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#NVSen: Berkley Policies Responsible for 44,000 Unemployed NV Hispanics
Berkley-Obama Policies are Driving Factor for Unemployment among Hispanics
(Las Vegas, NV) – Since 2008, Congresswoman Shelley Berkley voted with President Obama for the trillion dollar stimulus, Wall Street bailout, and ObamaCare, all of which are crushing the private sector and forcing unemployment to remain far too high in the Hispanic community. With 44,000 Hispanics unemployed in Nevada and a 14.5% unemployment rate among Hispanics, Shelley Berkley is desperately trying to run away from the Obama-Berkley agenda.
“Congresswoman Shelley Berkley wants to talk about ‘what ifs,’ but she cannot hide from the fact that it is her economic policies that have failed 44,000 unemployed Hispanic Nevadans. The trillion dollar stimulus, the Wall Street and Detroit bailouts and ObamaCare are destroying the private sector in Nevada and completely undercutting the free enterprise system that is so important for the Hispanic community. Bottom line, Congresswoman Berkley’s stunts aren’t fooling anyone. She cannot run away from her relentless pursuit of an agenda that has hurt the Hispanic community more than any other in Nevada,” said Chandler Smith, Heller for Senate spokeswoman.
Background:
The unemployment rate among the Hispanic community in Nevada has remained consistently higher than the general population. The average unemployment rate for the Hispanic community in Nevada was 14.5% with 44,000 Hispanic Nevadans out of work. In July, unemployment among Hispanic adults was 10.3%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said, while the overall nationwide unemployment rate was at 8.3%. (“Employment Situation News Release,” Department of Labor, August 3, 2012)
#NVSen: Shelley Berkley Supports Reconquista?
Embattled Congresswomen Shelley Berkley has agreed to speak at the National Council of La Raza annual conference, July 7-10 at Mandalay Bay along with VP Joe Biden.
Democrats have booked slots to help open and close the National Council of La Raza annual conference, July 7-10 at Mandalay Bay, and the largest national Latino civil rights organization in the country is hoping some GOP members will fill some of the spots in between.
Rep. Shelley Berkley, a candidate for U.S. Senate, will speak Saturday, July 7, the opening day of the conference, while Vice President Joe Biden is slated to deliver a keynote address at a luncheon Tuesday, July 10, the final day of the event.
On June 28 2012 Shelley Berkley stood on the House floor and said the following:
RECOGNIZING THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA DURING ITS 2012 ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — (Extensions of Remarks – June 28, 2012)
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- Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, today I urge my colleagues to join me in recognizing the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) during its 2012 annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- The National Council of La Raza became a national organization in 1972. NCLR has grown and evolved over the course of its history to become the most authoritative voice on Hispanic issues today. Latinos are strengthened through participation in NCLR and in the political process through its various civic engagement projects. NCLR also works to strengthen emerging community-based organizations in areas where there is a growing Latino population.
- Now in its 44th year, NCLR is busy building communities as an industry leader in homeownership counseling, operating programs in 40 sites throughout the country. Its Charter School Development Initiative has helped create more than 40 new schools and strengthen more than 45 others, and its Institute for Hispanic Health develops and implements health education and prevention programs and conducts health advocacy activities in partnership with its network of affiliates.
- NCLR’s education component is dedicated to increasing educational opportunities, improving achievement, supporting college-readiness, and promoting equity in outcomes for Latinos. The efforts of the education team build the capacity and strengthen the quality of the community-based education sector and inform the broader public education system.
- NCLR’s economic and workforce advocacy seeks to ensure the Latino community’s ability to contribute to and share in the nation’s economic opportunities by promoting policies that boost Hispanic employment in good jobs, provide safe and fair workplaces, bridge Latino workers’ education and skills gaps, and offer a secure retirement.
- With the Raza Development Fund, NCLR’s community development lending arm is one of the nation’s largest and most successful community development banks. It has approved more than 117 loans totaling $54.6 million, leveraging more than $267 million in financing to community-based housing projects, schools, health clinics, and day care centers.
