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20. No one is arguing with your straw man. n/t

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Fri Aug 10, 2018, 05:41 PM

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How is it that all 4 of my Grandparents were considered non-white, but I'm considered white? [View all] louis c Aug 2018 OP

Got some of that Middle Eastern blood.... Historic NY Aug 2018 #1

My husband is of Italian & Sicilian ancestry. Dulcinea Aug 2018 #28

Same with the Irish Older Than I Look Aug 2018 #2

Not sure what you are talking about. They definitely would have been considered SweetieD Aug 2018 #3

Read the link. louis c Aug 2018 #5

Italians were NOT considered white Drahthaardogs Aug 2018 #18

July 30, 1866, 44 African Americans were killed in New Orleans in a race riot LakeSuperiorView Aug 2018 #37

Yes it was Drahthaardogs Aug 2018 #41

You are saying that manner someone was murdered is the important part? LakeSuperiorView Aug 2018 #42

I am saying that is you looked up the largest mass lynching in American Drahthaardogs Aug 2018 #45

That's exactly what I did and the top article LakeSuperiorView Aug 2018 #46

Google the largest mass Lynching in American history Drahthaardogs Aug 2018 #49

Told you, I did Google. LakeSuperiorView Aug 2018 #51

I agree blueniteflower Aug 2018 #53

Gee, I just watched Vendetta the story of the LARGEST mass Drahthaardogs Aug 2018 #55

No one is arguing with your straw man. n/t pnwmom Aug 2018 #20

No that's quite wrong Loki Liesmith Aug 2018 #26

This "racial adaptability" chart from 1925 separates "White Americans" from "Italians" ck4829 Aug 2018 #32

One is perceived by how they appear when walking out their front door. NCTraveler Aug 2018 #4

My point is that during this time of thinking that we will become a Majority-Minority nation louis c Aug 2018 #6

The only appropriate response would have been. NCTraveler Aug 2018 #7

I don't think you understand louis c Aug 2018 #9

You are wrong. We are not all illegal immigrants. NCTraveler Aug 2018 #10

Then you must be a Native American. What tribe do you belong to? louis c Aug 2018 #11

I belong to the American Citizenship Tribe. NCTraveler Aug 2018 #12

I guess you just don't get it. louis c Aug 2018 #14

There is a difference between not getting it. NCTraveler Aug 2018 #15

It's kinda tough to "get" a dogmatic premise supported with little more than absolutism. LanternWaste Aug 2018 #47

I don't think you understand what "illegally" means Lee-Lee Aug 2018 #36

And disease d_r Aug 2018 #54

Most of our ancestors were either invaders from Europe or came here before pnwmom Aug 2018 #21

Before 1940. NCTraveler Aug 2018 #22

I see nowhere in the OP, which I just reread, where the OP claims that pnwmom Aug 2018 #23

They have called me illegal multiple times. NCTraveler Aug 2018 #24

That's how assimilation works. In a couple of generations all of sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 #8

Me too!!! phylny Aug 2018 #13

Shows you how fucked up racism is. ismnotwasm Aug 2018 #16

I totally understand what you're saying. Shanti Mama Aug 2018 #17

The Irish ran into the same thing. And I remember visiting England in the late 70's, pnwmom Aug 2018 #19

The origins of Paddy Wagon are unclear but some say it was the PD (Police Dept) LakeSuperiorView Aug 2018 #40

history of the term SoCalDem Aug 2018 #44

The racial categorization of black/white/asian is a social construct and can change any time ck4829 Aug 2018 #25

My point is that my contemporaries can't grasp the logic louis c Aug 2018 #33

That I think is a serious issue ck4829 Aug 2018 #35

Exactly. n/t pnwmom Aug 2018 #43

In a few decades Asians and some Latinos Loki Liesmith Aug 2018 #27

Indeed, and we're already seeing it ck4829 Aug 2018 #29

Wouldn't it be great Soxfan58 Aug 2018 #30

If you did that, then greymattermom Aug 2018 #31

It will take some time... N_E_1 for Tennis Aug 2018 #34

I have my father's 8th grade picture from 1928 CanonRay Aug 2018 #38

My Mom's family is from Salerno and Sicily HockeyMom Aug 2018 #39

Anti-Chinese sentiments, anti-Irish sentiments, anti-Italian sentiments have all come and gone. LanternWaste Aug 2018 #48

I'm Sicilian-Irish maveric Aug 2018 #50

This is true. If you were Irish or Italian, at one time underthematrix Aug 2018 #52

Because race and culture are malleable constructs. nt Hekate Aug 2018 #56