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I'll answer this later.

You see Bernie supporters adopt Republican framing smearing Warren. What I said about Warren's NA claim is Republican framing? Why isn't it Liberal framing when they say it if Bernie supporters say something they also say? I actually don't know much about what they say about it beyond the Pocahontas insult, however it comes as no surprise to hear that they'd make up lies about the issue.

I know that she wasn't an affirmative action hire, and that her supposed status as a Native American didn't get her into law school, nor did she get faculty jobs for it. I'm well aware that she didn't need to do that. She's a highly skilled and sought after attorney and law professor who has written award winning books on law. She's one of the top lawyers in her field. That's not the issue to me and to many others who find this Native American status problematic.

The problem starts when she started identifying as a minority for the Association of American Law Schools, which is a directory of law teachers. She had to fill out forms for that directory for each U she taught at between 1986 and 1994 which were the U of Texas, U of Penn, and Harvard, at which she taught as a visitor for a year in 1992. She claimed minority status for all of them. When she moved to Harvard in 1995 she stopped doing it. So from 1986-1994 she was listed in this directory at 3 different schools as a POC. This was at a time when there was intense pressure on these schools to prove that they had ethnic diversity in their faculties. When applying as a student she was white and then suddenly became NA for these schools at a time when they were under pressure to hire minorities? Harvard even publicly declared that they had a NA faculty member, her, in response to critics. 1/

Based on that, it becomes very obvious to me that she was claiming minority status to help her employers. You help your boss, you help your career, you help yourself. That's personal gain. Even if you are white, can you not at least understand how incredibly offensive it is to a POC to learn that a privileged white person who has never had to suffer racial discrimination was claiming to be a POC so her bosses could pretend they had ethnically diverse faculty members?

Now add to that the fact that she completely ignored the Standing Rock protests and it becomes infuriating. The more you dig the worse it gets. She had the audacity to finally speak out about DAPL when it was all said and done.

Then there's this sweet, dumb, emotional, folksy old lady schtick she's got going that she used when questioned about her POC status at those schools. Paraphrasing: "I just put that down on the forms because, well, you know, I thought it would be kind of neat to meet other people like me and that maybe, oh I don't know, I would get invited to a luncheon or something. But then someone told me, oh, no, that's for the school to show that they hire people of color. So when I found that out I stopped doing it." I'm supposed to buy that?? There's no better way to say - gimme a fukn break. 2/

Now, bear in mind that her Native American heritage goes back around 200 years. Her own brother said that he was told they had a teeny, tiny bit of Cherokee in their blood line. It's far too much of a stretch for anyone to claim that having an ancestor or two, two hundred years ago who were a different race than everyone else in the blood line obviously is and was could make them identify as the race of those two people hundreds of years ago. She obviously claimed POC status to help her employers and she keeps lying about it. But the worst part to me is how overwhelmingly obvious it is that she could not care less about the plight of the Native Americans by her ignoring the Standing Rock Sioux's protests. You say she felt an affinity to her native heritage and wanted to bring attention to the plight of natives and she ignored Standing Rock??? These people were out there for months, in a blizzard, getting illegally arrested, pepper sprayed, tear gassed, shot with rubber bullets, freezing water, grenades, and all she could do was defend the pipeline construction workers, and intimate that these workers were under threat from the protestors and her Native American brethren. They weren't. There were hundreds of casualties. People died. People were maimed. And you say she has an affinity to her native heritage and wants to bring attention to their plight? By not showing up?? By ignoring their plight??

So is the above an unfair attack with no basis in fact?

This is just one of many issues I find extremely problematic with Warren.

FYI - I'm not a Bernie purist. If I'm a purist for anything it’s for a candidate who is the best one for the job who is willing to stand up to corporate greed and fight for the working class. Bernie just happens to be the only one I know of who qualifies. 3/end