How upset are you that Trump advanced his career by stiffing contractors?
How upset are you that Trump advanced his career by using Trump U to commit fraud?
How upset are you that Trump advanced his career by spreading fake stories in the press and tabloids?
etc.
Your post would be less political spin if it read: most Indians dont care if a white woman misuses her Native American ancestry to advanced her career.
I mean. Those things all annoy me, but they're a relatively small blip in the deluge of **** I have to:
1) Deal with in my day-to-day
2) Reckon with in this administration and government
3) Complain about/scrutinize regarding Trump the president and Trump the human being.
It's like people who vocalize about how Trump hired a quack doctor to forge his physical to say he's in peak shape. Ok. Cool. Meanwhile, the dude is putting people in camps, throwing kids in cages, threatening to withhold emergency relief funds for political reasons, and doing everything in his power to accelerate the destruction of the planet. I have bigger things to worry about, and if I wanted to gripe about Trump or his presidency, I have much more ready ammunition than his obvious and well-documented vanity.
I don't and have not spent much time around Native American people, and therefore I'm in no position to speak for, to, or even about what they think and how they feel with any kind of authority. But given what I know about the state of Native American communities today, and what I know about the US's treatment of Native American communities as a historical process, I would imagine it's much the same. Another white person wants to play Indian princess or whatever. Cool. Meanwhile, Native American communities had their right to vote stolen from them in this midterm, Trump opened his administration by executing instance #573829 of the US government tearing up a previously sovereign, legally binding treaty because they wanted something in the territory the treaty was supposed to protect, and Native American communities still experience some of the worst poverty and unemployment rates, and some of the greatest estrangement from access to government services in the country.
However, that doesn't make the critiques and rebukes which her action has brought about any less valid or warranted, as
here or
here, nor does it mean that white people aren't right to criticize it as superfluous or ultimately self-defeating, which it has since been proven to be. I think more to the point it was a worrying decision because it belies a lack of big-picture political thinking on Warren's part, more so than it reveals her to be some big secret Racist (or even a little one). Whatever that test revealed, it was obvious that Trump was going to ignore and deny, as he always does when someone tries to demonstrate his wrongness or racism, and it was also obvious that unless the test revealed a very high quantum people were going to interpret the results as evidence that Warren is a fraud and Trump was justified in his attacks. Revealing the results of that test, and in particular attempting to dominate the political consciousness to trumpet an absurd nothingburger of a result achieved nothing in demonstrating Trump to be a coward and a liar (which the majority of this country already knew anyway) and will be an albatross that will weigh her down at every turn over the next two years.