Are they really as bad as all that? Well… Today, I review a direct to video Disney sequel, the cinematic equivalent of hiring a prostitute to dress up like your high school sweetheart, something beautiful and pure rendered tawdry and mercenary. Come and witness as my last scrap of virtue is torn away. Please send the check to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center:" Warren tweeted.īut President Trump on Monday scoffed when asked about the test’s results and said his charity offer is not yet in play.My very first post on this blog, half a goddamn decade ago, set out some rules that I swore I’d follow come hell or high water: "By the way, Remember saying on 7/5 that you’d give $1M to a charity of my choice if my DNA showed Native American ancestry? I remember – and here's the verdict.
Warren, not forgetting the president’s charity pledge, called on the president to carry through. "While the vast majority of the individual’s ancestry is European, the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor in the individual’s pedigree, likely in the range of 6-10 generations ago," the report read. This week, she released the results of that test, which shows “strong evidence” of some Native American ancestry. “And we will say, I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test so that it shows you're an Indian.”īut Warren has since beaten the president to the punch and actually did take a DNA test. Learn your heritage,” Trump said back in July. I will take – you know those little kits they sell on television for $2. “Let's say I'm debating Pocahontas, right? I promise you I'll do this. (MORE: Trump calls Elizabeth Warren 'total fraud' after Native American DNA test results) The president then upped the ante with a pledge that, should he ever come up against Warren in a general election debate, he’d give a million dollars to charity if Warren will take a test proving her heritage. “Her mother says she has high cheekbones,” Trump mockingly told a rally in Great Falls, Montana on July 5. Trump takes issue with Warren's claimīut the controversy hasn’t gone away, in large part because President Trump keeps bringing it up. She that thought was the bad deal she had gotten in life,” Warren said at the time. Because that is how she saw it and your mother got those same great cheekbones and I didn't. And my Aunt Bea has walked by that picture at least a 1,000 times remarked that he - her father, my Papaw – had high cheekbones like all of the Indians do. "I still have a picture on my mantel and it is a picture my mother had before that - a picture of my grandfather.
9, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass.Īt the height of the controversy in 2012, Warren noted that, within her family, a family trait of high cheekbones was attributed to the Native American ancestry. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally held for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Gonzalez and congressional Democratic candidate Ayanna Pressley, Sept. This is what my brothers and I were told by my mom and my dad, my Mamaw and my Papaw. In a video released by Warren yesterday, a number of former colleagues at the universities where she worked again deny that her heritage played any role in her hiring.īut she has embraced her claim to partial Native American ancestry as a point of family lore, telling NPR back in 2012 "I am very proud of my heritage.” Warren has consistently denied that she ever used her family tree to advance her career, and both universities have denied that Warren’s claim to Native American ancestry factored into their decisions to hire Warren. The controversy revolves around Warren having formally notified administrators at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard law schools, where she taught, during the 1980s and 1990s that she had partial Native American heritage and was listed as a Native American faculty member in a national law school directory, as the Boston Globe reported back in 2012. Here's how the controversy has unfolded The origins of Warren's claims