1/ It's sad that #ElizabethWarren opted to play the #BloodQuantum game to prove ancestral indigeneity and one-up Trump. First, the very notion of blood quantum is some white folk bullshit, created largely to limit indigenous land claims & rights. What this means is...
2/ ...in effect, Warren just used a scientific racist notion to ostensibly prove her indigeneity all so she could embrass Trump, or avoid being attacked for "faking" that ancestry when she runs for POTUS...
3/ But by doing that, she has reinforced the racist notion that race is "in the blood," which notion has never worked out well for the victims of structural white supremacy...
4/ And even worse, to claim that having ONE indigenous ancestor in your lineage 6-10 generations ago validly renders you indigenous is preposterous and offensive. She is fully functional as a white person in this society...
5/ To glom onto indigeneity to score political points or embarass Trump is to use indian peoples for one's own gain, and lay claim to a culture you do not live, as well as a burden you do not experience. It was, ironically (or not) a very white thing to do in that regard...
6/...not unlike hanging a dreamcatcher from your rear view and claiming that your great great great grandmother was a Cherokee princess when she damned sure well was not..
7/ Warren and other white liberals need to be reminded, apparently, that just as indian folk are not mascots, they also ought not be political pawns for use against one's opponents, even when that opponent is a racist (and actually especially then) ...END
