>>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
yoshie, i made no assertion other than that some polish people i know are treated as if they are latino which includes getting harassed by cops. in a drug war/police state like florida that's not weird.
polish people have dark skin, many jewish poles especially. they do, afterall, come from the balkan regions, yes? my lord, i can't believe you actually deny the experience of my friends AND wojtek who had pointed this out on this list before. before i moved to florida, i lived in a small village on the border of syracuse where a lot of eastern europeans immigrated. they were treated, often, as if they were latino. in fact, my kid came home one day and told me that everyone hated "the Ukes". why? i asked. "because they speak spanish".
to white people, they *look* latino.
it's not unlike how some puerto ricans are said to be black even though they'll deny it right up and down. and there is, in fact, a word for this but i can't think of it at the moment.
kelley
it's not an issue of identifying *as* latino (i didn't say black), it's about being treated as if you are.