Shay wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>>
>> If you want to suppose that race can be determined, then I propose a
>> government wide challenge. Any official, acting, sitting, whatever, who
>> needs to be able to identify a person as being one race or another,
>> should be able to identify, and categorize, from picture peoples of the
>> following decent: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, Thai,
>> Vietnamese, Maori, Malaysian, Native Austrialian; Indian, Saudi, Iraqi,
>> Egyptian; Nigerian, South Afriacan, Brazilian, Mexican, American,
>> British . . . and so on. Any misses would show that the traits they are
>> making decisions based on are either not indicative of a certain race or
>> it would show they are incapable of applying race as a means of
>> separating the correct people for what ever it is the law allows them to
>> separate people for.
> 
> I propose a challenge.
> 
> Let's take 50 Arizona police officers, follow them for a day, and see
> how accurately they identify illegal aliens. One side or the other would
> have to STFU about the quality of the officer's profiling methods.
> 
>  -Shay

We would have to agree to an acceptable success rate. If we could do
that, we could solve a few other problems.

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