Charlie, I'll leave the vitriolic accusations based on Trumpian "alternative truth" to you. I prefer to try to determine the facts.
"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,
speculatedxtthat she had fabricated Native American heritage to gain advantage in the job market. Former colleagues and supervisors at universities where she had worked 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.
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So it seems evident that Elizabeth Warren has good reason to believe that she has Cherokee blood - or do you think that the mention of a marriage license application (even if the primary document can't be found) listing her great-great-great-grandmother as a Cherokee was a lie planted many generations earlier in case the as-yet unborn Elizabeth might find it useful some day?
On reflection, knowing you, you're probably able to convince yourself that that's exactly what happened.
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