Minority Rules: Who Gets To Claim Status As A Person Of Color?
This is meant to defend Warren. One thing stood out to me....
Minority Rules: Who Gets To Claim Status As A Person Of Color?
"Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren isn't backing down from her claim of Native American ancestry, despite the apparent lack of primary documents proving that she's 1/32nd Cherokee.
The controversy surrounding Warren's heritage led us to wonder - how much of a racial or ethnic heritage constitutes minority status? Should percentages of a bloodline matter at all?"
"Today, some people have flipped the 'one-drop rule' to claim minority status to try to gain perceived advantages in scholarships, college admission and in the workplace. In response, the Coalition of Bar Associations of Color passed a resolution last year urging law schools to treat the practice of 'box checking' as 'academic ethnic fraud.'"
The leftist can't even call it an advantage despite listing some of them and the fact people are lying to get them. Orwellian.
"That proof of Warren's heritage is now in question, but Warren has said she remains 'proud' of it. Her campaign strategist says Warren learned about her background 'through conversations with her grandparents, her parents and her aunts and uncles.' By some people's definitions of racial identity, that's enough to classify her as Native American.
But personal preferences and percentage don't seem to matter as much as perception. For the columnists making 'warpath' and 'wampum' jokes about Warren's claims of heritage, the problem may be that she simply 'looks white.'"
Minority Rules: Who Gets To Claim Status As A Person Of Color?
"Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren isn't backing down from her claim of Native American ancestry, despite the apparent lack of primary documents proving that she's 1/32nd Cherokee.
The controversy surrounding Warren's heritage led us to wonder - how much of a racial or ethnic heritage constitutes minority status? Should percentages of a bloodline matter at all?"
"Today, some people have flipped the 'one-drop rule' to claim minority status to try to gain perceived advantages in scholarships, college admission and in the workplace. In response, the Coalition of Bar Associations of Color passed a resolution last year urging law schools to treat the practice of 'box checking' as 'academic ethnic fraud.'"
The leftist can't even call it an advantage despite listing some of them and the fact people are lying to get them. Orwellian.
"That proof of Warren's heritage is now in question, but Warren has said she remains 'proud' of it. Her campaign strategist says Warren learned about her background 'through conversations with her grandparents, her parents and her aunts and uncles.' By some people's definitions of racial identity, that's enough to classify her as Native American.
But personal preferences and percentage don't seem to matter as much as perception. For the columnists making 'warpath' and 'wampum' jokes about Warren's claims of heritage, the problem may be that she simply 'looks white.'"