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...wake of Fong's opinion, minority groups and coalitions of minority groups are banding together to talk about racism and self-segregation. This is certainly constructive, positive behavior. However, what minorities and Whites need to remember is that the ending of racial stereotypes and self-segregation on the Harvard campus is not solely dependant upon minority groups changing their perspectives, their behaviors, and opening up. At the same time, white students need to be willing to be the only white student at a table...
...Demote homosexuals to second class citizens? Enslave them? Kill them? Tell them to stop being homosexuals, because they made the wrong choice? I daresay we are not "past" the issue of homosexuality in our society, but we should be. We are also not past the issue of race and racial discrimination in our society, but no one should propose reopening the debate on whether or not black people are inferior to white people, or whites to blacks, in order to figure out how to coexist. I daresay again that that tactic might be more divisive than helpful...
...Budget, which makes decisions like this, told the Census Bureau to make "Hispanic" a category on the form. The so-called "Hispanic" population is a creation of this political discourse. The question then becomes, why did the OMB decide to juxtapose an ethnic designation like "Hispanic" with a racial designation, like "black"? Ethnicity and race are not interchangeable categorizations...
...There is this idea that people have mistakenly got that somehow the Hispanic population is like a racial group that you can compare to African Americans - but to suggest that white Cubans have the same experience as, say, Puerto Ricans is ridiculous...
...Look, almost 95 percent of people who answered "other" with regard to the race question are Hispanic, while the rest of the population chose one of the traditional categories. A lot of Hispanics, in other words, are trying to find their racial space in America. And that leads to another question raised but not answered in the census: Why do these racial categories have so much significance in America? If a full 43 percent of Hispanics don't see themselves fitting into any category, what does that mean...