There is no common sense in government-if there were it would be 1/10 the size that it is. My family came from Spain to the new world-I’m Caucasian in appearance, and by descent, mostly Hispanic/Spanish, but who knows what else after 400-500 years in the new world-only the last 250 are well documented-and not perfectly, at that. Anything earlier is just bits of paper and oral history-I’m guessing the history of any old family is similar, no matter race or descent-so why allow government or anyone else to use it to divide people?
My dad and husband were career military, I grew up color blind and I remain so.
Those forms are just used to fill racial quotas, and are in themselves racist and divisive-like I said below-make it two boxes-”Human” and “Other”...
Those forms are just used to fill racial quotas, and are in themselves racist and divisive-like I said below-make it two boxes-”Human” and “Other”...
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Quotas were the big thing for HR depts. in the ‘80s-’90s. I had a co-worker friend who told me that he checked the box “Native American” on his application form. He was just a regular Caucasian like me, but met a quota and was given preference under Aff. Action.
That’s where all this PC language is misleading. All of us born in the US are Native Americans, but it doesn’t mean we are American Indians.