It seems the Texas DPS officers can't tell if a person is Hispanic or White. All over the state DPS officers are marking Hispanic drivers as white thus evading the racial profiling laws and fudging the numbers reported.

DPS troopers are inaccurately recording the race of large numbers of minority drivers, mostly Hispanic, as white, according to a KXAN investigation. The agency's traffic stop data reveals racial profiling reports are likely flawed, according to experts.

http://kxan.com/investigative-story/tex ... -as-white/

Seems they also mark Blacks and Asians as white. DPS only has troopers that are color blind.

Sheriff Joe out in Mericopa County should have thought about this, it would have kept him out of some of his troubles.

The whole White/Hispanic/Non-Hispanic thing always struck me as racist, especially on the firearms transfer form. What does it matter if your name, address and SSN are already on there.

I have a co-worker of Mexican descent, he looks Hispanic but has an Anglo-Saxon last name so that confuses people - plus he never learned Spanish so that's fun at stores when Mexican employees start off speaking Spanish to him...

On the other hand, another friend's paternal grandfather was adopted by Hispanic neighbors as a child when his parents died and took their last name - so while my friend is white, blonde and has blue eyes, she has a Hispanic name which confuses people even more...

Can't we just get along? We're all pink on the inside

If we could only tell Us from Them.

TheViking wrote:The whole White/Hispanic/Non-Hispanic thing always struck me as racist, especially on the firearms transfer form. What does it matter if your name, address and SSN are already on there.

I have a co-worker of Mexican descent, he looks Hispanic but has an Anglo-Saxon last name so that confuses people - plus he never learned Spanish so that's fun at stores when Mexican employees start off speaking Spanish to him...

On the other hand, another friend's paternal grandfather was adopted by Hispanic neighbors as a child when his parents died and took their last name - so while my friend is white, blonde and has blue eyes, she has a Hispanic name which confuses people even more...

Can't we just get along? We're all pink on the inside

I agree. I remember my wife complaining when she first started teaching. She had to fill out ethnicity reports that asked the students race, but they were not to ask the students what race they claimed.

I worked with many nurses that were Hispanic but looked Anglo and had non-Hispanic names due to marriage or Father/Grandfather was non-Hispanic.