- More recently, in efforts to provide NCLR’s affiliates with more direct access to elected officials in Washington, DC, earlier this year NCLR held its first annual NCLR National Advocacy Day. The event convened affiliate members from 22 states who were briefed on the most important issues facing Latinos at the national level, including education, economic mobility, health, and immigration, and who met with Members of Congress to educate them about the needs of the community.
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As the Representative for Nevada’s First Congressional District, it gives me immense pride to recognize the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and the role they play in educating and training our community members, developing community leaders and fighting for equal rights and fair representation throughout the United States. I am especially pleased to welcome NCLR’s members and the tens of thousands of attendees for its 2012 annual conference to Las Vegas, Nevada. I ask that my colleagues join me in recognizing the great work of NCLR and wish them a most successful 2012 conference.
Coincidentally. Shelley Berkley enjoys a 100% rating form LA Raza. Frightening, when you consider that the organization and it’s splinter groups advocate for completely open boarders, Reconquista, and Aztlan.
Governor Brian Sandoval is said to be sending in a video message which is disheartening, to say the least, we would expect the Governor to better informed and not support this racist organization. Yes I called it a racist organization! Although their PR spin would have you think differently an organization that’s named, La Raza, which means “The Race” is by definition a racist organization. Their close ties with the radical separatist groups like MEChA are fairly well documented but they continue to say their association with MEChA is limited to only one small chapter they gave a $2,500 sub-grant too… I call BS!
Former MEChA member, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, was officially endorsed by La Raza for mayor and was awarded La Raza’s Graciela Olivarez Award. Former California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante is also a former MEChA member. He delivered the keynote address at La Raza’s 2002 Annual Convention… Ties all over the place.
WE ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS THAT CAME FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY TO ANOTHER COUNTRY….WE ARE FREE TO TRAVEL THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE AMERICAS BECAUSE WE BELONG HERE.” – Jose Angel Gutierrez, Prof. Univ. Texas at Arlington
Jose Angel Gutierrez, Prof. Univ. Texas at Arlington, founder La Raza Unida Party at UC Riverside 1/1995: “The border remains a military zone. We remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we’re a new Mestizo nation. And they want us to discuss civil rights. Civil rights. What law made by white men to oppress all of us of color, female and male. This is our homeland. We cannot – we will not- and we must not be made illegal in our own homeland. We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here. We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It’s a matter of time. The explosion is in our population.
In 2010 our good friend Robert Stacy McCain wrote a piece titled ‘Indigenous’ Mexicans? La Raza and the Reconquista Myth where he showed photos of what the La Raza movement actually espouses at rallies and events:
Barbara Espinosa at American Freedom blog sends along these photos from the protest in Phoenix:
“We are here as indigenous peoples of this continent . . . to confront the Racist squatters on our continent who dare to call us foreigners. . . . 500 years of European crimes of trespassing, theft, murder, false borders, and Genocide do not make OUR CONTINENT a European continent!”
Smitty earlier linked to the many photos by Donald Douglas at American Power conveying similar sentiments.
What you are seeing here is an attempt to delegitimize the United States in the same way Palestinian nationalists have attempted to delegitimize Israel. Like the “Zionism is racism” argument that Palestinians use to justify their terrorism against Jews in israel, the advocates of a Mexican reconsquista proclaim that the mere desire of Americans to control their borders — to have an orderly system of immigration — is “racist.”
I agree with Human Events and their advice for La Raza if it want’s to be taken seriously as a non-racists anti-American organization:
La Raza defenders usually respond by calling anyone making these allegations “a racist” for having called attention to La Raza’s racist links. All the groups and public officials with ties to the La Raza movement can take a big step towards disproving these allegations by simply following the examples of Senators Byrd and Thurmond and repenting of their past ways.
If they are unwilling to admit past misdeeds, they can at least state — unequivocally — that they officially oppose the racist and anti-American positions of MEChA, and any other groups that espouse similar views.
Through public appearances, written statements, and on their respective websites, La Raza groups and allies must:
1. Denounce the motto “For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,” as repugnant, racist, and totally incompatible with American society or citizenship.
2. Acknowledge the right of all Americans to live wherever they choose in the U.S. without segregation.
3. Commit to sponsorship of nationwide educational programs to combat racism and anti-Semitism in the Hispanic community.
