economic stats (as if people mattered)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Nov 11 14:43:05 PST 2000



>>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>>> >[CLIP] but i just wanted
>>> >to point out that "polish" doesn't mean "white".
>>> >
>>> >kelley
>>>
>>> You mean as often as blacks, Latinos, and even Arabs get stopped &
>> > harassed?
>
>if it wasn't clear yosh, many polish people have dark skin and hair
>and look latino. i don't know about how often they get stopped, but
>often enough for them to HATE the cops and they live in a fancy
>smancy high rise condo off the coast of clearwater beach. so.
>
>kelley

It would be a very rare Polish person to pass for Latino. And it takes a very rare Polish person to identify himself/herself as black, instead as white, in America. In any case, your assertion is utterly ungrounded in empirically verifiable evidence.

Yoshie



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