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"Labor’s Sweet Reward I wonder if in a past life I bore hundredweight blocks of adamantine Resentment under the lash and up The ramps of accommodating lackeys for Pretenders to enslaving thrones. I wonder if in a past life My sedulous…"

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Caucasian Smaucasian

Posted on July 15, 2009 at 10:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

by Bert Woodall

Looking for a job offers a wealth of unpleasantries and irritations but one in particular pops up every time I file an application. Specifically, I am asked to specify an ethnicity. A short list of options is presented from which I am asked to choose exactly one. Of course for me there is really just one option and I take it: I lie.

Invariably I tick the little circle beside “Caucasian” (also sometimes presented as “Caucasian, non-Hispanic”) and just as… Continue

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At 7:49pm on July 9, 2009, Michael Levin said…: Hi Bert! Welcome to Zoobird. I hope to read more of your writing here. Here's a welcome - an urban mandala from the McRorie Community Garden in Gainesville.