© AP"So as weird as it is to say, in his own racially offensive way, Donald Trump was being woke. Yeah, and that's unfortunately the truth," Noah said.
The controversy over the Massachusetts Democratic's heritage was resurrected this week after Trump brought back his "Pocahontas" nickname for her during a White House ceremony honoring Navajo code talkers. Warren slammed Trump for his comments, calling him "truly disgusting" and saying he'd used a "racial slur."
Warren for years claimed to be part Native American and was touted as a minority faculty member by Harvard University, yet the New England Genealogical Society said it had found no Native American lineage in her background. The issue became a topic of mirth during her campaign for the Senate in 2012, though Noah pointed out it's something she has "never apologized for or owned up to."
Noah brought up Warren's contributions to a recipe book called "Pow Wow Chow."
"That would be like finding out I'm completely white, I have no African blood, and yet I wrote the book 'Snacks For Blacks,'" he said.
Noah said that while Trump is "racially offensive" himself, he was actually right in calling Warren out.
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and while I'm at it: [Link] That last bit points out how whitewashed our history really is... and Disney isn't the first, as most of our 'leaders' have been given this treatment, as genocide wasn't even a word used back then like it is now, but it was the normal imperial policy in conqeuring territories 'off the map' here in the Americas or Africa... something harder to do in regions more developed and accessible to other competitors.