@Sammieswife: After looking up the sources of your multiple uncredited quotations, it appears that www.breitbart.com is your 'news' and information channel of choice.
Hardly neutral, objective or even factual. I'll stick with the U.S. Government Census report, thanks.
"...multiculturalism is still a relatively new thing..."
But, isn't multiculturalism inherent in the history of the United States?
From the very beginning, did not Spaniards, English, French, Dutch and - yes - even Africans arrive in the "New World" with sometimes more than vestigial elements of their home cultures... alongside the resident N.A.s?
I think you are repeating the racist propaganda of the race baiters who believe whites can kill blacks and nothing will ever be investigated and everything will be covered over with a nod and a wink.
From what I've heard and read, I do believe that this actually would/could happen in some instances and places in the U.S., if big noise were not made to draw attention to the event. Of course, this can (over time) lead to the pre-emptive and overbearing making of big noise, and result in the jading of even objective observers.
sosoconfused: Thanks for the laugh! [Sorry, I feel as though I've broken etiquette at a funeral, though. ]
I think I want to meet one of these supermen!
In the interest of sticking to the facts, TM was 5'11
Didn't you know? The human body continues to grow after death.
I believe he was described as 6'2" here, a few days ago. Marvelous!
trayvon/zimmerman....it's all about race....that's what some people keep saying.
you criticize the president, and you are against blacks.
you talk about illegal aliens and you hate mexicans.
Yeah, cynical, ... but with a twist of humour.
I would feel in danger if a 6.5ft black guy had punched me to the ground, was beating me and pouding my head against the concrete.
That's curious. Does being "black" add superpower to an assailant's punch? Makes it more fearful?
trayvon/zimmerman....it's all about race....that's what some people keep saying.
you criticize the president, and you are against blacks.
you talk about illegal aliens and you hate mexicans.
This brings to mind an adage (maybe a bit dated, now): Be the change you want to see.
What is the "Gabby Giffords incident"? [I apologize if it is already a matter of general knowledge here.]
sammieswife: They decided at that moment they had to act quickly to save their own skin and so a reporter with a NY based paper and the company used for the spin - then came up with a new term for the alledged killer - they began to refer to him as a 'white hispanic'.
Now, I'm not there (U.S.) to verify this, but Wikipedia says that the term "white hispanic" pre-dates this Zimmerman trial, and is - in fact- an official classification of the U.S. Census. Do you disagree?
"In the United States, a White Hispanic or White Latino [17] is a citizen or resident who is racially white and of Hispanic descent. White American, itself an official U.S. racial category, refers to people "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa" who reside in the United States. [18]
Based on the definitions created by the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Census Bureau, the concepts of race and ethnicity are mutually independent, and respondents to the census and other Census Bureau surveys are asked to answer both questions. Hispanicity is independent of race, and constitutes an ethnicity category, as opposed to a racial category, the only one of which that is officially collated by the U.S. Census Bureau. For the Census Bureau, Ethnicity distinguishes between those who report ancestral origins in Spain or Hispanic America (Hispanic and Latino Americans), and those who do not (Non-Hispanic Americans). [19] [20] The U.S. Census Bureau asks each resident to report the "race or races with which they most closely identify." [21]
White Americans are therefore divided between "White Hispanic" and "Non Hispanic White," the former consisting of White Americans who report Hispanophone ancestry (Spain and Hispanic Latin America), and the latter consisting of White Americans who do not report Hispanophone ancestry." (Wikipedia, White Hispanic and Latin Americans)
