Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic community in a fully moderated environment. In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
It’s poll time!
I just got a call from a pollster.
After the usual questions about my age and where I lived, she asked:
“Do you consider yourself White, African-American, Native American, Asian or Pacific Islander, or some other race?”
“No.”
“I’m sorry, sir, you have to chose one.“
“I don’t consider myself any of those things.”
“I need to put a race down.“
“Okay, Human.”
“I can’t put that down.”
“I guarantee that I’m not a fish in disguise.”
“It needs to be one of the choices: White, African-American, Native American, Asian or Pacific Islander, or some other race.”
“Race is an a artificial construct historically used to separate and divide people. By its very nature, race is a racist concept. I am not a racist, therefore I don’t use racist labels for myself or others.”
“Okay sir, thank you. That is all the questions I have for you. Have a blessed day.” [Hangs up]
Conclusion: Only racists are allowed to answer polls.
Published in Humor
Hahahaha! I’m going with pinky beige from now on.
No need to, It’s my gift to you.
“I’ll have You know I come from a rich, proud heritage of Hispanics and am deeply insulted to have been lumped in with the also-rans of ‘some other race.’…. So, put Me down as an Aborigine.”
The Marines, getting their definitions from some part of the government, I assume the DoD, would tell you that there are four races and any number of ethnicities. Your race would not be hispanic. That would be your ethnicity. Hispanics can be white, american indian, or black, and rarely even asian.
Races are real things, and we can certainly see trends and patterns of the races, but we certainly can’t define or require any individual to be part of one race or another. I look forward to the time when the government is forbidden to enquire as to someone’s race. That would be the best civil rights law.
We’ll, i don’t know about Hispanic, but yer definitely a person of color, Jimmuh!
Ever see that idiot woman on the 23 and Me commercial? She’s a Latina, but her 23 and Me analysis showed a lot of different countries, like most of us. So now when she’s filling out forms, she puts “Other.” No you’re an ethnic hispanic from Ohio you pinhead.
So…. there were only three races up until just about a couple few hundred years ago when the first “African-American” was born? Got it.
Let’s see I was born in Dallas, TX which we stole from Mexico…..does that make me Hispanic? Hmmmmm
About you being able to discern who was paying for that poll: did you tell her you had at least 6 working brain cells? That’s about all it would take to figure that out (no reflection on your actual capacity though, put down that brick).
Yeah, Crayola used to call it “flesh,” until They saw the light and became color blind, except for… You know… all those hundreds of colors that produce.
Best answer, “And I’ll assume you’re racist.”
LOL.
You know I’ve never actually seen a white person. All the people I’ve seen are varying shades of, I don’t know, brown? Even an albino wouldn’t be white. But my parents, grandparents, uncles and so on would have been very offended if I’d pointed that out to them. We all get out skin color from the amount of melanin in our skin, some have a lot but I’m ‘melanin challenged’.
I just really like your answers and attitude @josepluma
Ya know, people have been making fun of Crayola’s “flesh” for a really long time. This comedy bit’s from 1966:
“I can’t help your racist assumptions”
Hah, that was very sloppy of me.
Brilliant. Well put.
So you’ve ratified the Russian conquest of the Caucasus? Some of the residents there might still beg to differ.
I wonder if it’s a violation of federal law to refuse to answer the racial classification question on the upcoming national census.
Good luck getting Mueller to investigate. Unless he thinks he can use it as a way to get at Trump.
When I purchased a gun in the late 1990’s, the seller very kindly pointed out that I would get all sorts of hassle if I put “human” in the race box of the background check paperwork. (I put native American – note the capitalization – instead.)
We could start something. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if there was a sudden spike in the population of “native Americans” on the next census? Haha!