I find computer scientist, Les Earnest to be an interesting, thoughtful and entertaining writer. After he moved to Virginia in the early sixties, he started self-identifying as “Mongrel” rather than allow himself to be classified by any one meaningless and not-very scientific concept of “race”.
> in 1966 I discovered that something very good had happened: the race question had disappeared from the security clearance form. In fact, this question disappeared from nearly all government forms then. I liked to think I helped that change along.
> I have argued that all historical and present racial and ethnic classification systems for individuals are nonsensical and so are the laws, court decisions, computer applications, and bureaucratic superstructures that have been built on top of them.
For more context, I’d recommend checking out the author’s bio at https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ – which includes a relevant photograph of the man himself.
> in 1966 I discovered that something very good had happened: the race question had disappeared from the security clearance form. In fact, this question disappeared from nearly all government forms then. I liked to think I helped that change along.
> I have argued that all historical and present racial and ethnic classification systems for individuals are nonsensical and so are the laws, court decisions, computer applications, and bureaucratic superstructures that have been built on top of them.
For more context, I’d recommend checking out the author’s bio at https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ – which includes a relevant photograph of the man himself.