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My family has said for years that we were:

I was at a family dinner recently and my grandparents OF COURSE brought politics up and they were talking about how us grandkids are more Native American than Elizabeth Warren, and I was like, “...I’m nearly 30 years old and have literally never heard anyone bring this up. What tribe are we from?”

Cherokee, obviously.…

And, if there is no way for you to claim native blood, people get creative.

Claiming part Native ancestry is what white people do to deflect feelings of white privilege. It’s an easy and generally unverifiable way to pretend that you are a minority.

Eh, it’s a way for white people to feel “cool” and “exotic” without having to actually, you know, deal with the systemic discrimination

Yeah, I grew up telling everyone and their dog that I was part Indian because my father whom I hadn’t seen since I was 4 was supposedly part Native American. I couldn’t for the life of me have told you which tribe. I stopped that shit when we started being more culturally sensitive, but I genuinely wouldn’t have seen…

I agree with this. I love Warren and all but seriously white people, stop claiming you are Native Americans because grandma told you a story. That’s a no.

I think there’s a lesson here for everyone. Unless you know...absolutely 100% for certain that you have Native American ancestors, don’t embarrass yourself by insisting you do. If if your grandma always insists that her great grandmother was a Cherokee princess, just nod and smile. She probably has no idea what she’s…

That’s generally what most if us have. But the number of people whose families claim some Cherokee heritage doesn’t really match with the actual number of Cherokee and generally involve improbable or impossible connections.

I think there’s a lesson here for everyone. Unless you know...absolutely 100% for certain that you have Native American ancestors, don’t embarrass yourself by insisting you do. If if your grandma always insists that her great grandmother was a Cherokee princess, just nod and smile. She probably has no idea what she’s…

Not that hard to do when you are thinking about it. Harder when you are not. Oh, you might try to blame the operators in this case, but if it weren’t a fault in the vehicle, we’d be seeing similar numbers of incidents with more traditional systems.

Fucking bullshit facebook. Get your shit together.

I’ve gotten to the point of just really hating this fucking piece of shit. It’s too visceral at this point for me, so I see no need to be articulate about him. Fuck him and fuck every traitorous American who supports this childish, lying, egotistical dumbass.

I think there’s a level people are skipping over here. I may get some flack over this, but I think there’s validity to it. By several accounts, Depp is deteriorating due to addiction. His mother died very recently. For anyone who’s known someone with serious addiction issues, is it really shocking that a grieving,…

And yet the police found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Depp when they showed up. Heard then posted pics DAYS later. Looks suspicious on her part, unless you’re claiming the police left when she had obvious facial contusions

Add in Hollywood money and power, and I don’t believe the police. I don’t know what happened, one way or another, but I don’t think the police’s account is necessarily trustworthy.

No hate on Angie or the work she does for women’s rights, but as a Normal currently suffering through a PhD I cannot roll my eyes hard enough at this.

I once got to have an amazing dinner with Bourdain, Neil Jordan and Susannah Clarke (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell author) along with other book-y types. Then got sloshed with Bourdain, Malcolm Gladwell and Antonio Damasio and a colleague. It was a pretty epic night and I am proud to say that I held my own,…

Ugggggghhhhh I'm going to miss Obama so much. How much fun would it have been grabbing a beer with those two?