They do. Exactly. And while I like her for being a fighter - this isn’t her fight. And while she argues this is about ancestry and not being NA, this is an issue that NA people want to be able to judge since they have to have agency regarding who is eligible for any benefits (such as) and protections.

I suspect that some Indian Tribes have concerns about the very notion of DNA testing.

Honestly, the thing that aggravates me the most about this is that I really thought that she was smarter than this.

Gawker Was Good 

Maybe it’s not the reporting on Democrats doing horrible things that’s crushing voter enthusiasm. Maybe it’s Democrats doing horrible things that’s crushing voter enthusiasm.

Powerful piece, Nick. Thanks for writing.

This is not a game of Who’s More Native? It is a simple question of to whom Elizabeth Warren feels responsible to when she travels to Washington. If her record is any indication, it is not Native peoples.

This is the most “white people shit” ever. A couple generations ago, a single drop of Native blood would get you thrown out of the family. Now she wants to “claim” it so she can wear it like a scarf.

Gotta say, as someone agnostic on Warren, I am astounded that she was tone-deaf and ignorant enough to go full Blood Quantum/Race Science on this. What an absolutely embarrassing own goal. There were people defending this here on the original piece, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how/why.

There’s really no positive spin on this. I never thought she was going to be a real serious candidate in 2020 (because she’s old and not a very good politician), but holy shit, this was a terribly dumb thing to do. Even as a cynical ploy to troll the president it makes no sense that she thought she would come out of…

Who could have possibly predicted that Trump and his fellow Republicans would not believe the evidence meant to counter an argument made entirely in bad faith?

This is also why Warren shouldn’t run. It’s more Boomer vs Boomer shit tied to mid-20th century ideas of cultural identity and 19th-century scientific racism.

I don’t understand what she’s trying to achieve, and I don’t know what anybody is supposed to take away from that fact that she has a holistic amount of Native American DNA. Suppose her great grandfather was Cherokee or whatever. What does any of that have to do with anything? She hasn’t lived her life according to…

This just a tiny taste of what is in store should Warren actually run in 2020.

So you think police refuse to do their job and are willing to place people in danger if they feel like they aren’t being “respected?”

I hate to break it you Charlie Brown, but...you’re never going to get to kick that football unless you punch Lucy in the mouth and take it from her.

Great. Why do you visit a site you hate so much? One that clearly and openly supports leftist position?

This thing right here. This is one of the dozen reason why I have said that Hillary was a lousy candidate, to which I usually get called a troll, a misogynist, or something including the words asshole or fuck-something.

so what you’re saying is, this whole DNA test thing is a net positive. i just want to get this straight

Hillary and Bill need to go away and enjoy their unfathomable wealth and never be heard from again. They are not helping!