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View Poll Results: Should race stay on a drivers license?
YES race should stay on a drivers license 22 48.89%
NO race should no longer be mentioned 23 51.11%
Voters: 45. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-16-2016, 05:15 AM
 
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Please choose:

Race should be mentioned on a drivers license or

Race should Not be mentioned.

Many kids have 2 parents of mixed race. How do some have to choose which group they belong to because a label nerds to be put on them.
Isn't it time to leave race of a drivers license?
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Old 06-16-2016, 05:26 AM
 
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Is this a common practice in the USA ?


It certainly is NOT done here in Canada. As a matter of fact, it is illegal to ask what race a person considers themselves to be, except on the national census report. Employers cannot ask that, neither can schools or Universities. and most certainly not on a Provincial drivers license.


In other words, in this country, a person's race is not important, at all.


Jim B.
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Old 06-16-2016, 05:27 AM
 
Location: Florida
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No race listed on drivers licenses in my state. Just eye color and height
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Old 06-16-2016, 05:32 AM
 
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Same here in Texas. No mention of race at all. Of course, there is a photo of me.


Now, on my license it shows that I am "Class C", meaning I may drive vehicles weighing under a certain weight and with a certain number of passengers. Did the OP believe that the "C" stood for Caucasian?
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Old 06-16-2016, 05:37 AM
 
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On my license, race is not mentioned. I'm of mixed heritage and so many times I mark "other."
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Old 06-16-2016, 05:40 AM
 
Location: Posting from my space yacht.
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Is this a common practice in the USA ?


It certainly is NOT done here in Canada. As a matter of fact, it is illegal to ask what race a person considers themselves to be, except on the national census report. Employers cannot ask that, neither can schools or Universities. and most certainly not on a Provincial drivers license.


In other words, in this country, a person's race is not important, at all.


Jim B.


I could care less either way about this issue but you sir are getting tiresome. All you seem to do on this forum is go around posting about how much better Canada is at everything, how superior Canada's way of doing things is compared to America's, how rude and obnoxious American people are. If you were as cocksure confident about Canada's superiority as you incessantly try to convince us you are you would have no reason to come on to a mostly American bulletin board and bleat about it all the time.
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Old 06-16-2016, 05:45 AM
 
Location: Asia
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In other words, in [Canada], a person's race is not important, at all.

Unless you're a first nation Canuck. Then you got shafted and abused and discriminated against and cheated, based on your race.
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Old 06-16-2016, 05:52 AM
 
Location: Native of Any Beach/FL
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not sure all DLs have a picture, remember not all did - but for LEOS helps a lot to see who is what comparing on a database whop they chasing- imagine----you have a description on a radio and copper is chasing rapist?
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Old 06-16-2016, 08:50 AM
 
Location: Elysium
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Is this a common practice in the USA ?


Jim B.
I have never heard of it on state ID cards . It was on birth certificates.
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Old 06-16-2016, 09:02 AM
 
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Is this a common practice in the USA ?


It certainly is NOT done here in Canada. As a matter of fact, it is illegal to ask what race a person considers themselves to be, except on the national census report. Employers cannot ask that, neither can schools or Universities. and most certainly not on a Provincial drivers license.


In other words, in this country, a person's race is not important, at all.


Jim B.
For identification purposes, it is critical. This isn't a difficult issue, folks.
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