Ms. Barnes, who said her research into Ms. Warren\u2019s family found \u201cno evidence\u201d of Native American ancestry, has challenged key elements of the senator\u2019s tale of how her parents, Pauline Reed and Donald Herring, defied his parents by running off to marry.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem with Warren\u2019s story is that none of the evidence supports it,\u201d said Ms. Barnes in a 2016 post on her Thoughts from Polly\u2019s Granddaughter blog. \u201cHer genealogy shows no indication of Cherokee ancestry. Her parents\u2019 wedding doesn\u2019t resemble an elopement. And additional evidence doesn\u2019t show any indication of her Herring grandparents being Indian haters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, that surprises no one, mostly because Massachusetts Senators have a history of being strangers to the truth.<\/p>\n
While Ms. Warren may genuinely believe the story of her star-crossed parents, Ms. Barnes has argued that the documentation doesn\u2019t back it up.<\/p>\n
She cited the friendship between Grant Herring, Ms. Warren\u2019s paternal grandfather, and Carnall Wheeler, who was listed on the Cherokee Nation roll and mocked in his Virginia Military Institute yearbook as an \u201caboriginal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Documents show that the two played golf together and that Mr. Wheeler attended a 25th anniversary party for the Herrings in 1936.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly, Wheeler experienced some degree of racism in his life due to his being Indian,\u201d said Ms. Barnes. \u201cDespite this, there is one person we know who did not have a problem associating with him \u2014 Grant Herring, the grandfather of Elizabeth Warren, the same grandfather she claims was racist against Indians.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Of course, in this day and age, folks can be whoever they want to be, just by declaring it’s so despite any documentation. That’s why our Stolen Valor page is chocked full of phonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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