Ken Burns Presents: Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Trail of Tears

Dearest Campaign Manager

Though the weather has been temperate this Massachusetts spring, my heart is a tempest.

I cannot rest easy when I think upon the impertinence of those who would disparage my proud Cherokee lineage.

What more testimony do they require? Native American has been a part of my story since the day of my birth. It has been with me in brilliant days and darkest nights. It has been my badge in professional directories lo these 20 years, in the fervent hope that it would bring me to the Ivy League luncheons I so ardently desired.

As you well know, my Papaw had high cheekbones like all of the Indians do.

I remember with tenderness the days spent pondering recipes with my cousin for "Pow Wow Chow." Enclosed please find a copy of this volume, vouchsafed for you as shelter against the storm of censure we must endure on this, our own unhappy trail.

I would appeal to Divine Providence, but I have not yet focus-grouped that phrase, and fear it would fall heavy on the ears of the urbane, white, liberal vote which is my bastion and my daily comfort.

With fondest hopes for the future blueness of our state, I am ever your candidate,

Elizabeth Warren

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[Greg Halvorson]

If it wasn't for double-standards, Democrats would have no standards at all. 

[Aintry1]

Lol. Imagined David McCullough narration: "When Elizabeth Warren entered law school, Al Gore had just invented the internet. Barack Obama hadn't yet settled on a name, or a birthplace. Journalism schools around the country were discussing theories that would eventually lead the creation of the first "white Hispanic" decades later. And people began paying $2.00 for a 12-ounce bottle of water."

[Dealit707]

A tear comes to my eye....What a FAKE!!

[TheNavigateur]

You're so easily lied to. And your priorities are all backwards. JUSTICE must be the first imperative of everyone. Any politician who fights for justice, e.g. Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama etc. is attacked by the anti-justice media and corporate propaganda who don't WANT justice. That's because those propagandists would be a lot richer if their priorities were enacted. So you have to understand what's going on. It's a simple profit-motive of the right-wing (anti-justice) propagandists. Wake up.

[anoldsoldierboy]

You mean like Eric Holder being held in contempt for fast and Furious , or was it when Holder pardoned the two black panther thugs who we arrested for voter intimidation, You have a funny view or "right and wrong". Warren is NOT or has she EVER been even part Cherokee, Obama is not (by his own words) a natural born citizen, his father (in his book) was a Kenyan citizen at the time of his birth. Yeah..you got your priorities in order just like a good socialist drone

[Scott Johnson]

Elizabeth Warren ancestors has been proven to be white with no ties with the Cherokees.The documents proves her stories claiming to be Cherokee are false.The Cherokees are very well documented and we don't claim her!!!!

[TheNavigateur]

Elizabeth Warren DOES have native American lineage but that had NOTHING to do with why she was hired at Harvard as it wasn't even mentioned until after she was already hired. And Barack Obama IS American. It's strange times when people believe fabricated lies by anti-justice propagandists against 2 of the only politicians who are fighting for justice and equal opportunity in the USA. It's truly a sign of the power of the anti-justice (aka right-wing) propaganda movement in the USA.