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<blockquote data-quote="Cedar Creek" data-source="post: 1288789" data-attributes="member: 12387"><p>I think that's a good question, and I'm not sure what a good answer would be. <img src="/images/smilies/lookaround.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lookaroun" title="Lookaround :lookaroun" data-shortname=":lookaroun" /> The issue of race in America is becoming more complex with every generation as the melting pot melts more and more. Examples in my circle of friends are people of mixed race who most would identify visually as being African-American, which they are on one side, but are also half Native American and have a Native American surname and cultural identity. I could see that being confusing to an officer.</p><p></p><p>Also - who gets to pick the race you are identified by? I was reading an old Oklahoma law book from about 1919 one time and it had legal definitions of race - one of which stated that a person with the slightest trace of African blood was by statute a *****. Our president is half white and raised mostly with his white grandparents, but he is identified as black.</p><p></p><p>Cedar Creek</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cedar Creek, post: 1288789, member: 12387"] I think that's a good question, and I'm not sure what a good answer would be. :lookaroun The issue of race in America is becoming more complex with every generation as the melting pot melts more and more. Examples in my circle of friends are people of mixed race who most would identify visually as being African-American, which they are on one side, but are also half Native American and have a Native American surname and cultural identity. I could see that being confusing to an officer. Also - who gets to pick the race you are identified by? I was reading an old Oklahoma law book from about 1919 one time and it had legal definitions of race - one of which stated that a person with the slightest trace of African blood was by statute a *****. Our president is half white and raised mostly with his white grandparents, but he is identified as black. Cedar Creek [/QUOTE]
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