[eleni121]

The ever enlightening Sowell - a true national treasure.

This essay reminds me of a colleague who uses African American to get hired but take a moment and check out his pedigree: He was born in Morocco of Spaniard parents, raised in Mexico and now is a US citizen. He has claimed Latino, Caucasian, and African as his "background". Laughble yes but no less than the absurdities Sowell and others point out.

[Henrietta]

I follow the ever popular "one drop" rule: since Dad's great-grandma was half native american, I'm native american, too. No one has ever dared say anything when I put that down for "race." I encourage others to do the same. At the very least, it will start to skew the statistics with which they justify their racist affirmative action (fancy word for discriminatory) policies.