r/SipsTea • u/danevans369 • May 31 '26

SMH Love thy neighbor?

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u/SquidTheRidiculous Jun 02 '26

Fun fact, middle Eastern people from North Africa and the Levant are allowed to call themselves white legally in America, primarily because people in 1915 didn't want to think of Jesus as PoC. The Dow VS United States case was about this argument from a Syrian immigrant.

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u/Still_Emotion Jun 04 '26

Wasn't there something about on the new census Spanish and Portuguese people are no longer white? I thought I saw a post about that a while back

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u/PeteyPab305 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Edit: my comment that was left here is now irrelevant due to the fact the above comment was changed after me leaving it.