Time was, in, oh, about 1850, when one drop of black blood in your ancestry was enough to have you legally marked as non-white and therefore ineligible for white privilege. The discrimination is still in effect, only the privilege has changed.
“If Elizabeth Warren, by virtue of her great-great-great-grandmother is entitled to protected status, are my children also minorities as a result of their Powhatan Indian ancestry that dates to the 17th century? As my eldest is applying for colleges next year, that would be awesome news[.] And if her 1/512th Indian ancestry doesn’t qualify, where is the breakpoint? Is it 1/64th? Or 1/128th? Or 1/256th?
“Exactly how many drops of minority blood makes one a minority?”
Well, it’s not just the drops. You also have to be politically-correct. A white father disqualified George Zimmerman to be a media-recognized Hispanic without qualification, marking him as a new political category, a “white Hispanic.” Not so with Uncle Barry’s white mother, however. No one (except me) calls him a “white African-American.”
Meanwhile, Warren demonstrates that there’s no racist like a Lefty racist.
UPDATE: Michael Barone considers this corrupt preference system.
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