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In reply to the discussion: Trump calls Elizabeth Warren, "Pocahontas". [View all]KamaAina
(78,249 posts)43. Job applications?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren#U.S._Senate
I don't see anything there about job applications.
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 Warrens 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.
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Jeffersons Ghost
May 2016
#51
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May 2016
#23
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May 2016
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May 2016
#42
I would have to go back and read her book again but it sure was convenient that
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May 2016
#46
Yeah, Boston assholes like Howie Carr, John Dennis and Gerry Callahan
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May 2016
#44
I think Elizabeth should call him "Carrot Top" but I think she's too classy to do it.
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May 2016
#40