UC Native Americans demand action against scholars claiming Indigenous roots without proof
The left's identity politics is a grift. Pure and simple. The grievances are used to gain money and power. It's practitioners are frauds at every level exposed by their laughable linguistic games. If you abbreviate and hyphenate your "identity" you aren't anything because you are no longer an individual, patriot or citizen. Can you have only rights and no responsibilities? That is progressive.
My failure to obsess over the rewritten past or focus on your race or mythical infinite genders makes me the racist ? If I laugh at cake or ghost as a gender I am ist or an obic ? No, you have a mental disorder.
Now back to the LATimes
Critics say the “Pretendians” take positions from Native Americans, betray their students and potentially commit research fraud.UC has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the issue. For
years, Maylei Blackwell has worked to lift up Indigenous and Chicana
women’s voices as a UCLA professor who identified as a mixed-race person
of Thai and Cherokee heritage. Her research was widely cited, her use
of oral histories praised. Her most recent book was poised to receive a
prestigious award last year from a Native American and Indigenous
studies association.
Then came a bombshell revelation.
The
scholars association abruptly rescinded the award after allegations
surfaced last spring that Blackwell’s claims of Cherokee heritage, based
on family stories, were phony. In a public apology, Blackwell confessed
that her research triggered by the allegations found her mother was
white. She vowed to seek repair for harms caused. The furor reverberated
nationally after Charlene Villaseñor Black, chair of Blackwell’s
Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, posted a public
message of gratitude to the Indigenous scholars who brought the issue to
light.
Now
the University of California, following several cases of questioned
Native American identity over the last few years, has launched a
“fact-finding mission” on the issue, according to UC Academic Senate
Chair Steven W. Cheung. UC provided no details on the scope of the
effort. But the action comes after UC Native American scholars held
their first symposium last year on what they say is a growing problem of
what are called “Pretendians” — pretend Indians — in the UC system and
across academia nationwide.
“We
just decided that people need to start talking about this in the system
or it’s going to keep happening,” said Phenocia Bauerle, UC Berkeley
director of Native American Student Development, who has helped lead
efforts for action. “There are so many people pretending to be Native,
so I do think people who are claiming it, who are building their careers
on it, should have to prove it.”
Leftism is based entirely on academic fraud. The left will always say they can get communism/socialism right the next time. The lies will never stop because someone will always eagerly play the victim. Huge rewards with so little effort.
