“As a country, we need to stop pretending that the same doors open for everyone, because they don’t,” Warren said in a commencement address at Morgan State University, a historically black institution. The test angered some minority leaders who found it offensive that she would use genetics to prove ethnicity. Warren released the test in response to critics, including President Trump, who claimed the family lore about her ancestry was false. During the financial crisis of 2008, she said, “millions of people — black, white, Latino, Asian — lost their homes. Morgan State University President David Wilson said he had extended invitations to several officials to speak at Friday’s commencement.

Source: Washington Post December 14, 2018 15:45 UTC