Months after she challenged President Donald Trump with a private DNA test intended to prove her claims of Native American heritage, Senator Liz Warren (D-Mass.) admitted that she is not a “person of color.”
The admission came as she was speaking at Morgan State, a historically black college in Baltimore, Maryland.
“As a country, we need to stop pretending that the same doors open for everyone, because they don’t,” she told the audience, as quoted in the Washington Post.
“I’m not a person of color,” she added. “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.”
The admission comes after months of criticism after she attempted to put to rest criticism about her heritage claims, only to inspire a much worse backlash. Among the most brutal of responses was a statement from the Cherokee Nation calling her test “worthless” and her claims damaging to Native Americans.- READ MORE