How A Supreme Court Case Redefined Whiteness

Very informative,… the caste system in India vs Anti-Black in America.

Kudos to Ms Bhat for a well researched piece of history and fluid presentation. Learnt many new things …

This is why India will side with Russia instead of USA

The bush era brought 3rd 4th mixed ethnicity europeans into a cityscape of resource defficient areas. Their labor is all in "non-essential services". They do no contribution to resources.
They adapt racial swede-science as their lifeline. Sweden is in western europeasia.
They claim generationsl american starus as the virginia company will show they have no ties to the land. They may leave when they have a pleasant day.

And now BIPOC communities are excluding Asians for being "white adjacent".

I have to ask, why does his caste matter here? I don’t get why the western media keeps talking about this BS. I am a huge fan of PBS but seriously that’s the first word you start off with? Also it never amazes me to see Indian Americans just jump on this bandwagon without giving a second thought.

Funnily enough he is not even a Hindu but a Sikh.

He was a racist, Casteist, colorist Punjabi who denigrated his fellow Indians in his scam to try and gain American citizenship and overall did nothing to move the scale on Indian immigration to America.

Just goes to illustrate how stupid these legal distinctions based on race are.

Similarly, 'white' used to exclude most Italians, Turks, and Arabs. An English person marrying a Sicilian was once illegal bc it was deemed interracial. Now, they're all officially 'white. '

My hometown was roughly split between German protestants in the West, and Polish Catholics in the East. Cross marriages were rare until the 60's. We all now agree this was fucking stupid. Which racial or religious discriminations will our kids think are dumb and arbitrary? Hopefully all that remain.

Asians are White adjacent!

Danielle Romero’s channel is getting strikes & shadow banned for posting stuff like this. In fact she posted this SAME EXACT story last year.

I used to like PBS, now not so much. I don’t think it really being honest. I’m black and African descent, Asians are not the same as us or my Hispanic brother and sisters. Stop equating, they willingly want to become white and they willingly leave the culture they know, we (Haiti, Venezuela, Columbia, Cuba, etc) are having our countries destroyed by US policies and then denied entry into the same place that destabilized our homes. Asians, Jews
And European people are white, it is what it is…..your not some distinct race when you argue against affirmative action using the same rhetoric as whites, your just dare I say…..cunning.

Fm the first brick & stitch; Thou shalt not kill – except an Indian, so as I may be free from the Crown. That is America's foundation & quilt upon all other laws & culture of our society was built upon. Want to really make a difference?! CHANGE the ELECTION LAW to allow all parties representation in government based on the %age of the votes vs winner-takes-all.

It’s misleading to frame this as racist. When you look closer at original government documents the concerns have to do with the immigrants skill set, years of education, work experience and language skills (or lack thereof).

The government was concerned about how and if the immigrants would be able to make a life in the US and support themselves.

The exact same concerns were raised about many Eastern European immigrants for the same reasons and they were white!

It’s dishonest to frame it as racism when that wasn’t the issue. You can certainly manipulate the narrative and make it look racist by lying by omission.

It’s also unnecessary to give current Indian Americans the idea that they were considered the “worst immigrants” when it has very little to do with their Indian heritage per se but rather with fears of integration. Keep in mind, the government didn’t have years and years of history to look back on like we do today seeing immigrants become successful and productive members of society. Something Indian Americans in particular have proven beyond expectations.

These types of narratives potentially stirs up racial tensions, conflict and division. It can make immigrants feel like they don’t belong even though their past is very similar to the history of other immigrant groups who came here with less experience, money and skills etc than other immigrant groups.

When they say make America great again this is what they are talking about

Indentured Servants — my family came this way. They married an African American. Now, I am Afro-Asian American.

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History is so crazy sometimes.😆😆😆😆😆😆😂😂😁😁

I'm glad to see that he kept wearing his religious turban and didn't feel compelled to abandon his culture to become an American.

India consists mainly of two populations….indigenous darkskinned, small bodied population distantly related to East Asians and Andaman islanders and a larger, lightskinned Europid people originating in the west. There were probably multiple flows from Western Eurasia in prehistoric times and certainly a couple within recorded history. Most people in India are on a spectrum between those typological extremes with most of the population mixed in between somewhere, but yes, those relatively "pure" West Eurasian descendants can mark themselves as white and there's nothing wrong with that. The only issue is cultural acceptance.