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I think it's a bad idea any way you slice or dice it. Either it's an academic legal theory as some claim (in which case it belongs in law schools, not elementary, middle or early high school) or it's divisive as others claim. Personally, I fall on the side of divisive after being explained in great detail by my (white) history professor that I am a white man because, even though I'm brown and have faced ample discrimination (of the very explicit kind, not some voodoo-doodoo systemic crap), since I'm successful and well off and well spoken, I'm not really an immigrant, not really a minority and actually white on the inside in a process he described as 'whitening'.

You no sorry, my melanin and my experience beg to differ. I refuse to use 'whiteness' as a synonym of success. That is the most racist thing I've ever heard. How successful you are is not and should not be measured by how 'white' you are. Sorry not falling for this shit.