Politico has been covering the Rachel Dolezal story as have many other news sources as you can see here, here, and here. Who can blame them? It is a fascinating story about a white person casting herself (soon to be himself?) as a member of another group. However, it turns out that Politico may be able to get the inside scoop on what it is like to fake ethnicity from one of their own. None other than their hilariously infamous lethargic labor reporter, Mike Elk, according to his own declaration, pretended to be an American Indian on his college financial aid application in order to get a better deal.
According to his March 2012 tweet, Elk declared that he marked the "Native American box" for college aid. His justification was "everyone lies like Daisy its human." It's (correct grammar) also wrong but, hey, Elk doesn't seem to care since it is Marxist credo that the ends justifies the means.
I marked the Native American box on my financial aid box cuz I couldn't afford college - everyone lies like Daisey its human
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) March 20, 2012
The good news for Politico is that they can find out what it is like to fake ethnicity for ulterior purposes from the personal experiences of one of their own writers. The bad news is that the writer is so lethargic that he has only written a grand total of five stories since coming aboard Politico last October. Elk's last article was on January 30 so it is now almost six months since he was at all productive. Would it be too much to expect Elk, whose most famous quote at the advanced age of 28 was "I can’t work the kind of hours I did when I was 24," to lift a finger and inform the public how he spent his college years as a fake American Indian?
Exit question: Did Mike Elk mark himself down as a member of the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren or Chuck (Geronimo) Connors?
