American academia is noted for the decades-old scam of claiming kinship with a Native American tribe to present yourself as a “minority” and improve your chances of getting hired (and later promoted, of course) by an uppercrust whitebread institution anxious to add another minority notch to their quota belt. The fact that they can do it without hiring an ACTUAL minority member is probably one of the fringe benefits to the pompous, spoiled fools of Ivory Towerland in the United States.
Elizabeth Warren is the latest American who seems more overlord than underdog to come under scrutiny for claiming descent from Native Americans. She says she’s one thirty-secondth Cherokee and Continue reading
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