The idea of a “pretendian” is that non-white folks are so oppressed in this country that some people present themselves as another race—in this case, American Indian—so as to benefit from that oppression.
If this makes no sense at all, welcome to the idiocy of identity politics in the 21st Century.
Why is this relevant, though? Because an Academy Award-winning musician was just outted as having faked her native ancestry.
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