The United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that colleges and universities cannot make admissions decisions on the basis of race, setting off a wave of outraged progressives.
Among the outraged: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a white woman who for years pretended to be Native American as a lawyer and later a professor at Harvard University.
Warren has said she never used her fake ancestry to benefit from affirmative action, but the university touted her as a minority hire. She made nearly $430,000 per year.
The elaborate ruse began as early as 1984, when Warren submitted supposedly indigenous recipes for a Native American cookbook — Pow Wow Chow.
The recipes, including one for a cold crab omelet, were actually plagiarized from a French chef.
In 1986, Warren listed her ancestry as “American Indian” on her State Bar of Texas registration card.
In 1992, Harvard hired Warren on a temporary basis. Warren accepted a tenured teaching position in 1995. A year later, the Harvard Crimson was touting her as a woman of color.
In addition to her massive salary, Warren received Harvard’s help vis-a-vis a tax free mortgage for a house in Cambridge.
At the time, the prestigious Ivy League institution was under fire for being too white, and affirmative action was increasingly becoming a sacred cow on the left.
Warren has said she never used her fictional Cherokee heritage to gain advantages when applying for jobs. However, Harvard identified her as a Native American in its federal affirmative action reports to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
On October 10, 2018, Warren endeavored to prove skeptics of her claims wrong as she prepared a presidential run. She released results of a DNA test which, she claimed, proved that she was right all along.
The DNA test gambit backfired spectacularly.
Critics pointed out that the report for the test showed that someone ten generations back might have been from Peru or Mexico, making her 1/1024th Native American — maybe.
Tribal groups lambasted Warren. She would later apologize at a Native American forum for wagging the test around as if it was proof that she wasn’t a white lady.
With affirmative action now scrapped, gone also will be any incentive to pretend to be a disadvantaged race in order to receive preferential treatment from elite institutions.
Yet the Left circled the wagons to protect her. She’s still in the senate, like it never happened.