between Swedes and Germans or whatever), you also probably have a trace of Native American -- or African American, and that is another very American story.

The amount of knee-jerk reactions to this coming from all sides of the Democratic party spectrum are absolutely appalling, imo.