[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Elizabeth Warren, like a lot of kids, grew up with family stories of a native heritage back some generations. Children believe the stories they hear of their ancestors. She didn't politicize it, her opponent in a Senate race dug it out of her past. There is no real evidence that she gained from it or even thought much of it when she wrote it down, once, in college. The college used it because they were so damn white they would use anything like that.
She claims it, on the maternal side I think, which is heard to nail down genetically. Paternal line can show haplogroup C or Q3 but even that wouldn't prove anything one way or another. She was naive and a bit foolish, as a million Americans are, to romanticize the story. She was young and her take on it lacks certain understandings about the Native experience. She may very well be 1/32 Cherokee regardless. Her answer to the demands for a test from a politicized jackal should be the same as the birther bullshit. F&*k off.

She is smart woman. A strong woman. A common theme in your silliest vitriol Charlie. She would mop the floor with both the geniuses aping Trump on this thread who get their geopolitical vision from Spengler's waste basket and carefully placed bubble gum wrappers.

A woman who has been here 21 years, who came here at 14 was deported to Mexico yesterday, a place she has no history or shelter in. Her community laid down in from of the ICE buses to try and stop it. Her children watched her dragged off through the bus windows. And Charlie, finds it important to ape President Schmuckstick. Anybody that is quiet about the deportation while it digs into the Republican shit pile to fill its hands with their excrement to throw at one of the few voices in the State taking a hard stand against what is going on here is a collaborator.

And if anybody finds my language more disturbing than the constant subtle rooting for the policies now taking form that cheerfully destroy lives to secure power, than you no longer need to look at the history books and wonder "how did people let that happen?".