Thread: NM: State office of Hispanic Affairs proposed.....

Segregation in the United States, legal or social practice of separating people on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Segregation by law, or de jure segregation, occurred when local, state, or national laws required racial separation, or where the laws explicitly allowed segregation. De jure segregation has been prohibited in the United States since the mid-1960s. De facto segregation, or segregation in fact, occurs when social practice, political acts, economic circumstances, or public policy result in the separation of people by race or ethnicity even though no laws require or authorize racial separation. De facto segregation has continued even when state and federal civil rights laws have explicitly prohibited racial segregation.

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Isn't this a form of governing by segregation?

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
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Originally Posted by grandmasmad

Originally Posted by usanevada

"New Mexico has a cabinet-level Indian Affairs Department and an Office of African American Affairs."


How about an office of white persons affairs ?

I'm sure that would go over real well

agree completely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MAYBE AN "OFFICE OF WHITE PERSONS AFFAIRS" OUGHT TO OPEN UP, JUST TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. MAYBE PEOPLE WOULD REALIZE JUST HOW DIVISIVE AND STUPID IT WOULD BE!