Anil DashOn this day in 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court *unanimously* decided that people of South Asian descent could not be American citizens, and retroactively stripped citizenship from many who had already been naturalized. Years of organized persecution followed. https://www.saada.org/explore/publications/tides/articles/united-states-of-america-vs-vaishno-das-bagai
Taran Rampersad@anildash yeah. The US census history is an amazingly silly bunch of stuff.
PurpleSage
Duckbilled Plattypus.@knowprose @Katiemorag @anildash
Both Thind and Ogawa used racism and racist tropes to prove their whiteness. Sigh. Hit the wall of racism. No, we're not special, we're not exceptional, we're not white, when it comes to racist America. South Asians, East Asians, Asians of all stripes will face the racist belief that we are "unfit" to be citizens, no matter what. Unless and until we see ourselves aligned against racism directed at African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans none of us will ever be equal.
@pattykimura @Katiemorag @anildash not sure if that 'we'.
I exist outside of those categories.
But I understand the point.
Of course, the Iranians made a better case.
But there everyone is, competing for an imagined status by a metric born of slavery .
@pattykimura @Katiemorag @anildash seems to me you came in to be the reply guy.
Duck billed platypus have no standing in the US Census last I checked.
Your move, anonymous.