Originally posted October 13 2021:
Spicer has spent too much time bumping elbows with Liz Warren. On Monday, at the Indigenous Peoples Day celebration at the McCarthy School, she made a wild new claim. She proclaimed, “my father shared with me that we have Native ancestry in the Cherokee Nation. “
VIDEO SOURCE: Petroni Media, The Framingham Source
She went on to say, “I look at the strength of the Cherokee people and the strength of Africans which is the other part of my heritage… and how do we keep using those skills and that experience to keep doing our best work and being our best self.“
This is a brand new and never before stated revelation for Spicer. In the past she has made all sorts of claims, some of them true. She’s claimed a upbringing in poverty, in New York City, that she’s African American, that she is a doctor, that she is an educator, that she is for the city form of government, that she is a great negotiator, and that she puts Framingham first. As I said, only some of them are actually true.
We are not here to attack her race or ethnicity, however with a woman who has made bold claims since day one in office, most often she clenches on to the fame of being the ‘first popularly elected female African American mayor in Massachusetts’. It is concerning that way back then, she didn’t highlight those native roots to be the ‘first popularly elected female African American and Native American mayor in Massachusetts’.
In her speech Spicer claimed her dad told her about her Cherokee heritage, unfortunately, her father died when Spicer was 10. The fact that this has never come out before from the woman who plays victim regularly, is a shocker. When male city councilors come at her hard, she calls them sexist. When people just don’t like her, she plays the race card. The fact that this Indian ethnic heritage has not come out before – leaves us scratching our heads.
Perhaps the father part was a white lie to make the story more plausible, and really it was a ’23 and me’ ancestry test that told her that she had some native blood in her. Or maybe it was all bullshit.
Perhaps she read the Liz Warren playbook, and skipped those final pages under the title epilogue. You see Liz Warren’s Native American heritage first appeared on a Texas Bar registry self-identifying question. And it kept appearing on job applications for higher education and governmental roles.
After more than two decades of claiming that she was a tribal member of the Cherokee Nation, she found herself apologizing to the Cherokee Nation Chief for asserting that claim. You see, being a Cherokee Nation tribal citizen is rooted in centuries of culture and laws not through DNA tests. At the end of the day, Liz Warren is a white woman who per an ancestry test showed that 6-10 generations back. This means that someone in her family had Cherokee roots who was somewhere between Liz Warren’s great-great-great-great-grandparent, and her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparent.
After her apology to the chief, she went on an apology tour apologizing to places she asserted her Native American Heritage, where she self identified as a minority. University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, the Association of American Law Schools directory, among others.
The claim by Spicer, mentioning her being part of the Cherokee Nation may be just too much. Even if she holds ethnicity, claiming to be a part of the Nation, may be a step too far. We will see how this plays out. In the mean time, we will be pulling the EOE statements from every public employer for which she has ever worked.