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Liz Warren — now dubbed Rachel Dolezal — can’t hide from fake heritage claim

MAY 31, 2019: iHeart Radio’s “The Breakfast Club” hosted MA Sen. and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on May 31, 2019 and wide range of topics from wealth taxes to her DNA test on a native American controversy. Host Charlamagne Tha God listens as Warren explains a point during the interview. Courtesy of The Breakfast Club/iHeart Radio
By JOE BATTENFELD | joe.battenfeld@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: May 31, 2019 at 7:32 pm | UPDATED: June 1, 2019 at 5:35 am
Pocahontas, step aside. There’s a new nickname following Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign: Rachel Dolezal.

And unlike the original Pocahontas, Dolezal was not a hero, but a fraud.

Warren, appearing on a popular New York-based radio show, “The Breakfast Club,” was compared to Dolezal, the infamous former NAACP leader later proven to be white, during an uncomfortable interview with host Charlamagne tha God.

The exchange showed that the Native American ancestry claims made by Warren aren’t going away anytime soon, despite the Massachusetts senator’s attempts to avoid the controversy or drown it out with policy proposals.

“You’re kind of like the original Rachel Dolezal, a little bit. Rachel Dolezal was a white woman who pretended to be black.” Charlamagne says unhelpfully.

“No, this is what I learned from my family,” a visibly uncomfortable Warren says.

This was clearly not your usual easy interview with Stephen Colbert.

“Like, why did you do that?” Charlamagne bluntly asked about Warren’s past claims to be an American Indian.

“So it’s what I believe,” a somewhat stunned Warren responded. “It’s what I learned from my family.”


But it didn’t end there. The host insisted on prodding Warren more about whether she got any “benefits” to claiming to be a Cherokee Indian.

“The Boston Globe did a full investigation,” Warren weakly responded, repeating what has been her go-to phrase to show she never got promoted or hired because she claimed to be a minority.

“I’m not a person of color, I’m not a citizen of a tribe and I shouldn’t have done it,” Warren said in what amounts to the closest she’s come to admitting what she did was wrong.

“Wait, your family told you you were Native American?,” Charlamagne asks.

“Yeah.” Warren says.

“Yeah?” Charlamagne repeats.

“Yeah,” Warren responds.

Awkward.

Warren’s campaign actually had showed a little momentum lately, but this damaging interview puts an end to that. It’s a lesson to Warren that she’s never going to be able to escape from her fraudulent past.

With the Democratic presidential debates coming up in a few weeks, Warren may find herself the target of one of her opponents, and the Dolezal moniker might find itself into the next stump speech of Trump.

And unlike the “Pocahontas” insults coming from President Trump, this time the Native American controversy was resurrected by the black host of a syndicated show that the Cambridge Democrat should have been able to handle easily.

But it shows that for Warren, danger lurks around every corner, even ones that seem safe

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Originally posted by TMats:
Apparently, it never occurred to her to...look in the mirror

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Politicians, especially dems, can’t even face themselves.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Families do espouse legends and firmly believe them. I was always told that I had roots back to Samuel Webster and some obscure President (don't remember which one--Buchanan, maybe). I've done genealogy and have not found confirmation of either one. (Daniel Boone was a very distant relative, though.) flashguy