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BumRushDaShow

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11. The U.S. racial classification is what it is
Wed May 20, 2015, 06:13 AM
May 2015

as bizarre as it is. There were "3" races - "Caucasoid", "Negroid", "Mongoloid". You can thank Europe for creating and enforcing the nonsense in its colonies and former colonies.

"Hispanic" is a language group. "People of Color" is generic. In South Africa, with similar idiocy, you got a group called "Coloured" (which included many from India or admixtures with Indians).

You have "black" Hispanics (Dominicans and some Cubans and Puerto Ricans, etc, who resulted from European and indigenous intermingling with African slave populations), and "white" Hispanics (some from the same regions as noted previously, but who are European Spaniards, or descendents of Spaniards who intermingled with native, non-African-descended populations in Mexico/Central America/South America).

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Its an idiotic comparison AgingAmerican May 2015 #1
"Hispanic" is not a race. nt BumRushDaShow May 2015 #5
So that means they don't fall under the heading Igel May 2015 #9
The U.S. racial classification is what it is BumRushDaShow May 2015 #11
Where's the military gear on the cops? Why aren't these people characterized as "thugs"? Liberal_Stalwart71 May 2015 #2
White On White Violence billhicks76 May 2015 #3
"Facing down police" - that's your first clue. Nt hack89 May 2015 #4
Now this is an idiotic comparison Android3.14 May 2015 #6
Keep telling yourself that if it helps validate your biases... LanternWaste May 2015 #21
You'll need to be more specific Android3.14 May 2015 #22
"peaceably rounding up" LOL mwrguy May 2015 #7
Compared to this, where people were peacefully protesting BumRushDaShow May 2015 #12
"Why didn't they throw tear gas" mwrguy May 2015 #14
Use of "deadly force" is par for the course BumRushDaShow May 2015 #15
I noted that CNN had a discussion about this yesterday BumRushDaShow May 2015 #8
What is their curfew? classykaren May 2015 #10
So four of the Waco guys were killed by cops, yet none of the Ferguson protesters were? Nye Bevan May 2015 #13
The Ferguson protest was DUE to the killing of an unarmed civilian BumRushDaShow May 2015 #16
Were groups of protestors engaged in firefights with each other, before turning bullwinkle428 May 2015 #17
I think the deadly police response in Waco was justified. Nye Bevan May 2015 #18
I concur mwrguy May 2015 #20
When I was twenty years old my friend and I were bouncers at Mac's Bar in Daytona Beach... DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #19
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