Warren listed herself as white on University of Texas employment paperwork

[TexasTowelie]

Elizabeth Warren, who listed her race as American Indian on a registration card for the State Bar of Texas in 1986, identified herself as white when she filled out employment paperwork for teaching law at the University of Texas.

Records obtained by the American-Statesman under the Texas Public Information Act also show that Warren, now a senator from Massachusetts running for the Democratic presidential nomination, was listed as white on 1981 accounting paperwork signed by John F. Sutton Jr., dean of UT’s School of Law at the time.

Warren has been ridiculed by some political opponents, most notably President Donald Trump, for claiming American Indian ancestry, and she has apologized for doing so. In October, she disclosed DNA test results showing that she had a distant Native American ancestor; Cherokee leaders responded by noting that tribes set criteria for lineage.

The UT records do not make it clear when she filled out the one-page form with questions about gender and race. She had been teaching law at the University of Houston when she took a visiting professorship at UT from 1981 to 1982.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/20190213/warren-listed-herself-as-white-on-ut-employment-paperwork

[guillaumeb]

1. I classify Warren as a Democrat.

Anything lese is secondary.

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[ananda]

5. And all people as human!

Nt

[sheshe2]

2. Fug trump.

Has he apologized for claiming to be a human being? Lay off my Senator, trump.

[peggysue2]

3. I've thought from the start that . . .

this 'controversy' was dumb. But the longer it goes on the dumber it gets because the Trumpster just can't help himself with the snide Native American comments and his all time favorite shout & hoot of Pocahontas.

Warren may have been clumsy with the DNA rollout, an unforced, unneeded error for any presidential hopeful. But Trump's harangue is filled with malice and bigotry.

This is simply Warren's version of but . . .but her emails with a nasty, hurtful, racist edge that the Trumpster and his supporters appear to love.

Here's hoping the whole thing blows back on them, the way it did on Scott Brown.

[uponit7771]

6. Isn't this another "but her emails" !? tia

[gratuitous]

8. One more time about the Texas Bar registration

The information, by the card's own terms, was being gathered for statistical purposes.* Warren listed herself as American Indian so the Texas Bar would have more complete information about its membership. A good organization like the Texas Bar Association wants to know as much as it can about its members so it can tailor its programs to best benefit identifiable groups in its diverse membership. Warren received no consideration for the disclosure, it didn't earn her affirmative action points, it was simply information about herself that the Bar could use to better know who all of its members are.

*Also, by the card's terms, the information on it wasn't to be disclosed to anyone else without the lawyer's express written consent. Somehow that got lost in the leakitude.