FYI: Hispanic isn't a race, it's an ethnicity.

As most of you know I rarely rant on my blog, but earlier today someone tried to argue with me that the Hispanic identifier is about race, nothing else. This person is clearly wrong and should have gotten a kick in the balls but since I was at work I couldn't do that. Plus the person in question has a PhD so they can be stupid and get away with it.

Anyhow, it's possible to be Hispanic and 100% Caucasian. The Hispanic identifier only means that you come from a Spanish-speaking culture and has nothing to do with race. As the link in the title shows the U.S. government specifically defines "Hispanic", basically, as "native Spanish-speaking, regardless of race". There are a lot of Caucasians in Latin American and Spain who are native Spanish speakers, so the U.S. Government and it's census term was specifically designed to include them. It is NOT a racial term, period. It often gets USED that way, because a large portion of the Hispanic population is Mexican, Central American, etc. But people who use it that way are using it incorrectly.