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This reminds me of that Supreme Court case from 1923 where the entire case was about deciding “are Indians white”. Crazy how that was not that long ago in hist
by pfannkuchen 2y ago
This reminds me of that Supreme Court case from 1923 where the entire case was about deciding “are Indians white”.
Crazy how that was not that long ago in historical terms.
- econ 2y agoDid they sentence him to being white?
- lazide 2y agoI looked it up, thinking he was Native American. But he was Sikh (Indian Indian), and arguing his proto-Indo-European ancestry qualified him. He was ‘acquitted’ of being ‘white’, and case thrown out. Really interesting case, actually. Some pretty nasty stuff in there from the plaintiff about his revulsion too and not wanting to marry the ‘lower castes’ (and some argument regarding Mongoloids) to help quantify him as ‘white’ in case you get too sympathetic. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Sing...]
- varelse 2y ago[dead]