So Elizabeth Warren finally took a DNA test, and is now running ads and crowing about her Native heritage/DNA.
Why? B/c she's somewhere between 1/64th and 1/1024th native. Somewhere 6-10 generations back there is some mix there, but it doesn't discern North from South American so it could be someone who is majority white but with some South American blood in there somewhere, mestizo, which seems more likely given the numbers.
Anyway, she thinks this is a vindication, or at least she thinks this is enough to sell a vindication and try to put the question to bed pending her Presidential run.
IMO, this only makes her look more foolish. For anyone to claim they have Native (or any other ancestry) based on being less than 1% relation is absurd on its face. We all have some minor percentage of blood from all over by now, at least most of us.
And this is backed up by a 2011 study of 160,000 people that shows that on average us Euro Americans are like .18% Native blood. She's really only about half of the average of modern white Americans.
When I was a kid it was cool to claim you had Indian blood, don't ask me why but it was. The irony of American culture is that it's always had a certain nostalgia for Native cultures.
Anyway, this to me sounds like when I was 6 years old on the bus and someone arguing their great great great grandpa was a native chief.
She just needs to let it go. In that respect she's as hard headed as Trump. Cut your losses, say that's what you were told as a kid and clearly there was some exaggeration, that it happens in every family, and move on. But like Trump she just can't let go, say she was wrong and own up.
Oh, and I'm glad she's doing this now. Should have waited another week or so before the midterms, but I'll take it.
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