REPORT: Cherokee Professor Blasts Warren Campaign For Disrespecting Him

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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A Cherokee Nation member who has been critical of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D., Mass.) claims of Native American heritage said he was disrespected by the senator’s presidential campaign.

Joseph Pierce, an associate professor at Stony Brook University in New York, tweeted Saturday that a Warren team member had tried to convince him to vote for Warren during a campaign drive earlier that day. Pierce said the Massachusetts senator had not done enough to “right the harm she has caused,” referring to the decades of claims of Cherokee heritage for which Warren apologized only this year.

The article goes on to state the following:

The Warren staffer took Pierce to another team member, who, Pierce wrote, promised to make “real time” for him. Pierce said the staffer was dismissive when Pierce said he was “pissed” about Warren’s claims.

Pierce tweeted:

So, irony of ironies: There was an @ewarren campaign, recruitment thing on my block today, and when I walked outside, a guy tried to convince me to vote for her. I said, “I’m Cherokee and she hasn’t done enough to right the harm she has caused.” AND THEN the guy said that he would take me to someone “who could get the word to Elizabeth.”

Intrigued, I go with him, and its a white guy with a beard, and we interrupt his conversation, because its important, and I say, “I’m Cherokee” and he nods. He says that he wants to “make real time for me” and if he can have my number so we can talk later. I say, “this really pisses me off”. And then things change: he can see that I’m upset, and then tries to figure out if I am worth talking to after all.

He says, “I’m not sure there is anything I can do for you”. And it dawns on me, yes, I am upset, perhaps I’m not willing to have this conversation, perhaps I just want to yell. So I say, “tell her, tell someone, that what she has done is not enough.”

I mean, bro, just one second earlier you were willing to “make real time for me,” and when you saw that I actually have thoughts about this, you no longer have that willingness or that time. That, my friend, is exactly the problem.

And he had the gall to say that if I didn’t vote for her it was going to get Trump re-elected. This is the position they are putting us in, and it is profoundly colonial. Profoundly.

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