NBA UPDATE
Is Pau Gasol Hispanic or Latino? Neither
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Pau Gasol, left, and Joakim Noah sport a Los Bulls shirt before a 'Noches EneBeA' game against Los Spurs on March 8.
“Mom, am I white, black or Puerto Rican?” My teenage son asks me as he hands me his laptop open to his SAT test registration page. “I can only pick one.”
Tough question.
I look at the checkbox option and yes, it is true, after one choice, the program advances to the next query. There are several different Hispanic options (there is “Mexican or Mexican American” and there is this one category: “Other Hispanic, Latin or Latin American”), but the College Board allows only one choice. For race or ethnicity, it is either/or. And only one ethnicity per student.
Soon -- very soon -- those either/or choices will be no reflection of the country. ........Read more
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