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Old 07-08-2020, 03:06 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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I have this idea, should be easy to fix, just a little wording on some laws and paperwork. Instead of asking folks to identify as a certain race or color when filling out paperwork, applying for government assistance, applying for loans, etc. Let's make an easy change where instead of asking what race someone is, ask them this:

Do you identify as an American or non-American?

Too many people are making this about race, so let's just eliminate race in the eyes of the government, end all rights, protections, laws, language, anything that ever was done to help a race or a people, just eliminate all speak about race.

Problem solved. You're either an American or you're not.
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:10 PM
 
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this doesnt solve anything they will just lie
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Missouri
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You put too much faith in paperwork.
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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You put too much faith in paperwork.
No, I'm saying eliminate the paperwork. No affirmative action, no free loans for minorities, no civil rights for anyone, eliminate race from law, separation of race and state as it were.

You're either an American or you're not.
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:14 PM
 
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I like the idea but if you did that Asians and Whites would pull further ahead of everyone else.
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Southern Willamette Valley, Oregon
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You're either an American or you're not.

Define "American". To a liberal, the illegal alien that just hopped over the border fence is an "American". And that illegal is surely going to say "I identify as an American" after being asked in Spanish how he identifies.
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:16 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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I like the idea but if you did that Asians and Whites would pull further ahead of everyone else.
Not if they weren't looked at as Asians and Whites anymore, just Americans. You couldn't blame them for being white or Asian anymore.
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:18 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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Define "American". To a liberal, the illegal alien that just hopped over the border fence is an "American". And that illegal is surely going to say "I identify as an American" after asked in Spanish.
Ok great, then let them in, just don't call them Hispanics or Latinos. They are Americans, they pay taxes like the rest of us from now on. Of course, they still need to show proof, like all Americans, but that's as far as it goes to categorize them.
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:19 PM
 
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Not if they weren't looked at as Asians and Whites anymore, just Americans. You couldn't blame them for being white or Asian anymore.
Yeah but everyone would still know who is Asian and White and that they are doing so much better than the rest, and Whites would still be blamed for just as it is now.
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Old 07-08-2020, 03:20 PM
 
Location: Charleston, SC
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Define "American". To a liberal, the illegal alien that just hopped over the border fence is an "American". And that illegal is surely going to say "I identify as an American" after being asked in Spanish how he identifies.
American means a citizen of the US. Tax paying legal citizen.
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