Months after the public first learned that Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren claimed to be Native American during the period in which she was hired to be a Harvard Law professor, questions about whether she cheated the affirmative action system in order to advance her career continue to hound her campaign.
[Scott] Brown pressed Warren about the issue during their first debate last week. Warren listed herself as a minority on law school directories, but has been unable to prove any Cherokee or Delaware tribe heritage.
Warren, during the Jim & Margery show on 96.9 WTKK this morning, addressed the issue when a caller asked her if she felt bad for checking the box in the law school directory and potentially taking an opportunity from a real Native American.
“I know what I know from my family. I didn’t check a box to go to college. I didn’t check a box to go to law school. The only box I checked was in a directory to help people find me. I didn’t take anyone else’s job,” she said. “I think it’s pretty clear, the job I got is the job I got because of my teaching qualifications.”
“I think the discussion has been ended I think the question has been asked and answered…”
Nevertheless, it seems, Massachusetts voters are still asking questions.
Warren’s campaign responded to initial questions about her background by claiming she was 1/32nd part Cherokee–those claims, after being widely repeated as fact by the media, turned out to be groundless. Investigations into her genealogical history have produced no native American roots. Neither has Warren produced any genetic evidence of her background. (A DNA test could validate her claims if there were any truth to them). To date, Warren has been unable to produce any evidence to back her claims to native American ancestry, other than to say that she has “high cheek bones.”
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