What do Jane Fonda, Ted Turner, Jimmy Carter, and Scott Brown’s staffers all have in common?
Remember the political fall out at Jane Fonda when she and her husband, Ted Turn, sat in the stands at the Atlanta Braves games doing the Tomahawk Chop? Have we gone that far afield that it is now perfectly ok?
If they family says they have an Indian grandmother, then I suppose they do. Most people I know are proud of their Indian heritage. Often it isn’t provable because old records and bibles don’t keep track of native people. At any rate, who is Scott Brown to say who Elizabeth Warren’s ancestors are?
Of all the things I have seen come up in an election, this one is the most foolish. The fact that staffers are out chopping smacks of racism. It isn’t so much the chop, its the attitude around it.
People of different races and religions have often been reviled in this country. It’s time to stop doing that. Given the treatment oof American Indians in this country, I would just find something else for my campaign war chest.
Related by marriage is worth talking about, I would think.
If I were a Native American, I’d take a dim view of Europeans blithely claiming Native American ancestry. It surprises me a bit that anyone would think that it is insulting to native Americans to be skeptical of multi-generational white folk claiming native heritage.
I’m more in tune with your point about the nude posing. My guess is that we still have a double standard about that, although I like to think that a clearly qualified woman candidate would not be held back by that sort of thing.
I guess the fact that I really don’t know enough about is what Ms. Warren really has claimed in what context. I was under the impression that she ticked the box on Native American heritage on an application. You say she was manipulated into it by an employer seeking to pump up diversity numbers. I still find it squirrely, but in the latter case, it may reflect more on the employer than on the employee. I wonder how many other faculty members were strong-armed into puffing up their imagined or anecdotal ancestries, if that’s the way it went down. One would expect it to have been a systemic problem about which we’d hear a great deal as other profs came forward to back up Warren’s version of events.
Maybe that is why Scott Brown did get elected in the first place.
Maybe people liked what they saw.
I find it odd that this topic ISN’t coming up in that race. Scott Brown is a nice looking man.
On ancestory… About 6 years ago I interviewed with a reporter for USA Today on a topic I had been bitching about for a long time. There was a long expose in that periodical and I was quoted oh…about a paragraph. For some reason, our now family genealogist saw my name and wrote me a letter. I didn’t know him from Adam. I have never figured out how it all worked. I don’t know how he even had his software set to match names because I was quoted under my married name rather than the family name. I took the chance that Dan wasn’t an axe murderer and contacted him back. Talk about a treasure trove of information!! His wife is a distant…very distant cousin and he is a genealogist by avocation. His records are immaculate and he puts anything that the old ladies of the family had gathered to shame. (That’s how Meriwether Lewis got reduced to Cousin by Marriage Meriwether rather than just Cousin Meriwether.) Paul Goodloe McIntire stayed on the books though. Anyway, answering Dan proved to be very beneficial to my entire family on the Charlottesville side. (and yes, that side of the family is very long on arrogance)
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