I am rich and have no idea what to do

Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by pfannkuchen on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:12PM (#42589047)

This reminds me of that Supreme Court case from 1923 where the entire case was about deciding “are Indians white”.

Crazy how that was not that long ago in historical terms.

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Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by econ on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:13PM (#42591679)

Did they sentence him to being white?

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Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do by lazide on Saturday January 04, 2025 @12:48PM (#42596347)

I looked it up, thinking he was Native American.

But he was Sikh (Indian Indian), and arguing his proto-Indo-European ancestry qualified him. He was ‘acquitted’ of being ‘white’, and case thrown out. Really interesting case, actually.

Some pretty nasty stuff in there from the plaintiff about his revulsion too and not wanting to marry the ‘lower castes’ (and some argument regarding Mongoloids) to help quantify him as ‘white’ in case you get too sympathetic.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Sing...]

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