Herschel Walker’s Mom Rebuts His Claim His Grandma Was ‘Full-Blood Cherokee’

Team Herschel/Handout via ReutersIn January, at a campaign event at the University of Georgia, Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker boldly announced that he had just found out through his mother that he is “40 percent Native American.” In the following months, the former NFL star would repeat the claim several times, with slightly different twists, though each time he said he had just learned the news.HuffPost’s Jennifer Bendery reported that Walker said he had just learned his mom is “a big part Native American” at one campaign event in May, described himself as “other” and said he found out “a year and a half ago” at another May event, and at a south Georgia meet-and-greet the same month claimed he is “proud to be Black but… I may not be Black” because he had just learned “my mother is part Native American.” At a June 20 campaign event in College Park, he made similar claims but added that he made the discovery using a 23andMe ancestry test. “I don’t care what color you are,” Walker said after stating he wanted to “acknowledge all of my family.”Read more at The Daily Beast.