4. Denounce and sever all ties with MEChA and any other organizations with which they have ever been associated which held to the racist doctrines held by MEChA.
5. Acknowledge the internationally recognized borders of the U.S., the right of the citizens of the U.S. to determine immigration policy through the democratic process, and the right of the U.S. to undertake any and all necessary steps to effectively enforce immigration law and defend its border against unauthorized entry.
6. Repudiate all claims that current American territory rightfully belongs to Mexico.
If the National Council of La Raza, other La Raza groups, and local and national political leaders with past ties and associations with the radical elements of the La Raza movement can publicly issue such a statement and live by every one of these principles, they should be welcomed into the American public policy arena, with past sins — real or imaginary — forgiven.
If they cannot publicly and fully support these principles, Congress needs to take appropriate steps and immediately bar any group refusing to comply from receiving any future federal funds. Both the House and Senate should strike these groups from testifying before any committees, and the White House should sever all ties. Both political parties should disengage from any further contact with these groups and individuals.
Shelley Berkley, Joe Biden, and Brian Sandavol should cancel these speaking engagements immediately. Failure to do so reenforces the idea that they support La Raza and their splinter groups anti-American positions and the notion of Reconquista!
#MASen Update: Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee Nation
In Massachusetts, more than five weeks after the Native American controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren first broke, these are still just some of the stories that voters in the Bay State are reading this morning –
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- Lowell Sun editorial – Maybe Now Warren Will Come Clean. But if Warren knowingly embraced the unsupported information to get ahead, she is guilty of a shameful mistake. In the latter case, we’d have to seriously consider whether she has the character and integrity to represent the people of Massachusetts in Washington, D.C. Over a month ago, when The Boston Herald broke the story about Warren’s undocumented claim to a Cherokee heritage, The Sun questioned the story’s relevance. We felt there were more important things to learn about Warren, like how she would plan to get the unemployed back to work and reduce the nation’s $16 trillion debt, which is strangling economic growth. However, the story has not gone away. That’s because Warren keeps digging a deeper hole for herself every time she persists that what she was told is true.
- Boston Globe — Boston’s ministers skeptical of Elizabeth Warren. Rivers said the questions are legitimate and could affect Warren’s image in the black community and the public at large. “It is within bounds to raise the question of whether or not a white woman used the minority card for her professional advantage,” said Rivers. “Ancestry is not the issue,” Rivers added, saying that Warren’s handling of the controversy raises questions beyond her heritage. “Did you tell the truth? Because you marketed yourself as the good-guy, straight-shooting-populist, representing-poor-people candidate.”
- Boston Herald — Tom Menino slow to back Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren has 96 percent of the Bay State’s Democratic delegates in her corner, but she still hasn’t closed the deal with one of Massachusetts’ most influential politicians — Mayor Thomas M. Menino….“Warren isn’t his cup of tea,” said longtime City Hall watcher Joe Slavet. “He comes from a working-class culture. He wouldn’t even know how to start a conversation with Elizabeth Warren and vice-versa. … He’s torn between a guy that he knows how to get along with and a higher kind of question, which is, can he contribute to getting a bigger majority in the Senate?”
- Finally, make sure to read this morning analysis of recent #MASenate poll numbers from Washington Post’s The Fix — What’s more, Warren’s personal image has taken a hit, with her unfavorable rating rising from 23 percent to 32 percent over the last two months, even as her favorable rating ticked up just one point. She’s still in plenty positive territory (48 percent favorable, 32 percent unfavorable), but she’s underwater when it comes to independents (35 percent favorable, 38 percent unfavorable).…Whatever the case, the last couple of months seem to have helped him with this group; his lead among independents grew by 10 points — 51 percent to Warren’s 13 percent. UNH pollster Andrew Smith told The Fix “this issue is having an impact on Democrats and independents who, in Massachusetts, typically would vote for the Democratic candidate. And it’s happening when the campaign really hasn’t even begun.”
- Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee Nation from Bloomberg –The Boston Globe reported that Warren claimed no minority status in applying to college or law school. Her application to Rutgers University Law School, which Warren attended, included the question: “Are you interested in applying for admission under the Program for Minority Group Students?” Warren answered, “No.” Yet at some point in the late 1980s, when she was teaching law at the University of Pennsylvania, Warren began listing herself as Native American in a legal directory. A recently-unearthed article from a 1997 Fordham Law Review describes Warren as the Harvard Law School faculty’s “first woman of color.” Was Warren gaming the system to make herself more appealing to employers? The rules of racial preference are murky, but anyone in Warren’s position would’ve understood that, all other things being equal, nonwhite status bestowed an advantage. Meanwhile, both Penn and Harvard seemed all too eager to claim credit for an extra dose of racial diversity on their faculties that, in reality, they lacked. Fewer than 13 percent of American Indians have a bachelor’s degree, compared with almost 31 percent of whites. Median earnings among American Indians are roughly two-thirds those of whites. Penn, Harvard and other prominent schools have reason, beside historical injustice, to give qualified American Indian (or black or Hispanic) applicants a second look or even a modest helping hand. A commitment to fostering pluralism, and a breadth of experience and cultures, is central to their mission.
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#MASen Update: Filings Add to Questions on Warren’s Ethnic Claims
As controversy continues to build around Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren, and Warren continues to refuse to release any records related to her academic career, it’s becoming more clear why that might be. In a front page story today, the Boston Globe details how over at least six straight years either Warren or Harvard Law School officials – or both – falsely promoted her as a Native American minority in federally mandated diversity statistics that are filed with the Department of Labor. The Globe notes that this came at a time when “the school was under intense pressure to diversify its faculty.” Notably, as has been the case for the last four weeks as this controversy has been building, “the Warren campaign declined Thursday to answer the Globe’s specific questions about the documents.”
The Globe’s revelations come one day after a combative press conference that an angry and defensive Warren held with the Boston media at her campaign event in Brookline on Thursday. As NPR Boston reported – “Warren Continues Sidestepping Questions About Why Harvard Called Her A Minority.”
Here’s just part of Warren’s exchange with the Boston press corps yesterday.
Filings add to questions on Warren’s ethnic claims
From the Boston Globe:
US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren has said she was unaware that Harvard Law School had been promoting her purported Native American heritage until she read about it in a newspaper several weeks ago.
But for at least six straight years during Warren’s tenure, Harvard University reported in federally mandated diversity statistics that it had a Native American woman in its senior ranks at the law school. According to both Harvard officials and federal guidelines, those statistics are almost always based on the way employees describe themselves.
In addition, both Harvard’s guidelines and federal regulations for the statistics lay out a specific definition of Native American that Warren does not meet.
The documents suggest for the first time that either Warren or a Harvard administrator classified her repeatedly as Native American in papers prepared for the government in a way that apparently did not adhere to federal diversity guidelines. They raise further questions about Warren’s statements that she was unaware Harvard was promoting her as Native American.
The Warren campaign declined Thursday to answer the Globe’s specific questions about the documents. In a statement, Warren’s spokeswoman, Alethea Harney, said that “over the past month Elizabeth has answered countless questions openly while the people who recruited her have made it clear it was because of her extraordinary skill as a teacher and a groundbreaking scholar.’’
‘Over the past month, Elizabeth has answered countless questions openly.’
In recent weeks, Warren has repeatedly said that her race was not a factor in her hiring at Harvard or elsewhere, a point that several colleagues and supervisors at the schools have publicly supported. There is nothing in the federally required documents that contradicts those statements.
Steve Foley Gains Republican National Hispanic Assembly Endorsement
Great News!
Steve just received another amazing endorsement in the CD 47 race!
We’re excited to tell you about it, and when you read the press release below, we know you’ll understand why.
For Immediate Release: May 22, 2012
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CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE STEVE FOLEY GAINS REPUBLICAN NATIONAL HISPANIC ASSEMBLY ENDORSEMENT
(Cypress, CA) — Today, the Steve Foley for Congress campaign is honored to announce a key endorsement by the Republican National Hispanic Assembly (RNHA) of California in the District 47 congressional race.
The RNHA is the only Hispanic Republican organization to be recognized as an ally of the Republican National Committee.
