economic stats (as if people mattered)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>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.

*Empirical evidence* that a few Polish Americans looking like Latinos 
in the eyes of WASPy whites has had a statistical impact on 
Polish-American chances of becoming victims of racial profiling & 
police brutality?  You have *none*, do you?

As for being Jewish in America, this is one of the few areas in which 
America has made genuine social advance probably: Jewish assimilation 
& radical decrease in anti-Semitism.  Otherwise, Gore would never 
have chosen Joe Lieberman for VP, however congenially conservative 
his economic views might be, in keeping with the New Democrat's Third 
Way.

Yoshie