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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Joey, they were white:
"The U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation also categorizes "white people" as "people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa, through racial categories used in the UCR Program adopted from the Statistical Policy Handbook (1978) and published by the Office of Federal Statistical Policy and Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce."
This may blow your mind, but "Muslim" is not a race. If it were, the majority of the people on this board would be Muslim, as many genealogists speculate that all people of European ancestry are descended from Mohammed. Fun fact!
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...yal-we/302497/ |
The issue isn't race. The issue is political correctness silencing descriptions of a suspect due to presumed sensitivities
about race or any other demographic element that might describe the perpetrator being sought after.