Responding to the endorsement, Steve Foley noted: “The RNHA is truly an exceptional organization, and I am privileged to have their good opinion. Particularly in California, where the Hispanic community plays such an historic and vital role, the RNHA can always be found at the forefront, advancing principles of true freedom that yield real opportunity and greater prosperity. I am humbled that the California chapter sees me as an ally in their mission. Their partnership is not only deeply appreciated but also essential in my own mission to restore liberty to Californians and all Americans.”
Founded in 1974, the RNHA has been instrumental in fostering Republican principles within the Hispanic community; providing Hispanic Americans with a forum to play an influential role in Party activities at the local, state, and national levels; increasing the number of Hispanic Republican elected officials; and creating and maintaining a network of Hispanic Republican leaders. RNHA membership is open to anyone wishing to assist in advancing the aims of inclusion, outreach, and opportunity for the Hispanic community.
For further information about Steve Foley’s candidacy and platform in the District 47 congressional race, please visit the campaign website at: www.stevefoleyforcongress.com.
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#MASen Update: University of Pennsylvania Described Warren as a Minority Faculty Member…
In Massachusetts, that DRIP, DRIP, DRIP sound you hear is the sound of a Democratic Senate campaign that is rapidly losing credibility with voters. Just 72 hours after Warren repeated her claim that she had “no idea” how or why Harvard Law School had listed her as a minority, it turns out the University of Pennsylvania Law School – where she taught before Harvard – also touted her as a minority. And yet, Warren is still flatly refusing to release all of her law school personnel records for public view – there is apparently a reason for that. Here is just a sampling of today’s headlines….
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· Washington Post: University of Pennsylvania also listed Elizabeth Warren as a minority
· New York Times: University of Pennsylvania Described Warren as a Minority Faculty Member
· ABC News: Elizabeth Warren Did Not List as Minority on Law School Application, Was Touted as One by U. Penn
· Politico: Elizabeth Warren listed as minority at U Penn
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Meanwhile, even Warren’s fellow Ivy League Law Professors aren’t buying Warren’s story – Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson was a guest on Dan Rea’s NightSide Show on WBZ 1030 – the Boston mega station – where he said Warren’s explanations simply do not add up. Click here to listen.
Harvard won’t say if Liz Warren listed as minority
From the Boston Herald:
Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report — but school officials and campaign aides for Elizabeth Warren refused to say yesterday whether it refers to the Democratic Senate candidate.
Warren — who has been dogged by questions about whether she used her claims of Cherokee lineage to further her career — has insisted she never authorized Harvard Law to count her as a Native American in the mid-1990s, when the school was under fire for not having enough minority professors.
Prior to that, from 1986 to 1995, Warren had listed herself as a minority in a law school directory administrators then used as a tip sheet when making diversity hires. But by 1996, when Harvard Law was boasting that Warren was the faculty’s first minority female, she had stopped appearing in the law school directory.
Harvard Law’s 2011 diversity report does not indicate who the Native American professor is. And the school refused to say whether it’s Warren.
Warren spokeswoman Alethea Harney brushed off the question, saying only, “Elizabeth has been straightforward and open about her heritage while the people who recruited her have made it clear it was because of her extraordinary skill as a teacher and a ground-breaking scholar.”
The 2011 report indicates that “Race/Ethnicity designations are from self-report data,” meaning whoever is listed as a Native American told the school of their tribal lineage.
#MASen Update: Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Controversy Grows, May Not Be 1/32 Native American After All
In Massachusetts, file this one under “You Can’t Make It Up” – as the controversy has grown over Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren’s decision to cast herself as a Native American early in her legal career, Warren finally broke five days of silence yesterday and offered this truly bizarre explanation – she did it to make friends. As the Boston Herald reports, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade because she hoped to meet other people with tribal roots. “I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,” said Warren.
But that’s not all – the Herald goes on to report that Warren may not even be 1/32 Native American after all — Warren’s statements come as genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society were unable to back up earlier accounts that her great great great grandmother is Cherokee. While Warren’s great great great grandmother, named O.C. Sarah Smith, is listed on a electronic transcript of a 1894 marriage application as Cherokee, the genealogists are unable to find the actual record or a photograhic copy of it, Society spokesman Tom Champoux said.
