Diversionary American identity politics — "White Pocahontas" Warren — the Emperor of Orange — and the Cherokee Nation

16 October 2018

The societal absurdity that is the United States — merrily continues

After centuries of abominably treating African- and Native Americans — we have managed to focus (instead) on the silly shenanigans of the Emperor of Orange and a white-as-can-be American politician:

Senator Elizabeth Warren [see who she is, here] has released a DNA test that provides “strong evidence’’ she had a Native American in her family tree dating back 6 to 10 generations . . . .

Warren, whose claims to Native American blood have been mocked by President Trump and other Republicans, provided the test results to the Globe on Sunday . . . .

Warren’s pure Native American ancestor appears in her family tree “in the range of 6-10 generations ago.”

That timing fits Warren’s family lore, passed down during her Oklahoma upbringing, that her great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, was at least partially Native American.

Naturally, the Commander in Chief had to reply:

"Pocahontas (the bad version), sometimes referred to as Elizabeth Warren, is getting slammed," [President] Trump tweeted of his potential 2020 challenger.

"She took a bogus DNA test and it showed that she may be 1/1024, far less than the average American."

Pocahontas was a historical figure from the 17th Century and using her name in an intentionally disparaging way insults native peoples and degrades their cultures.

Meanwhile, the Cherokee Nation sanely pointed out that:

"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North or South America," Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said.

"Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation.

"Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven.

"Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."

So, in short

We have:

(i) a powerfully entitled white guy

quarrelling with

(ii) a powerfully entitled white woman

about

(iii) the validity of something non-whitely distinguishing

that

(iv) no one (looking at her) would suspect existed

and for which,

(v) the woman has never been killed, enslaved, oppressed, suppressed or repressed.

The moral? — Nothing is so important — that we Americans cannot diminish it — into a diverting absurdity

Is it possible to become so stupid, as to drop entirely out of the human "race"?

Pray for the day.

PeteFree.com

Diversionary American identity politics — "White Pocahontas" Warren — the Emperor of Orange — and the Cherokee Nation