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SternSkipper -> RE: What? No Elizabeth Warren thread? (5/5/2012 9:13:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Her great-great-great-grandmother was Cherokee, so she claims minority status on her way to a job at Harvard, and we're supposed to enbrace her ideas on consumer protection?
But she has the cheekbones, dammit!
So she's part Cherokee, so am I, but she never received any sort of preferential treatment and never sought any such.
BTW I'm a fair skinned, curly brown haired stereotypically Celtic man but my great grandmother was definitely Cherokee.
Rich and his Internet Girlfriend<tm> really have a loser here. I'm not even going to be a supporter of Warren.
1) You are talking about the Bay State which was the 1st state to give serious amounts of state and private land to the Wampanoag, only to find out that half of em were cape verdeans but the fact is, because some family lore existed, nobody raised and eyebrow.... And I can't even BEGIN to count the number of people in New England who have claimed to me that they have "Indian" somewhere in their family tree.
2)Everybody know it's a sour grapes thing because some reporter published the fact that Brown posed nude when he was in college and is alleged to have used a sugar mama to get through school and Warren merely responded to one of his insulting diatribes on camera about the amount of money she borrowed to educate herself hinting that she may have defaulted on those loans (she didn't, she actually had most of them paid off before she entered public life) ... Warren merely responded to one of Brown's snippy remarks with; "I at least kept my clothes on"
3)In Massachusetts (try to remember what a living hell for you right wingers living here is supposedly), MOST of the laws concerning minority status read "Women and Minorities" Why? Because whether or not anyone abides by them or not, and there's a BIG question there since you hear so much bristling over 'the advantages' women supposedly have in mass. And even the New England Miniority business associations are populated with a majority of white women from middle class backgrounds. So really, if Warren got herself any advantage, it was because she is a woman. Which is all above board and completely ethical. Unless you wish to open that can of worms that women lead some kind of privileged life with all the card stacked in their favor. In which case, let me know before hand so I can get a chaise lounge and a nice fresh organic ice tea and watch the fireworks.
4) And THIS is the REALLY IMPORTANT feature, which I apparently will have to repeat to many fence posts till they turn to sawdust apparently, is IF YOU DON'T LIVE INSIDE THE BORDERS O THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, WHAT FUCKING BUSINESS IS IT OF YOURS???
It's OUR SEAT, OUR CONSTITUENCY and messing with it is equivalent to cheating at cards or stealing from the poor box and those engaging in it are basically assholes. Please tell Karl Rove (as if it matters).
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