Sheriff Cabral says she's Native American and challenges Scott Brown

[TroyD]

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Andrea J. Cabral is the Sheriff of Suffolk County.

My maternal grandmother, who died when I was very young, was a beautiful full Cherokee Native American. As far as my family knows, she is not listed in any official registry as such. As a child, she was adopted, raised and educated by a white family. That makes me one-quarter Native American.

I am also black American and Cape Verdean American. Because of her contribution to my heritage, I personify the histories and experiences of those who are native to this country, those who were enslaved and forced to come here and those who came here seeking a better life.

Like so many, I am shaped by the impact my grandmother’s race had on her adopted family and the black American family into which she married.

I don’t look Cherokee. But I am just as proud of that as I am of every other part of my race and ethnicity. I’ve == “checked the box” on census forms, school applications and other questionnaires precisely as a point of pride that could, in my lifetime, if not my grandmother’s, be freely expressed.

Care to debate that, Senator?

http://www.baystatebanner.com/local14-2012-10-04

[madokie]

1. I'm part Cherokee and proud of it

Can't tell it by looking but I am. My great grandmother didn't trust the government so when they were enrolling the Native Americans in the Dawes roll she refused. None of us, 13 in all, 8 still living, have a card showing that we're part Cherokee because of that. Matters not to whether or not we're part Native American though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Rolls

[TroyD]

2. Between Sheriff Cabral & Deval Patrick

Scott Brown is going to pay for engaging in the racial baiting.

Multiple people are taking him on now.