as for how the Sizzlean do it, it's probably still the case, but you should
> check: cops assign the race, last I knew.
>
It may vary by state. I'm dark-skinned "white" (Palestinians thinks I'm one of them until I open my mouth), and I've had a couple of Virginia cops who had pulled me over for speeding ask, in a disinterested, bureaucratic, filling-out-the-forms sort of way, just what the hell I was, anyway.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."