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Lots of Latinos getting a racial wake-up call!!!! And some white people are working themselves into a frenzy!!! Just focus on the case and stop agonizing.
It's actually "Latinos" who perpetuate the "Hispanic identity" thing, and the US government, the media, and the American people are too damn stupid to not understand that not all Latinos look like Mestizo Mexicans!! George Zimmerman, on the other hand... kinda does.
A lot of Latinos try to straddle the "we're an oppressed minority"... when "Latino" is barely an ethnic qualification, let alone a race.
My great grandmother was 1/2 Cherokee so how does this go? Grandfather 1/4 Cherokee and his skin was white as chalk. My dad would be 1/8 Cherokee and he tanned Red. Does this make me 1/16 Cherokee because if I can prove that, I would be allowed to get profit from the casino's in Western North Carolina. I think that day has passed though and I really have no interest in doing that. I understand the records are there in Ashe County, North Carolina and a lot of my relatives are gaining the profits. I was a teenager the first time I visited the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina. It did not take me long to realize that I look more like the Cherokee's than some shop owners on the reservation.
Do the Cheek and Cherokee tribes like each other? Are we friends? I appreciate the information. I found out the 1/4 rule, I think, when I went looking for whether I should be considered white or Cherokee. I believe the 1/4 was from the U. S. Census rule. My grandfather was considered white, although by the census rules he should have been American Indian. Most records from that time are from family Bible entries.
I consider myself an all-American lady. Put my American Indian with the English Royal family, Scotch-Irish, German and what could I be except all-American. Well, possibly black with the one drop law. I am still searching for my grandfather's dad and have found several people with his name and some of them were mulatto. I may have to do the DNA test to find out which one he is; the mulatto dentist in Greensboro or the white man in the Tennessee prison? I love genealogy and have discovered so much by researching.
This is why I get a kick out of those on here that call me racist. Well, I do find Italians a little strange. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a racist. I am just realistic in the way I think. My opinion is that black people (or anyone else that does it) need to stop celebrating their skin color or race and join the rest of the American people as I have. All American citizens are just Americans (that is the state department term for everyone that is a citizen) and need to stop these immature divisions. Just know that if you are here, it is because this is where God wants you to be and stop blaming the people of the past for bringing your ancestors here and thank God that they did. I watched the program "Who do you think you are" and one black man went back to the "old" country and found that the people there where his family started out were still selling children into slavery. He didn't say it, but from his expression, I gathered he felt grateful that he lives right now where he lives. I love this country with all its faults.
But anyone that was born in America is not an immigrant. If you were born in the United States of America that makes you a native, not an immigrant. And since we have more people born here than immigrants, we are NOT a nation of immigrants. End of discussion!
Not when it comes to jumping into the affirmative action lines or insisting that we cannot have any immigration laws when it comes to the floods of people coming from their countries. Then they say it's racist against the hispanic race to expect them to abide by immigration laws.
You don't have much of a sense of humor, do you? It's my friend's idea of a joke. Her identity is "African-American". Her race is irrelevant to this discussion. I'm 100% positive she would not enter African-American as her race, anyway.
If 50% white and 50% hispanic equals a white person, then why does obamas 50% white and 50% black does not equal being a white as well?
seems kind of racist to me sticking someone into a race that they might or might not identify with.
Don't you remember the black bigots with their endless caterwauling that Obama was not not "black enough," not "down for the struggle," because he was only half black, or had no "slave blood"??
Don't you remember the black bigots with their endless caterwauling that Obama was not not "black enough," not "down for the struggle," because he was only half black, or had no "slave blood"??
You're presenting Monkeywrenching as if he were one of those black bigots you speak of.
Then I guess the MSM is full of extremists and fanatics, because they are obsessed with race, especially if it makes for high ratings.
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