Elizabeth Warren Backtracks: ‘I’m Not a Person of Color’
Sen. Elizabeth Warren — who for decades has described herself as a Native American — now says she’s not a “person of color.”
The comments come after the Massachusetts senator and likely 2020 presidential candidates tries to clean up what many viewed as an embarrassing misstep, after she publicly released a DNA test showing she had no significant Native American heritage, but claimed it proved otherwise.
"I'm not a person of color,” Warren said Friday during a speech at Morgan State University, a historically black school in Baltimore. “And I haven’t lived your life or experienced anything like the subtle prejudice, or more overt harm, that you may have experienced just because of the color of your skin. But rules matter. And our government, not just individuals within the government but the government itself, has systematically discriminated against black people in this country."
In the past, Warren said her parents had to elope because her father’s family was prejudiced against her mother’s Native American ancestry. When she worked as a professor, Harvard University described her as among their minority law professors. Warren even contributed a family recipe — “Pow Wow Chow” — to Native American cookbook.
