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
>
>I wouldn't be too sure.  Take away Wojtek's trotsky
>eyeglasses and facial growth, put him in the right
>clothes and place, and you wouldn't be able to
>pick him out of a crowd of latinos.
>
>Seems to me anyone who isn't blonde/Nordic
>could pass for Latino.  Except if they were black.
>Then they could actually be latino, but that possibility
>would be glossed over.
>
>mbs

Likewise, being Latino doesn't necessarily mean being non-white.

I'd severely doubt, however, that Wojtek has had as regular 
encounters with cops as his black peers must have.

The point is that even for middle-strata blacks who are Wojtek's 
economic peers & agree with him on crime policy, the wars on crimes & 
drugs have been a more mixed blessing due to racial profiling & 
police brutality than they probably have been for Wojtek & whites 
(however hyphenated they may be) in general.  If their experiences 
had been the same, America's racial stratification & political 
landscape would have been different as well.

You are a Jew and (maybe!!!) could pass for a Latino, but I doubt 
your police encounters in D.C. have been in the neighborhood of 
blacks encounters.

Yoshie