I am white, but my grandfather on my father’s side was not and grew up on a reservation. He adopted my father when he married my grandmother and was the only father that my dad ever knew. You would not believe the number of white people that have told me that I should use that connection to my advantage (especially…

Just going to point out that commutation of ones sentence does not absolve one of the crime. It does not remove the verdict. It does not remove the felony. Its simply a ‘and we’re now letting you go’ for whatever reason.

But if the average sentence for her crime is 3.5 years, she’s already served that time. She has paid her debt.

The sentence was way out of range. Trump’s own National Security adviser leaked intel to Pakistan with at least as much consequence to field operations, and what was his punishment? He was informally reprimanded

My husband and I had a good talk about this on Sunday. My reaction was and remains that the core “joke” there is “haha, men kissing each other is weird, especially if the men are good looking and famous!” It’s a classic “surprise!” joke, where the humor is supposed to come from your shock at an unexpected thing…

In order to be “indigenous” in the Australian Aboriginal community, you must have members of your tribe, including leaders, vouch for you. If they can’t or won’t, you cannot benefit from programs and initiatives that are designed to assist the community, and you cannot claim to be indigenous. A conservative media…

Like this?

Who would have thought Seth Meyers would emerge as the hard-hitting late-night personality?

I did 23&Me and it was ridiculous. I have blood test and biopsy-confirmed celiac disease; it did not find the genetic marker for it. I searched specifically through my raw data.

That identity definition blew my mind. Thank you for teaching me something today.

A friend and I both have metis heritage that is more or less untraceable. She and I both have never experienced life on a reservation, nor the discrimination that comes from being visibly Indigenous in the city.

I totally get it. But I can tell you that I am sometimes embarrassed enough with white people that I might be quite happy to Dolezal myself.

Why yes. Yes, I do.

“The room audibly gasped, and Sessions looked stunned.”

This is an especially fascinating conversation for me because I am adopted and I JUST did the ancestry test because I have no idea about my background at all. I am dark haired and look (according to other people )-Italian, Greek, Spanish, and very very Sephardic.

It sounds like he has lived his life as a white man but gets to benefits off of indigenous people by claiming a nebulous ancestry. Simply put: if he has not lived the culture, he should not claim nor attempt to confer it to his other white friends.

Wait until you see the back and forth between him and Graham. It’s like some slow melting southern soap opera.

Everybody descends from princesses and chiefs, it is amazing! It is almost like all the regular imaginary native people were infertile, and only the chiefs were allowed to have kids...

Good call in quoting Gyasi

I think some of that DNA Makes Me A Cherokee Princess thing stems from the despicable and fraught relationship White people have with their own whiteness. The One Drop laws, the “paper bag” tests, the which ethnic groups get taken under the white umbrella and when; all that got kinked and twisted into this perverse…