Not Hispanic or Latino

So this is a Chiconky thing that bothered me.  I applied for a job through the State of Colorado, and this was part of the online application.  Although it clearly states that a response isn’t required, and that this info is for federal record keeping purposes only, it still bothered me.  As a Chiconky, I have been checking two boxes, Other, or Hispanic or Latino all my life.  This is the first time that I have ever encountered a set of responses that specifically stated “Not Hispanic or Latino” after EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE OTHER THAN HISPANIC OR LATINO!  Yes, I’m shouting about it because it’s bleeding weird.  Current statistics state that Hispanics/Latinos are the fastest growing minority in the United States.  Is it because many of those “new” H/Ls are really Chiconkys?  Why is the federal government now forcing me to choose between being Caucasian (Not Hispanic or Latino) and Hispanic or Latino?  It’s bullshit!  I’m both!  I’m not more one than the other, and no other ethnicity has this distinction on this application.  It even says, “Two or more races, not Hispanic or Latino”.  Wtf?

Little White Friends…

Today Hunter went to a very nice birthday party for one of his preschool friends.  It was in a very fancy neighborhood with mostly very white people.  Nice, wonderful people.  I didn’t think about it too much, but I of course immediately surveyed the crowd to see if I was the only darkie.  There were a couple more who were at least not white and blonde, but I don’t know what they were and didn’t really care to talk about it.  I just wanted to have a nice time with my family.  Which I did.  I did get a grin when all the tow headed little boys with little white boy names like, well, Hunter were all gathered around the birthday boy opening presents.  He blended right in. 

When the party was over, we were all walking to the car.  I said to Hunter, “Did you have a good time with all your little Y friends?”  You see, he met all these kids while attending preschool at the YMCA.  My husband says, “Oh God I thought you were gonna say all your little white friends.  I was like geez I know but can you at least wait until we get in the car?”  HIlarious.