More Progressive Identity Theft: Top ‘Cherokee Intellectual’ Not Actually Cherokee.
Move over, Ward Churchill, Elizabeth Warren and Rachel Dolezal, there’s a new fraud in town.
The Daily Surge reports that Andrea Smith, a UC Riverside professor of media and cultural studies who is often described as a top “Cherokee Intellectual,” apparently isn’t a Cherokee at all.
She appears as a featured scholar at major events and has written books that were well-received by her colleagues. Her career has largely been defined by her supposed American Indian identity. Besides her academic work, she also helped create the organization INCITE!, which describes itself as a collection of “radical feminists of color.” She’s also been active in the Indian group Women of All Red Nations (WARN).
But according to many, Smith’s Cherokee identity is a complete sham. Much of the attack on Smith is coming from an anonymous but well-sourced Tumblr blog called Andrea Smith Is Not A Cherokee. Her Native American heritage has also been challenged in The Daily Beast, which quotes David Cornsilk, a Cherokee genealogist who says he researched undergraduate Smith’s heritage back in 1993 at her request. He unearthed absolutely no evidence of Cherokee heritage.
Anyone can be trans-Amerind,
don’cha know?
Well golly!
In a country where prezidents like Bubba Clinton and Burrock Hussein Mohammad can CLAIM (unchallenged) that they are Christian, where would you draw the line ?!
Another lying ugly progressive liberal with a mentall illness….
but but but she knows all the words to Cher’s Half Breed song doesn’t that count for something?
Anon you have a great point.
Why the aversion to DNA testing? 200$ and its over.
I know in my heart and soul that I really am Confucius.
Accept me as so. It’s my right.
“In 2008, her failed tenure bid at the University of Michigan caused a significant backlash, with activists claiming the school was marginalizing minority women.”
I call B.S…… UofM is the freakin’ bastard child of Gumby and Stretch Armstrong, they demonstrate such agility bending over backwards to accommodate progressive nonsense like this.
I officially declare that I “identify” as Southerner.
“Women of All RED Nations”???
So tell me again how “Redskins” is racist.
Not an injun and not an intellectual either.
How um you um like um that.
She’s a member in good standing of the Wishiwas tribe.
No casino money for her though.
Bint.
I’m a proud member of the Wopkraut tribe
Question: If I’m a man but feel like a woman that’s OK with the left. If I’m white but feel like I’m Hispanic, that’s OK with the left too.
However the left claims homosexuality is set at birth and it is IMPOSSIBLE to switch… so, what gives?
So I have to ask…..is this really a guy? Cause she looks like a man
Just saw this BFH
http://www.scotuspride.com/
You sound confuced.
But look at those cheekbones! It is amazing how the left always seems to find a get out of jail free card whenever they get caught lying.
My father’s family always thought they were related to Jesse Chisholm of the Chisholm Trail fame. He was thought to be part Cherokee. My dad had “high cheekbones and a prominent nose” (sound familiar?) Anyway, my husband did the genealogy and found nothing to support the relationship. It never even occurred to me to claim to be a minority anyway because my looks are so English/German. In any case, if true, what is the relationship, 1/32nd Cherokee? This is such nonsense. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think persons actually related to a native Indians peoples have their own identification cards. That should be the standard for claiming any kind of kinship.
I have had little success hiding my Indian heritage.
She be heap semi pretty white squaw. I am more American Indian than she is because my grandfather may have had some Indian blood. Wonder what kind of wampum they get in trade for white squaw? My late wife was thought to be an American Indian by some people because she had high cheekbones and she was white as white can be because of her English and Norwegian heritage. Maybe she can be the new Injun spokesbabe like Iron Eyes Cody who was an Italian from New Jersey. We could call her squaw lies a lot about her Injun heritage.
A definite member of the Whadafukawi tribe. They were always getting lost in the woods and asking whadafukawi?
I’m with Rush. I’m going to start identifying as skinny.
What did the Cherokees ever do to deserve a nutcase like her?
I must be in the minority but i think she’s kinda cute. But then my friends always told me they could put a buffalo in a skirt and I would hit it.
Whiskey will do that to ya.
The girls ALL look prettier at closing time.
Hey! They could make a country song about that!
I must admit… It’s good to have a 32″ waist again.
Especially not having to work for it.
I can relate. Long time sufferer of the dreaded Hawaiian disease Lackanookie.
Almost five years now.
I hear there’s a cure, but it takes someone else to make a sacrifice to make it happen. I’m probably doomed. 🙁
My first BiL was 1/2 native American. His daughter, my first niece, is like 1/4 Native American. Whatever a 1/2 mating with a non makes…
That niece has no idea about her true American Indian heritage, much less an ID card stating it.
I once had an Indian Head nickel and my sister lived in Indian Head, MD – does that entitle me to some Affirmative Action Free Shit?
Another Lesbo….hohmmmmmmmmmmm. NEXT!