She has bristled at being called “Fauxcahontas,” but now a bonafide, red-blooded descendent of the seventeenth century Powhatan princess, Pocahontas, is demanding that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) put her wampum where her mouth is.
Debbie “White Dove” Porreco, is joining an ever-growing chorus of people challenging Warren to take a DNA test and prove her claimed Amercian Indian ancestry.
Warren claimed to being part Cherokee when entering her biographical information into a job database for law professors in the 1980s. It helped launch her career.
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“I respect Senator Warren as a U.S. senator … but I just wish she’d take the DNA test,” Porreco told Fox News host, Tucker Carlson.
“If she was American Indian, I would be the first one to welcome her into our heritage,” she added.
Seems simple enough.
Porreco said that conducting such a test would “end a lot of this controversy” about whether Warren’s career was wrongfully helped along by being spotlighted as a minority hire at Harvard.
She also implored Warren to stop whining that President Trump’s nickname for, “Pocahontas,” is in any way a racial slur, as the senator has alleged.
Pocahontas is at it again! Goofy Elizabeth Warren, one of the least productive U.S. Senators, has a nasty mouth. Hope she is V.P. choice.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 10, 2016
When Trump referred to Warren as Pocahontas at an event honoring American Indian veterans, she railed, “Donald Trump just couldn’t make it through without adding a racist slur to the event.”
Porreco insists the name is not nor should it be considered a “racial slur.”
In previous interviews, Porreco has said: “If Pocahontas were alive today, she would be very proud of President Trump.”
The descendant of the Powhatan princess isn’t the first to suggest a DNA test. Independent U.S. Senate candidate Shiva Ayyadurai has relentlessly hounded Warren over her specious claims. His campaign slogan – “Only a real Indian can defeat a fake Indian” – is itself a direct shot at Warren.
Even a liberal newspaper in the senator’s home state, The Berkshire Eagle, has declared it’s time for her to settle the dispute. The paper’s advice was simple: “Spit into a tube, wait a few weeks, and get her answer.”
Warren, knowing she can’t back up her claim unless she does indeed submit to a DNA test, has explained: “You won’t find my family members on any rolls, and I’m not enrolled in a tribe.”
Pretty convincing evidence.
Cross posted at the Mental Recession
