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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
43. Job applications?
Mon May 16, 2016, 05:50 PM
May 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren#U.S._Senate

In April 2012, the Boston Herald sparked a campaign controversy when it reported that from 1986 to 1995 Warren had listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) directories. Harvard Law School had publicized her minority status in response to criticisms about a lack of faculty diversity, but Warren said that she was unaware of this until she read about it in a newspaper during the 2012 election. Scott Brown, her Republican opponent in the Senate race, speculated that she had fabricated Native American heritage to gain advantage in the employment market. Former colleagues and supervisors at universities she had worked at stated that Warren's ancestry played no role in her hiring. Warren responded to the allegations saying that she had self-identified as a minority in the directories in order to meet others with similar tribal roots. Her brothers defended her, stating that they "grew up listening to our mother and grandmother and other relatives talk about our family's Cherokee and Delaware heritage". In her 2014 autobiography, Warren described the allegations as untrue and hurtful. The New England Historic Genealogical Society found a family newsletter that alluded to a marriage license application that listed Elizabeth Warren’s great-great-great grandmother as a Cherokee, but could not find the primary document and found no proof of her descent. The Oklahoma Historical Society said that finding a definitive answer about Native American heritage can be difficult because of intermarriage and deliberate avoidance of registration.


I don't see anything there about job applications.

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Whatever, Donald. BlueStater May 2016 #1
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LOL. Smarmie Doofus May 2016 #3
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it's humorous? Skittles May 2016 #10
+1 BootinUp May 2016 #17
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Another Hillbot without a sense of humor. BillZBubb May 2016 #32
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I don't get it. linuxman May 2016 #4
She claimed that in her Senate campaign and in some applications. BillZBubb May 2016 #6
Part of her ancestry is Native American, albeit distant. L. Coyote May 2016 #24
No. Just no. Corporate666 May 2016 #35
It isn't a lie just because you can't prove it. Family lore can be valid. L. Coyote May 2016 #37
Job applications? KamaAina May 2016 #43
If her family's been in the US long enough there's a good chance Retrograde May 2016 #45
As someone with family in the U.S. going back to the late 1700s I can relate to your CTyankee May 2016 #47
namecalling is cheap.... dhill926 May 2016 #5
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I suspect it was actually Fauxcahontas Angel Martin May 2016 #56
My parents wouldn't let me talk like that as a child left-of-center2012 May 2016 #9
me too. My parents were 2nd generation Texans and proud of it...no way would CTyankee May 2016 #12
"My parents were 2nd generation Texans" left-of-center2012 May 2016 #34
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He's Fired! libodem May 2016 #11
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probably onethatcares May 2016 #15
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keep it up Elizabeth! Takket May 2016 #21
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