When are you not only failing as a cable news network, but also your brand is the dumper, what does CNN do? Release an article on their website wondering why Hispanics idnetify as ‘white?’ I suppose this is from when the media called George Zimmerman a ‘white-Hispanic’ as CNN and other leftist networks tried to drum up racial tension. This is CNN:
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| CNN wonders why are Hispanics identifying as white? |
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That means there are black, white, even Asian Hispanics. The label “Hispanic” — meaning, “with origins or heritage in Spanish-speaking countries” — was intended by the census to be a category of linguistic and ethnic heritage, not an official “race” of its own.
Yet in recent decades, Hispanics or Latinos have indeed begun to forge a cross-cutting identity that can feel like a racial category (shorthanded as “brown”) and is sometimes set beside the other major blocs of America’s racial color grid. So Hispanics can be at once a race and not a race. It’s no wonder that media coverage of Hispanics can be muddled.
The second point of confusion is that the Pew study did not in fact find a Hispanic flight to whiteness.
What it found was that growing numbers of Hispanics, when told by government forms that they were not a race unto themselves and that they had to choose a race, chose the category called “white.” As the study authors noted, this reflected the convolutions and limits of the census forms (which are to change in 2020) at least as much any underlying yearning among Hispanics to be white.