MA GOP Calls For Harvard Investigation Of Warren’s Minority Status

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10. Racial/Minority identification is a really sticky thing

I'm black, my late wife was black. Upon our return to the US our daughters' "blackness" was challenged since they did not understand the social customs of urban African Americans. That did not make them any less black, but is upset some people quite badly.

Another example is Zimmerman, is he really Hispanic?

Is blood quantum the right answer which is used for American Indian tribes and Hawaiians? Note that it was also used in apartheid South Africa. With the current fad of DNA testing, who knows what might be found and claimed.

If you work for the US government, you can declare whatever you want when it comes to racial and ethnic identification on "official" paperwork. It cannot be challenged. If someone who is of European ancestry want to declare themselves a Hispanic Pacific Islander and their religion is Jedi, it will be accepted, recognized and counted.

Canada has the concept of "Visible Minority". Not sure how well that works...anybody have some insights?