I have heard the meme "I never heard of 'White Hispanic' before Trayvon Martin" and variations ...

[zbdent]

but I spent a portion of 2010 being a census enumerator ... and I remembered that answering "White" as your race on the census form had nothing to do with answering your ethnicity - which could be Hispanic.

So, any time that a person pushing the RW agenda says "I never heard of White Hispanic", I remember the form (see questions 8 and 9 for "Person 1", questions 5 and 6 for "Person 2-6&quot :

http://2010.census.gov/2010census/pdf/2010_Questionnaire_Info.pdf

[HockeyMom]

1. Remember Bush?

Mexican RACE. They just make up things as they want.

[zbdent]

8. while I was an enumerator, I lost count of how many people initially answered "American"

on the "race" question ...

That made me believe that there was yet another RW agenda being played ...

[immoderate]

2. "White" is a relative term in the US.

Even now, to some people, Irish, Italians, and Jews are not white.


--imm

[zbdent]

5. I heard what appeared to be a "leftish" argument yesterday ...

Obama's father is black, his mother's white. What does the "media" refer to him as? "Our first BLACK President."

Zimmerman's father is WHITE, his mother is Hispanic. I know, it's a stretch for the person to say that the "father determines the designation", but his implication would be that Z would be "white" by paternal genetics.

Then again, since the President's father was Kenyan, and his mother was a citizen of the U.S.A. (and there was a move to make it legal for Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for President, nullifying the "birthers'" arguments), that would truly make President Obama our first "African-American" President.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. The designation, isn't white, non hispanic?

[Bacchus4.0]

4. me too, of course there are caucasian hispanics. Argentina is like 95%

however, I think Zimmerman is more mestizo. I notice there is no box to check for that on the form. since you worked for the census, you should look into Puerto Rico and take a look how many self identify as white. race isn't always viewed the same in latin america as the US.

[Arctic Dave]

6. I think most people don't realize that Spain is in Europe.

Spain conquered the Americas and left a trail of European ancestry in the wake.

[arcane1]

7. I had never heard of it, or at least never noticed it before

And saying so doesn't mean I'm "pushing the RW agenda"

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. It is still about the dominant culture..

choosing how to identify us. Hispanic was created during the Nixon administration.