The Elizabeth Warren Cherokee ancestry controversy continues – and I’m betting it will right up to election day. The following excerpt is from a piece written by William A. Jacobson, Associate Clinical Professor at Cornell Law School. In his article, Jacobson documents how Cherokee genealogist, Twila Barnes, has been harrassed about her genealogical findings.
I find it interesting how politics has such an overpowering sway on how folks think – and too often act… Some of the most hateful stuff on the Internet has been written because of the powerful emotions that political thought brings about. Not that I’m anti-politics, I just think it’s sad that we’ve become such a divided country, often writing cruel comments on the Internet, not seeming to remember that there’s always two sides to every issue – and our mother taught us to be kind.
Twila Barnes is a Cherokee genealogist who, along with her Cherokee genealogy team, has done more than anyone to document that Elizabeth Warren does not have Cherokee ancestry and that her family lore stories likely are false.
Barnes has published her findings in great detail with documentary back-up at her blog Thoughts from Polly’s Granddaughter.
