
Originally Posted by
Strike For The South
Getting caught up in percentages is part of the problem. There is many a white person in Oklahoma who claims to have Native ancestry.
Elizabeth Warren is a white woman, who looks like a white woman, who has lived life as a white woman, who society sees as a white woman. She has no connection to Natives peoples beyond her (very white) story about a distant Native relative. For her to claim she is Native is erasure of actual Native peoples. Americans using "Nativeness" as an aesthetic is a huge deal and that is exactly what happened here.
It is simply a bad look and really tone deaf on her part.
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