Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test

Okay, so Elizabeth Warren's family lore included a non-specific Native American ancestor, Cherokee, if I remember correctly. If I had a nickel for every white person who claimed, without evidence or specifics that they were "part Cherokee", well, I'd have a lot of nickels! (And it always seems to be Cherokee for some reason). But what harm did it do? It was apparently a story that her mother & grandmother told...it was harmless. Warren never used her tenuously claimed minority status to gain any advantage, and she never claimed to be an official, enrolled member of any tribe of nation. Probably the only thing that can be laid at her feet was when, after being hired at Harvard, she listed herself as a minority in the faculty guide and allowed the Harvard administration to use her as an example of diversity within the faculty. It was something that wouldn't have drawn notice from anyone if her election opponent hadn't made it a ploy to undermine her. (He lost, she won).

However I believe that Warren erred in getting down in the muck with Donnie Two-Scoops. Her DNA test, even if it is legitimate, (which I am skeptical of) indicates that her Native ancestor is 6-10 generations back. The tiny percentage of her ancestry that this test claims as Native American apparently is less than the percentage that the average American white person can claim as Native ancestry. So what did she accomplish? She jumped through a hoop for a president who will undoubtedly use this information to further mock her. In fact, today, Trump babbled about his million dollar pledge to charity if she took the DNA test was only if she was a presidential nominee and in a decidedly creepy moment, said that he would administer the test himself (whatever that means), adding with a smirk that he "would not enjoy it". If you're going to try to appease this, as Rex Tillerson called him, fucking moron, you'll just dig yourself in deeper.