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In reply to the discussion: Warren listed race as 'American Indian' on Texas bar registration [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)It just didn't matter most of the time, and I can remember laughing with friends about what to check, especially if only one box was allowed. Sometimes people just took that chance to "represent" a minor part of themselves.
We had no idea the nation was going to become MORE divided and angry. We were going the other way back then.
Speaking of, what might happen in future to all those white "Hispanics" in many nations of the Americas who, as a matter of principle and unity, have been aligning with indigenous peoples, refusing to differentiate themselves and thinking that's a good thing? How long until this blows up in their faces in this country as people of Mayan heritage, for instance, decide it's deeply offensive and just another means of exploitation and abuse by privileged whites?