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But she didn't.

 

I don't know.

 

Obama honored them as well.
Obama Tribal Nations | User Clip | C-SPAN.org

 

It's considered "trolling" here.

I think journalists tend to be really big picture people.

That's all I got.

 

The do-it-yourself DNA kits are making some folks realize grandma's stories of being a quarter Cherokee aren't true after all.

 

Why is Trump calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas?

"Warren’s former opponent Scott Brown has requested that Warren would take a DNA test to prove her heritage, but that bioethicist Nanibaa' Garrison, a PhD in genetics, told the Washington Post that it “wouldn’t do any good.”

"It's really difficult to say that a DNA test would be able to identify how much Native American ancestry a person has," Garrison told the Washington Post."

 

Hey, asshole, you might be a professional failure, but I don’t make fucking coffee.

 

There is a thing in academia called the Law of Gravity. It means you almost never wind up working at a school higher in the pecking order than the one at which you took your terminal degree. There are a few -- a very, very few -- exceptions, but it's called the "Law" of gravity for a reason. Among that topmost echelon of law schools, the faculty are exclusively graduates of other topmost echelon schools. And even when someone beats the law of gravity, it's only after decades of scholarly productivity. When my former dean, an economist, went up for full professor at Wharton, her evaluators sniffed at the pedigree of one of her recommenders being at the University of Arizona. Never mind that he'd just won the fucking NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS! Wisely, unwisely, fair, unfair ... that's the way this shit goes.

Now let's consider Pocahon ... Senator Warren. She took her J.D. at Rutgers-Newark. After a few years in private practice, she leveraged some rather mundane teaching experience and nondescript scholarship* into tenured full professorships at the University of Texas School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and finally Harvard Law, where she was the only graduate of a public law school in the entire tenure-track or tenured faculty.

You and others might say, yes, but she's really smart and did thus-and-such good work and blah blah blah. That's nonsense: The top law schools crank ones out just like her by the hundreds every year. Well ... like her except for one small thing.

You say the idea that she benefited from "being" Native American is ridiculous. I tell you, her having gotten within a time zone of where she wound up without "being" Native American is ... it may not be ridiculous, but it's certainly ridiculously improbable.



*Her scholarly work is, as I understand it, widely cited, but it's in a pretty narrow field that is not the stuff of Harvard Law et al.

 

Damn, you should be a teacher or ... something.

 

Nah. Have you seen my RMP reviews? Only one chili pepper.