The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91580 Message #1744573
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
20-May-06 - 02:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Using the N-word.
Subject: RE: BS: Using the N-word.
You seldom (probably never) see questionnaires, job applications and the like, asking for you to fill in "Race". Fine, say I.
Before the next paragraph I'll say that my ancestry, as far back as I know about, is German.
About fifty years ago, when I was in college, I adopted the procedure, when faced with such a box on an application, to fill in "Human". At the time it seemed a rather nervy thing to do, and I wondered if I'd get a negative reaction to it.
So far as I could tell, no-one ever reacted negatively to my wilful failure to answer the question they really meant, nor did anyone ask for any clarification expansion of what I meant.