MSNBC analyst finds Cherokee Nation’s statement disavowing Elizabeth Warren ‘problematic’

[rangerrebew]

 MSNBC analyst finds Cherokee Nation’s statement disavowing Elizabeth Warren ‘problematic’

Posted at 7:58 pm on October 18, 2018 by Brett T.

As Twitchy reported, not long after Sen. Elizabeth Warren spiked the ball when a DNA test showed she could have as little as 1/1024th Native American heritage — less than the average white American — the Cherokee Nation put out a statement saying that “using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.”

We wondered which media outlet would be first to try to discredit the Cherokee Nation, and we think that honor goes to a Washington Post reporter who did some digging and found that back in 2012, the head of the Cherokee Nation “defended Warren and stressed that she never claimed to be a card-carrying member” — guess he never got his copy of the “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook. And this was before the DNA test fiasco.

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/10/18/msnbc-analyst-finds-cherokee-nations-statement-disavowing-elizabeth-warren-problematic/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget

[Jazzhead]

Warren actually got it right when she noted that membership in the Cherokee nation was up to the tribe because it was "sovereign" and therefore had the right to determine who is, and who is not, a Cherokee.

And so does the United States of America.