Buried in the Boston Globe story is this bombshell: "To make up for the dearth of Native American DNA, Bustamante used samples from Mexico, Peru, and Colombia to stand in for Native American."
Note, this is a comment from Vox Day's blog, I've not bothered to confirm its veracity.
This reminds me of the South Park episode where people were claiming to be x% victim.I am 1% east African...payday!!
I can't get this song out of my head.
I believe the issue is that Warren herself has been using this as political leverage. And it was she that produced the DNA test.I think this is just another example of taking ones statement and blowing it out of proportion for political purposes. Who really cares one way or another at what point one is of a certain lineage. If this is the only "lie" the other side can find against her the other side looses their claimed superior character, jmho.
Agreed. The major issue is that she is claiming minority status off highly objectionable results. I think that is pretty shitty. As being part Cherokee myself, and actually looking the part, we were raised to never take handouts or use that as leverage in advancement.
I don't think there is a single DNA test that has claimed that level of accuracy she is claiming to have identified such a distant relative. The only way to do so that far out would be to have a legally traceable lineage from birth certificates of an actual ancestor. Most company's worth their word will tell you results that are less than 10% are possibly suspect.
Is it racist to say that I can’t tell how old he is from his picture? He claims to have invented email, and I was using email in the late 1970’s so he must be about 65, but I don’t think he looks 50. Maybe she’s lying about her heritage and he’s lying about his accomplishments.FWIW Warren has a real Indian running against her for Senate as an independent
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Is it racist to say that I can’t tell how old he is from his picture? He claims to have invented email, and I was using email in the late 1970’s so he must be about 65, but I don’t think he looks 50. Maybe she’s lying about her heritage and he’s lying about his accomplishments.
Someone lying on their resume? And politicians no less? You must be kidding.Is it racist to say that I can’t tell how old he is from his picture? He claims to have invented email, and I was using email in the late 1970’s so he must be about 65, but I don’t think he looks 50. Maybe she’s lying about her heritage and he’s lying about his accomplishments.