You see, I find it very telling about how racialized our government still behaves.
A brown skinned Latino man is going to be labeled, in the end, "Latino" or "Hispanic-American". This implies a non-White racial category. A light skinned Hispanic with European features is going to be considered "White-Hispanic".
I find this curious. It's almost as if they include "White" before "Hispanic" to remind the census that "Hey, the whites are still over here in this corner too!" Nevermind that there are "Black-Hispanics". This is of less importance. As long as we know they're non-White, we can calculate them in proportion to the White ones.
To me this is a small proof, though not the only one, of the remnants of White Supremacy in our institutions.
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