Left eats left.
Via BPR:
Rebecca Nagle, a bona fide Cherokee Nation citizen and a self-described “two spirit (queer) woman,” just wrote a piece for the liberal website Think Progress that is bound to stun Democrats set on defending Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Warren has been mercilessly lampooned as “Pocahontas” by President Trump for her baseless Native American heritage claims, and yet the media has chosen to focus on Trump’s choice of words instead of the fact that Warren is unfairly portraying herself as someone she’s clearly not in order to get ahead.
But Nagle is having none of it.
After acknowledging the assumption that “as a young Cherokee woman” she would “take Warren’s side,” Nagle noted that merely standing up to Trump, whom she disagrees with also, doesn’t make Warren a hero.
“She was not a hero to me when she failed to foster a haven of support for Native students within Harvard University’s alienating Ivy League culture,” Nagle writes. “She is not a hero for spending years awkwardly avoiding Native leaders. She is not a hero because, despite claiming to be the only Native woman in the U.S. Senate, she has done nothing to advance our rights.”
“She is not from us. She does not represent us. She is not Cherokee.”
Nagle outlined the root of the Warren / Native American controversy and how the then-Harvard Law School professor “categorized herself as ‘Native American’ during a time when the minority status served her career and later dropped the marker after gaining tenure.”
Except, “…as Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not.”
“High cheekbones” aside, Warren’s baseless claims boil down to “racist stereotypes and easily refutable stories about her family,” and Nagle notes that Cherokee genealogists can find zero evidence to support them.