Just Who In The Hell Do You Think You Are?

A lie that you believe is as powerful as the truth. Even though it’s a lie, if you believe it and you allow it to shape your thinking and your understanding, then it becomes as powerful, binding, constricting—or—freeing as an absolute truth. This happens all the time, with people we know, motives we misunderstand.

One woman in the news recently was the head of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington claiming to be African American. She was found out to be 100% white. Why she chooses to identify as an African American is beyond me.

Here and there you see/hear/read of folks who are usually classified as African Americans claiming to be white. The phenomena seems to work both ways with African American and whites.

Senator Elizabeth Warren claimed her grandmother told her she was part Native American and it turned out to be false when her political opposition checked up on her ancestors, Waalaaa, not an Indian to be found.

I pity the Cherokee Indians, they are mostly gone from the face of the earth, yet we have folks who are 1/64 Cherokee claiming to be Indians. These folks are 63 parts out of 64 something else other than Native American. The old Cherokees are rolling in their graves, the descendants of their enemies are now walking around wearing the mantel of a people long gone. This is called cultural appropriation. Check that out by clicking here.

Native Americans all over the place have to deal with this. The number of wanna be Indians probably outnumber the real ones by a factor of ten (10). Native American folk have a lot of jokes about the Wannabe Tribal members.

We New Mexican Hispanos/Hispanics/Mexicans/Chicanos/Indo Hispanos etc., have our share of wanna be's out there. Some are wannabe whites, others wannabe Indians others wanabe Jews. I have not heard of a  wannabe African American. And to be sure the ones claiming to be white or Indians, in part or in whole may have a verifiable claim, the ones claiming to be Jews is another matter all together.

The folks claiming to he Sephardic Jews are wayyyyy of base. This is also cultural appropriation. They may in all reality have some of this in their background but there is zero proof, I mean ZERO proof of any in New Mexico. Does that stop all the wanna be Jews? Not in the least, the list even seems to be growing. This was all started by a guy named Stanley Hordes. Click on his name to read all about ole Stanley and the New Mexican Sephardic Jews. They seem to forget that if they want to be Jews they can. No one is stopping them. It is a religion, so go ahead and switch.

But people wanting to be something they are not is a long list, a very long list. But they usually can't prove it. Their claims are full of snippets like maybe, we think, they said, I have heard, I read etc., etc. They usually can't prove it and their claims cannot be substantiated.