I DUNNO, SHE’S A LOT WHITER THAN GEORGE ZIMMERMAN: Elizabeth Warren, Affirmative Action Baby?

Plus, I, for one, salute Harvard Law School for having the courage to hire Professor Dances-With-Occupiers. In her defense, most people with Cherokee ancestry would be hard pressed to produce paperwork to prove it. To be a member of the tribe officially, you’ve got to trace yourself to an ancestor on the Dawes Roll, but plenty of bona fide Cherokees were never on that registry, and many — quite possibly most — people with Cherokee ancestry don’t belong to the tribe. And plenty look thoroughly white, though perhaps not as white as Elizabeth Warren.