[Windcatcher]

It's because we would wonder why someone would say we weren't white when it's patently obvious we are. Such a statement (that Greeks aren't white) would prima facie be a LIE. Does someone think we undeserving of the connotation? Are we untermenschen? Or is it an effort to dilute any political leverage we Greeks might wield? If I take the premise that a person making such a statement were LYING or otherwise acting in an underhanded manner, any of the above reasons (or any others to which I might arrive) would and should make me angry. We would be fully justified in opposing such a statement.

[cyborg]

Or they're just trying to make Greeks angry by comparing them to black people who were historically the lowest of the low. You know the terrible things ethnic white people were called. I can recall a few wop,dago,greaseball,etc. all because we were compared to blacks early on. Political leverage I don't know about. Could be. When the Census 2000 allowed people to designate more than one race on the forum, La Raza and NAACP were screaming bloody murder.

BTW I am going to pray for that family. The news keeps saying resentment. Over what?