IS "WHITE" AND "BLACK" A POLITICAL STATUS?

There have been many  Moors who claim that we should not refer to ourselves as "Black" and that label has a status attached to it of a lower class citizen. Today we investigate this claim and take a look at a case entitled United States v. Cartozian, 6 F.2d 919 (D. Or. 1925)

The test is racial, and for practical purposes of the statute must be applied to a group of living persons now possessing in common the requisite characteristics for naturalization. Nor is it one to be wholly determined by ethnological and scientific research, but it must satisfy the common understanding that the racial characteristics are now the same, or sufficiently so to justify the interpreters of the statute written in the words of common speec:h for common understanding by unscientific men in classifying such persons together in the statutory category as white persons. United States v. Thind, 261 U.S. 204, 209, 43 S. Ct. 338, 67 L. Ed. 616. In defining the type of person eligible to citizenship, the court uses this language:

"The words of familiar speech, which were used by the original framers of the law, were intended to include only the type of man whom they knew as white. The immigration of that day was almost exclusively from the British Isles and Northwestern Europe, whence they and their forbears had come. When they extended the privilege of American citizenship to `any alien, being a free white person,' it was these immigrants bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh and their kind whom they must have had affirmatively in mind.