So how does Elizabeth Warren know that she’s Native American given the genealogists’ findings and the fact that her campaign has been unable to produce a single shred of evidence to support it? High cheekbones. Seriously. As the Weekly Standard reports, Speaking to a reporter on a local news station in Boston, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts cited her ancestor’s “high cheekbones” (quoting an aunt) as evidence of her Native American heritage:
But there’s even more – one legal blog astutely observes that Warren’s latest explanation that she checked the Native American box to meet new friends with tribal roots, simply doesn’t hold water. Why? The Legal Insurrection blog writes, Why doesn’t it add up? Because the section listing “minority” faculty doesn’t list which minority, so Warren listing herself that way would not be a means of meeting other Native Americans, because no one else would know she was claiming to be Native American just from the listing. (I wonder how Harvard knew if she never told them and it never came up?)… I checked, and her full bios also did not disclose her Native American status. Perhaps Warren just lumped all minorities together in her friendship plans….Something tells me this is not over.
Needless to say, Warren’s latest bizarre claims have been met with incredulousness by the Boston media. While the examples are countless, click below to watch New England Cable News’ Jim Braude’s reaction to Warren’s press conference yesterday….
- From ABC’s The Note today – ABC’s Rick Klein weighs in on the mounting problems for Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren: “You don’t win elections in May, but you can start to lose them.”
- From Politico’s Morning Score – Warren Loses Another Day.
Meanwhile, while Warren entered semi-meltdown mode at her event in Braintree yesterday, the Associated Press reports that Scott Brown was at the Bunker Hill Community College reminding students of his bipartisan, pro-jobs record. In a speech to students and faculty at Bunker Hill Community College, Brown touted several bills he sponsored that passed with bipartisan support and his willingness to appear at President Barack Obama’s side during signing ceremonies. Brown, who took office in 2010 after winning a special election to fill the seat of the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, lambasted a bitterly partisan Washington environment in which Democrats and Republicans constantly question each other’s motives and “look at each other as enemies who need to be defeated at all costs.” “We want people with convictions and backbone, not a bunch of pushovers who agree on everything because they believe in nothing,” Brown said.
Warren: My Grandfather Had High Cheekbones ‘Like All the Indians Do’ #MASen
Yeah, what’s with the stereotyping? What happened to Liberals being so tolerant???
From the Weekly Standard:
Speaking to a reporter on a local news station in Boston, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts cited her ancestor’s “high cheekbones” (quoting an aunt) as evidence of her Native American heritage:
Earlier today, the Harvard law professor explained that she listed herself as “Native American” on school directories in the past so she could meet others “who are like I am.” Genealogists have been unable to verify that Warren is descended from Native Americans, despite her claims.
Warren is running closely with her opponent, incumbent Republican senator Scott Brown, according to the RealClearPolitics poll average.
Warren’s ancestry raises question: Who is a minority job candidate?
From the Boston Globe (editorial):
Harvard Law School was stretching its credibility when it boasted, in a 1996 press release, that Professor Elizabeth Warren was a Native American; she has, according to family lore and long-ago marital records, some Native American ancestry, but she wasn’t a tribe member and, by her own account, didn’t hold herself out as a Native American. Her ancestry may have been a small point of diversity on a largely white-male faculty, but it was a disservice to students to suggest she was offering the perspective of a Native American.
Now, in the midst of a Senate campaign, the question facing Warren is whether she played any role in Harvard’s decision to tout her as Native American; on Friday, when the story first came to light in the Boston Herald, she said she did not know of the press release, and had not claimed that she was a minority for hiring purposes. If so, it seems likely that Warren, like many other people with some degree of mixed background, was simply enmeshed in an academic culture that values diversity but lacks any standards for who should be counted as a minority.
The story didn’t quite end there. On Monday, when the Globe and other outlets reported that Warren had been listed as a minority professor in the American Association of Law Schools desk book for eight years, her campaign changed its tune slightly: “The simple fact is Elizabeth is proud of her heritage,” her spokeswoman said in a prepared statement.
