Ricardo_Tizon wrote:I believe another good reason to eliminate race classification is that it is very hard for people with mixed ancestry. If your father is Causasian and your mother is Black does this makes you gray. What about the Chinese which is Yellow mixed with a Filipino Brown. Does this make your race **** color?
The last US Census included the option to claim a variety of mixed ancestries for the specific reason of that dilemma, didnt it?
If you want, you can find ways to go around such problems and the last US Census would prove that, I think, on this count. The problem you mention is actually relatively easy to solve by adding such mixed categories. If you want it to be better / more precise / etc, it should be improved rather than done away with.
On another thread I argued against "political correctness", in the sense that "political correctness" often has people avoiding calling things by their name. Typical example I used then, was the case where a professor had written a book about the use of the word "nigger" through history, and the book was banned from use in schools. Banned because one shouldn't say "nigger". But thats taking things the wrong way around. You shouldnt use the word "nigger", because its use connotates entrenched racism - its the
racism that is offensive. But how can you battle racism if you cant call its uses by their name?
Same here. We want people to be equal and to be treated equal. But as it stands, people are not treated equally. Race is still a factor in people being treated inequally. Even most opponents of AA dont dispute this, they merely contend that this is "less and less so". So what do we do? Find out where the problem is, where racial inequality does appear, and do something about it? Or do we do it the other way around, and start out by banning talk of racial inequality, because it shouldnt exist?
If you want to find out where racial inequality still exists, if you want to discuss and tackle racial inequality, you need data. The alternative is just Orwellian newspeak: if we just act like it isnt there and forbid recording, registering and naming it, it wont really be there anymore. This is an inclination the politically correct leftists and the rightists proposing the sorts of this Proposition have in common. But thats kinda like a little child, who believes that if he puts his hand in front of his eyes and he cant see you, then you wont be able to see him either. The fact is, just cause you wont
record existing racial inequalities anymore, wont make them go away - they'll just be all the harder to tackle.
