From the "Serious or Sarcasm?", files: Elizabeth Warren May Be Making U.S. History As The First Trans-Racial Senator
But here’s what makes all of this so interesting: sure, Warren might not have more than 1 percent American Indian DNA, but who is to say that’s not enough? In an era when gender has become a choice, why not race?
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Warren may be our first transracial senator. Although nature may have assigned her European ancestry, she nevertheless identified with Native American culture to such an extent that she contributed a recipe called ”Pow Wow Chow” to a cookbook. Now, before you get offended by her appropriation of Cherokee culture, she’s actually allegedly guilty of stealing many elements of the “Cherokee” recipes by plagiarizing French chefs. No word on her percentage of French DNA.
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The president should stop criticizing Warren. She is a pioneer leading the way to a society in which race is no longer destiny. ... Self-determined racial identity represents an existential threat to political power based upon racial grievances.
The transracial phenomenon has tied academics in knots as they openly debate how to deal with “ethnic fraud,” the practice of falsely claiming to be from an ethnic group or racial identity. The consensus appears to be that if a student claims to be African American, for example, there’s nothing a university can legally do to challenge it. While Warren voluntarily submitted to a DNA test, requiring such a test of a college or job applicant claiming minority status could run afoul the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidance on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
Pay up, President Trump. Warren has transitioned her racial identity.
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Warren may be our first transracial senator. Although nature may have assigned her European ancestry, she nevertheless identified with Native American culture to such an extent that she contributed a recipe called ”Pow Wow Chow” to a cookbook. Now, before you get offended by her appropriation of Cherokee culture, she’s actually allegedly guilty of stealing many elements of the “Cherokee” recipes by plagiarizing French chefs. No word on her percentage of French DNA.
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The president should stop criticizing Warren. She is a pioneer leading the way to a society in which race is no longer destiny. ... Self-determined racial identity represents an existential threat to political power based upon racial grievances.
The transracial phenomenon has tied academics in knots as they openly debate how to deal with “ethnic fraud,” the practice of falsely claiming to be from an ethnic group or racial identity. The consensus appears to be that if a student claims to be African American, for example, there’s nothing a university can legally do to challenge it. While Warren voluntarily submitted to a DNA test, requiring such a test of a college or job applicant claiming minority status could run afoul the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidance on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
Pay up, President Trump. Warren has transitioned her racial identity.
