But, Chileans, Argentines, and Spaniards will find themselves automatically on the outs. Penelope Cruz, Xavier Bardem, even with a great tan? Fuggedaboutit. Oddly enough, white Cubans and Puerto Ricans are OK with the bureaucraps. Mexicans, Central Americans? No Problem. White Colombians, Venezuelans? possible problem. Bolivia? No Problem. Ecuador? No Problem. Peru? Could be a problem.
Go figure. And do bring the grocery bag.
Notice the category of non-Hispanic whites. Skin color is really irrelevant when it comes to deciding who gets the federal goodies. This has less to do about race as it does about creating another category of victims.
We have created something similar with "Asians." Here is the the Virginia Department of Minority Business definition:
“Asian American” means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands, including but not limited to Japan, China, Vietnam, Samoa, Laos, Cambodia, Taiwan, Northern Mariana, the Philippines, a U.S. territory of the Pacific, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.
The definitions of Hispanic and Asian under Virginia law are ludicrous. They make no sense. What do Japanese, Chinese, Indians, and Filipinos have in common except being from the same geographic region of the globe? Similarly, “Hispanics” encompass all of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, i.e., the former colonialists. These types of classifications are reminiscent of those under apartheid in South Africa, which had four main groups with a number of sub-groups and even “honorary whites.” Republicans should take the lead in abolishing these discriminatory programs in post-racial America and use immigration as an example of the unfairness of these laws.
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