>People will spin this as if she was going around looking for
>affirmative action. But from what I understand in both these
>cases the identity is just for institutional bookkeeping and
>wasn't even filled out until after the fact (that is, after
>she was hired by Harvard, and after she was admitted to the
>Bar).
>
>It sounds like both of these cases were just her playing out
>some family legend that she liked. A lot of people *think*
>they have native ancestry, and a lot of people exaggerate what
>little they have. I smh that someone as smart as her would go
>so far as to flatly call herself "American Indian," though.
>That's approaching Dolezal level.

Yeah, it really does seem like some family pride legend shit that, apparently, got out of hand.

And, yes, she looks fairly stupid on this.

>
>Obviously she wasn't planning to enter politics. As much as I
>like the idea of an academic in the Presidency, I didn't see
>how she would overcome this when it was just the one case. By
>now I think it's time for her to figure out who else to
>endorse, and start angling for Treasury Sec, Fed Chair, CFPB
>chair, or something like that.
>

Yep. I was even starting to convince myself recently that maybe she could get past it, at least to make it relatively far in the primary...but...lol.

I agree she should figure out who to endorse, and I am pretty interested to see who that would be actually.