That's HILARIOUS. It reminds me of something the comedian Paul Rodriquez said in a stand-up act: "There are Hispanics as white as Cameron Diaz and as black as Sammy Sosa! That proves to me that Hispanics will sleep with anybody and everybody!"
Posted on 06/14/2005 7:55:43 AM PDT by Millee
When the University of Colorado asked Ward Churchill to prove his Native-American ethnic identity, it raised the question of what makes a person one race or another.
After all, who is the "we" determining for others who they are? Can someone be Native-American and not be on any tribal roster? Can't individuals be of multiple groups?
In Churchill's case, a group of non-Native professors will decide if he is of a particular ethnic group. Will they begin their process with a self-evaluation of whichever criteria they devise? Should they be asked to first prove their whiteness? Can they?
Can someone decide for you what your ethnic background is and have it listed in a government-approved roster?
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I've decided to be Warren Buffett.
Think they'll accept the $40,000,000,000 check at the bank?
From the article:
"In "The Lost Land," John C. Chavez estimated that 80 percent of Mexican people have Native-American blood. Since the majority of the Latino people in the United States come from Mexico, this suggests that 80 percent of those 40 million Latinos could be Native-Americans and are not on any tribal rolls."
Good grief...yet another convoluted reason to leave our borders wide open and pay for another country's citizens!
Yes! AM, for your troll image arsenal.
How can this possibly be of any importance?
I think racial categories are absurd. Should we go back to the old southern words, quadroon, octaroon, mulatto. Does the "one drop" rule still hold. People have been cross breeding in America for 400 years. Lets just drop the whole thing and move on with something useful.
I've just started reading a book that says Sicily is QUITE the melting pot, given its location and history. Even German ancestry there.
If that's the case, and the U.S. is continuing to meld, can we assume that Americans will all look Sicilian in 100 years?
Not in any meaningful sense. They are government granted little semi-sovereignity enclaves. It's a conceit, like most based on facts but wildly overstated by it's advocates. Do they mint money? Do they have an Army. Can they make their own laws (esp. those that contradict US laws). Are they recognized by other states?
who have affiliated themselves by formal, enforceable legal documents to the US Federal Government. They are individual sovereigns in union with Washington DC, like the States are.
And as we've just seen the sovereignity discussions re: medical marijuana the States are pretty much weakened shells of their former selves.
The prisons are full of natural born con men like Churchill. He just found easier and spineless marks in the academic community. Nonetheless, this academic charlatan must be terminated as a start in fixing a higher education system nearly destroyed in the 1960s by worthless baby boomers.
This article is stupid. The issue here is not what race Churchill is. That is difficult to judge. It is not, however, difficult to figure out if he is at all native american. And, the only reason why this is an issue is not that anyone cares, but that he used it is a criteria for why he should get a specifcic job.
That's HILARIOUS. It reminds me of something the comedian Paul Rodriquez said in a stand-up act: "There are Hispanics as white as Cameron Diaz and as black as Sammy Sosa! That proves to me that Hispanics will sleep with anybody and everybody!"
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