Posted on 03/10/2009 7:55:05 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
IOW, King Juan Carlos is definitely not an "Hispanic," for Federal entitlement purposes, neither posasibly, are the stars of telenovelas. Penelope Cruz might or might not be, depending on the state of her suntan.
Now take Geraldo Rivera (please.} He is the offspring of a Jewish woman, married to a Puerto Rican fellow, somewhere in the Jose Ferrer range of pigmentation. However, he is a Democrat, and has self-identified as an Hispanic and also as a "person of color." He worked the racket well enough to get his breakthrough job on NY TV.
However, if he were living in New Mexico, it might nave been a different story. In re the Obamba Largesse: it is a tint-based program. He didn't invent all this, but he will extend it as a ssystem of more and more government control.
Keep up that tan, Gonzalez, and dye that hair!
No most Latinos are not white, Mexicans are closer to (indians)
Asians are for most purposes of preference not considered minorities because they overwhelmingly strive and succeed. Minorities, it seems, must be drags on society and reliable, benighted, lockstep Democratic voters.
How is that distinguishable from Hispanic. And since when does being just half Latino disqualify you from receiving affirmative action, minority business set asides, etc. That is not the way our EEO laws are written.
The Census Bureau has created the phony category of non-Hispanic whites so that the USG can provide minority rights and benefits to whites [Hispanic].
Success in school is probably more dependent upon your family situation than it is the quality of the teachers or the schools. If you are born in a poor family to a single parent you are more likely to drop out of school.
Define Latinos or Hispanics.
White Hispanic and Latino Americans
In the 2007 American Community Survey 24.4 million, or 51.9% of the then 45,427,437 total Hispanic and Latino Americans self-identified as white, an increase from 47.9% in the 2000 census."
The Dems create these categories to set up another group of victims, to whom they can give special rights and priveleges. It also creates a herd mentality so people identify with a group rather than their individual intersts.
Most universities no longer consider Asians minorities for preferential enrollment consideration. If they did, there would, most probably, be little room for anyone else.
I am talking about the USG. And many universities include Asians under minority enrollment when reporting data. Do you know who is considered an Asian? What countries?
let’s hope he does for the nea what he has done for the economy...
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He betrayed no one.
The standard for “excellence” will be lower than a whale’s turd on the ocean floor.
Bonuses for everyone!
He will REWARD the radical LEFTISTS for their “hard work”.
Under the bus, in this case, an orangish yellow and black bus...
PING
All teachers are meritorious.
Right, I'm against merit pay because who will be in charge of deciding who gets it? Who will get the "best" kids stacked in their classes? Who will get the worst?
It smells of favoritism and one cannot come up with an objective way to judge or an objective judge.
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