@Bruce You wrote: <blockquote>The sticking point for these letter writers seems to be that she has not explicitly said that her family stories were false. I can understand not wanting to outright state that one’s dead mother was a liar.
While that sticking point is enough of a reason for the letter writers to not forgive Warren, is their individual dissatisfaction reason enough to make this a national story? And for those stories to not mention the many Native American individual and groups that have begun to forgive her and think that she is doing the work to make up for her errors?</blockquote> Yes, it’s a reason for this to be a national story because she’s running for the highest office in this country, and right now we have a president in office who is absolutely a racist. Those of us on the left have spent the last six years criticizing the president and his supporters over this kind of thing, and we owe it to ourselves and our country to not give one of our own a pass simply because she’s a woman and not Trump and because she’s offered an apology while at the same time refusing to deal with the very thing that was the problem in the first place. YOu further wrote: <blockquote>Would 200 African Americans writing another letter to Biden about his friendship with segregationist Senators receive the same coverage?</blockquote> At this point, it likely would, and it definitely would in African-American owned press outlets. See, for example, the coverage Pete B. received over his plans to address African-American issues. If it didn’t receive this same amount of coverage, then we’d have something to agree on. But the event we’re talking about is a hypothetical that hasn’t happened. You finally wrote: <blockquote>And I don’t think asking that question is wrong, it’s completely possible for both Warren causing a lot of harm and the news media being sexist to be true. It feels off to allow the former to completely overshadow the latter.</blockquote> Holding Warren accountable for failing to address the actual problem when she’s been asked to do so for years and she’s running for the highest office in the country isn’t sexist, it’s the media’s job, and it’s our job. She doesn’t get a pass just because she’s a woman, and we shouldn’t be giving her one just because we’d rather focus on the things we like about her, (she’s incredibly smart, has paid a lot of attention to detail when it comes to planning, and is ten times better and more qualified than Trump in any category), and we’d rather look away from the things that are problematic.