Elizabeth Warren Refuses to Say She's a Minority

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...after claiming minority status at Harvard.

11:11 AM, Jul 11, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN

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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts refused to tell CNN's Dana Bash that she's a minority, despite the fact that the Democratic Senate candidate was once listed as a Native American at Harvard, where she is a law professor. The Free Beacon has CNN's video:

BASH: Harvard administrators say they didn’t know Warren claimed Native American heritage before hiring her. It’s still raw. Warren bristles when asked if she considers herself a minority.

BASH: So you don’t want to put a label on it?

WARREN: Nope. This is part of who I am. This is who I am.

Warren has cited family lore as evidence of her Native American heritage, though there has been no genealogical evidence that her ancestors were Cherokees.