Surely you realize that it wasn’t President Trump who began calling Senator Warren “Pocahontas”. It was actually Rush Limbaugh who first gave the senator the nickname.

Not so much. She was given the nickname by the Boston media (likely Howie Carr) in her first run for Senate against Scott Brown. It was Scott Brown who first brought the issue to our attention.

She wasn’t lying: she believe the anti-racist act of her parents who eloped against the racism of her grandfather: a man who believed her mother to be part Cherokee. Doesn’t matter if she was or not, it was the racism of the grandfather that spurred all this into action. Elizabeth Herring (at the time) chose to believe in the anti-racism, embracing a possible Cherokee heritage, than in the racism that rejected it.

It’s actually a mobius strip of racism: folding in on itself over and over again — ‘Pocahontas’ is an Algonquin name, native to neither Massachusetts (another native name) where she is Senator nor to Oklahoma (again with the native names!) where she was born. Yet another white-guy iteration of ‘they all look the same to me.’