When "Neighborhood Watch" Gets Out of Hand

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Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

His father is white, and his mother is white, Peruvian by nationality. The broad class known as "Hispanic" is not a racial classification.


Ocala Mike

Oh yes it is - it is treated that way. I remember forms I had to fill out while attending public school where they had an acronym "N.O.I.S.E" for racial classification.

The letters corresponded to (these are NOT my terms, so if they are not in vogue now - this is a time capsule)

N - Negroid
O - Oriental
I - Indian
S - Spanish descent (corresponding to Hispanic or South American)
E - Eurasian

The real answer is it's just more convenient to now refer to Mr. Zimmerman as white. Who's going to riot otherwise?