Dumb bitch is touting her DNA results like it means something positive for her.
I'm as blond hair and blue eyes as it gets, and I have more Native American in my blood than she does (according to my
DNA results from Ancestry.com)
According to the analysis, if Warren’s great-great-great-grandmother were Native American, she would be considered 1/32 Native American. Should Warren’s ancestor date back 10 generations, she would be only 1/1,024 Native American. (The newspaper originally pegged the latter figure as 1/512, but in a correction that didn't do Warren any favors, later added a note saying, "Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative. It should be 1/1,024.")
"To put that in perspective, Warren might even be less Native American than the average European American," Republican National Committee Deputy Communications Director Mike Reed said in an email, while saying this would "not give you the right to claim minority status."
This is the sort of distant link one might expect, if anything, to come up in a casual conversation with friends. As in, some friends she's having dinner with mention they just came back from a visit to the wonderful National Museum of the American Indian, and she responds, "It is a great museum, and by the way, did I ever tell you I have some distant Native American ancestors?"
But Warren, as the Globe notes, did far more than that. "During her academic career as a law professor, she had her ethnicity changed from white to Native American at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught from 1987 to 1995, and at Harvard University Law School, where she was a tenured faculty member starting in 1995." When she taught there, Harvard Law promoted the idea that she was Native American to help demonstrate the diversity of the school's faculty.
I'm as blond hair and blue eyes as it gets, and I have more Native American in my blood than she does (according to my
DNA results from Ancestry.com)
According to the analysis, if Warren’s great-great-great-grandmother were Native American, she would be considered 1/32 Native American. Should Warren’s ancestor date back 10 generations, she would be only 1/1,024 Native American. (The newspaper originally pegged the latter figure as 1/512, but in a correction that didn't do Warren any favors, later added a note saying, "Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 10th generation relative. It should be 1/1,024.")
"To put that in perspective, Warren might even be less Native American than the average European American," Republican National Committee Deputy Communications Director Mike Reed said in an email, while saying this would "not give you the right to claim minority status."
This is the sort of distant link one might expect, if anything, to come up in a casual conversation with friends. As in, some friends she's having dinner with mention they just came back from a visit to the wonderful National Museum of the American Indian, and she responds, "It is a great museum, and by the way, did I ever tell you I have some distant Native American ancestors?"
But Warren, as the Globe notes, did far more than that. "During her academic career as a law professor, she had her ethnicity changed from white to Native American at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught from 1987 to 1995, and at Harvard University Law School, where she was a tenured faculty member starting in 1995." When she taught there, Harvard Law promoted the idea that she was Native American to help demonstrate the diversity of the school's faculty.
