Cherokee Nation, cont’d
That was then:
In a 1998 editorial celebrating the law school’s award of tenure to — how to put it? — great legal scholar Lani Guinier, the
Harvard Crimson noted: “Harvard Law School currently has only one tenured minority woman, Gottlieb Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren, who is Native American.”
Now how do you suppose the Crimson knew that? I’m afraid that will remain a mystery greater than Warren’s Indian roots.
It was nevertheless great of the Crimson to identify Warren’s ethnicity. Readers might otherwise have missed it. We have never seen a woman whiter than Elizabeth Warren.
And Now:
Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report — but school officials and campaign aides for Elizabeth Warren refused to say yesterday whether it refers to the Democratic Senate candidate.
Warren — who has been dogged by questions about whether she used her claims of Cherokee lineage to further her career — has insisted she never authorized Harvard Law to count her as a Native American in the mid-1990s, when the school was under fire for not having enough minority professors.
And the esttemed Ms. Warren's comment:
"i have high cheekbones" like most indians presumably and she likes feathers too.
