The only thing remarkable about Mindy Kaling's brother is that he's being public about it.
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Faking your race/ethnicity is rampant. Sorry if you're just now figuring that out. And it happens in different ways.
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There's a overt racist way, where someone makes up a race or ethnicity in order to get even more unearned advantage.
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One of your favorite labor reporters,
@politico's Mike Elk, is on the record as having pretended he was Native American to get into school.1 reply 12 retweets 3 likes -
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But it's not just him. White folks do this all the time. And never face any consequences as a result.
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Then there's white Latinos, who use affirmative action programs in order to gain an advantage over actual people of color.
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Yellow haired, blue eyed folks whose people made a quick stop in Latin America on their way from Spain claim POC ethnicity all the time.
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