"Pocohantas" In Heap Big Poo-Poo

 Senator Elizabeth Warren

Does Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren really have Native American blood running through her veins?   Only if you have an electron microscope!

Senator Warren claims experts say the Native American gene databases are too thin to make definitive conclusions about ancestry as far back in a person's lineage as she has claimed.  So how dare this "law professor" make such a claim?

Warren's renewed claims to Native American heritage touch on a delicate subject among U.S. geneticists who study indigenous genomics. Several  dozen scientists and experts interviewed by ABC News asked to talk anonomously, "...to speak frankly and avoid political backfire." 

As genealogy databases have grown in recent years, Native American tribes have been inundated by DNA test result-toting Caucasians seeking tribal certification for everything from eligibility for school scholarships to tax relief.  A new science racket?  Move over "climate changers!  There's real money here!" 

Warren has been dogged by assertions she descended from Native Americans ever since her successful 2012 Senate run, during which a 1996 article quoted a Harvard Law School spokesperson as saying Warren was America's first Native American college department Chair!   A fact they proudly published in the course catalog!  False advertising?  It is illegal nine ways!

The U.S. Senator changed her ethnicity from "White" to "Native American" while at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she taught from 1987 to 1995, and at Harvard Law School, where she was given the post of Chair of the Law School, for a rather grand $350,000 per year, netting $2.4 million over seven years because she was a "Native American."  Harvard has long been bent-over-double with "elitist" and "white privilege" guilt.  

Something is very wrong at Harvard as they fired President Larry Summers for having said "Woman are less interested in science and engineering courses," which is a fact, but the heads of Harvard College have their heads up their Crimson butts over race and gender issues.

Meanwhile Harvard culls Oriental American applications with a number of test and admission tricks they are now defending in Federal Court. The bottom line on race/gender political values at Harvard is insane.  Clearly the school is down-the-toilet.

As if this were not bad enough, Elizabeth Warren has done much to make a bad situation worse.  She recently said, "Being Native American is part of who our family is." and "Let me be clear, I never asked for, never got any benefit because of my heritage.  The people who hired me have all said they didn't even know about it."  We think $2.4 million is a significant "benefit" and why did Harvard publish that she was a "Native American" in their catalog if it was not the reason they hired her?

National Geographic has a DNA analysis service for some spit and $59.95, but Elizabeth Warren went to Stanford University for an expensive, private analysis done by Dr. Carlos Bustamante who fumbled it by not using native North American native DNA standards like National Geographic. He instead used Central American DNA data references!  This not only negates the Warren analysis by definition, but brings into question the reason for avoiding North American data when it is readily available and was when I took the test ten years ago.

The Bustamante test determined with "...high confidence, she is likely  between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American," adding Warren "absolutely a Native American ancestor in pedigree...likely in the range of 6-10 generations."  Need we say this is insane?

And, it is ridiculous as "between 1/64th and 1/1024th" is not data in which any scientist would have any, much less "high confidence." Anyone who has had even one college Statistics course knows this is ridiculous.   The one thing in which we can have  "high confidence" is that the Bustamante fee for this service was substantial if not outrageous.  As if this was not enough Elizabeth Warren released the following:

"Let me be clear. I never asked for, never got any benefit because of my heritage. The people who hired me have all said they didn’t even know about it."

The polite adjective is "disingenuous."  The rude, impolite, appropriate  adjectives are many, but this claim was worth $2.4 million and a lot of prestige to Elizabeth Warren, let us be clear!

The National Geographic Society has had trouble getting Native American spit samples for 13 years due to tribal mistrust.  Now all they have to do is put up posters of Elizabeth Warren!   It is true the $59.95 National Geographic Service test database is substantially better than that used by the infinitely more expensive Stanford Ph.D. which confesses the test was not the objective.

The Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs requires 1/4 "Indian blood," genetic chromosomal content, to be identified "native American."  Where Mrs. Warren's Ph.D. expert declared she is 1/1024th, eight generations beyond the legally required level, but not the Harvard College level, our oldest, most prestigious institution of higher learning now falling down stupid in terminal political correctness, throwing away millions of Dollars to an undocumented, unsupported claimant! Or, should we say huckster? That such an institution should be wasting millions of Federal tax Dollars on shysters must be  investigated and prosecuted including con artists like "Pocohantas" Elizabeth Warren!

Adrian Vance