Washington (CNN) Sen. Elizabeth Warren addressed her own race to a graduating class of students at a historically black university on Friday.

"I'm not a person of color. And I haven't lived your life or experienced anything like the subtle prejudice, or more overt harm, that you may have experienced just because of the color of your skin," the Massachusetts Democrat and potential 2020 contender said, according to her prepared remarks.

It's not clear if the comment was a rebuttal to last week's reported backlash within Democratic circles to Warren's decision to release a DNA test several months ago.

Warren's comment -- which prompted an immediate response from the RNC that she "fails to put this whole sordid saga behind her" -- was hardly the reason Warren was speaking to the students at Morgan State University.

Still, it's a sign her Republican detractors will not let go of the issue despite Warren's best efforts to neutralize it.

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