Charlie Hurt: If Requirement Is To Be 1/1000 Native American, Maybe I Could Have Gone to Harvard

‘I think what this really reveals is just how absurd all of this identity politics is’

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MACCALLUM: “So, Charlie, let me start with when you take a look at this, you know, she does — I mean, you heard the man. The ancestry specialist. There is some native American blood in her ancestry.”

HURT: “Yes, she might be 11,000th American Indian, which puts her pretty much on par with the average American. If not a little bit less. It certainly — if that’s the requirement, then I should’ve claimed to be in native American. I don’t know, maybe I could’ve gone to Harvard. But it’s — you know, I think what this really reveals is just how absurd all of this identity politics is —”

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