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https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/03/26/prominent-hollywood-native-american-turns-out-not-to-be-native-american-at-all-n1681652

“My mom was Indian and my dad’s a cowboy,” says Heather Rae, who has parlayed her Cherokee heritage into becoming what the New York Post called “Hollywood’s top Native American producer.” She is a member of the Indigenous Alliance of the Academy of Motion Pictures and has previously led the Sundance Institute’s Native American program. There’s just one catch: Heather Rae isn’t really Native American at all. Instead, she is just one more example of the recurring phenomenon today of white people attempting to escape the stigma of whiteness by posing as a “person of color.”

The Post reported Sunday that “a watchdog group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is now demanding the Academy and the producer drop her ‘false claims’ while activists insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee.” 1/2048! That’s even less than Elizabeth Warren, who is famously 1/1024 Native American. The Tribal Alliance Against Frauds accordingly accuses Rae of appropriating “real American Indian voices and perspectives” and even goes so far as to call her a “Pretendian.”

> https://pjmedia.com/culture/robert-spencer/2023/03/26/prominent-hollywood-native-american-turns-out-not-to-be-native-american-at-all-n1681652 > “My mom was Indian and my dad’s a cowboy,” says Heather Rae, who has parlayed her Cherokee heritage into becoming what the New York Post called “Hollywood’s top Native American producer.” She is a member of the Indigenous Alliance of the Academy of Motion Pictures and has previously led the Sundance Institute’s Native American program. There’s just one catch: Heather Rae isn’t really Native American at all. Instead, she is just one more example of the recurring phenomenon today of white people attempting to escape the stigma of whiteness by posing as a “person of color.” > The Post reported Sunday that “a watchdog group called the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is now demanding the Academy and the producer drop her ‘false claims’ while activists insist she’s at best 1/2048th Cherokee.” 1/2048! That’s even less than Elizabeth Warren, who is famously 1/1024 Native American. The Tribal Alliance Against Frauds accordingly accuses Rae of appropriating “real American Indian voices and perspectives” and even goes so far as to call her a “Pretendian.”

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"she is just one more example of the recurring phenomenon today of white people attempting to escape the stigma of whiteness by posing as a “person of color.”

Sorry, who's stigmatized by being white?, I'm not, quite the opposite. I'm proud of my heritage, I don't pander to blacks, pakis or anyone.

I am proud that all of my children are white, happy and making their way in this world despite all of the road blocks that are currently in the way.

I couldn't give a fuck what any other race thinks of the white race, I think it's fantastic, our accomplishments throughout history speak for themselves.