In defense of Elizabeth Warren....personal experience [View all]

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I am hoping Biden runs.. because I truly feel we will need someone with his experience in the Executive Branch to hit the ground running to save what is left of our government..

Having said that..Not for a New York second do I believe E.Warren purposely tried to mislead anyone.. She (just like me) had been told all her life that she had Native American ancestry.. so did I.. either one fourth or one eighth Cherokee.. everyone in our family laid claim to our Native American ancestry.. then 23 and me gave us all a whole new DNA history... we were not not one inkling Native American.. where did all those traits we saw in each other that we identified as Native American come from.. our straight black hair, high cheekbones, and almond eyes.. blue not brown.. but almond shaped none the less..

She made a claim to her heritage in the 80's... God knows I have..but we are 85% Irish and English.. we all knew that we had that Irish heritage.. but no Native American.. in fact E. Warren does have some claim to Native heritage

So in the age of Ancestry.Com.. we can be self sanctimonious and demand perfection from someone who did not have that accessible to them.. berate them, and let a President make racially insensitive comments calling her Pocahontas..

Give E. Warren a break.. its tough to lose part of the identity you were always told you had.. trust me.. I know.. She did not try and take advantage of tribal membership.. just like us.. it was just a proud part of her history, that her family always told her..