Born and raised in Mozambique, now a naturalized citizen, Paulo Sediro is suing a New Jersey medical school and claiming he was harassed and ultimately suspended for identifying himself during a class cultural exercise as a "white Afro-American"
After Serodio labeled himself as a white African-American, another student said she was offended by his comments and that, because of his white skin, was not an African-American.
According to the lawsuit, Serodio was summoned to Duncan's office where he was instructed "never to define himself as an African-American & because it was offensive to others and to people of color for him to do so."
"It's crazy," Serodio's attorney Gregg Zeff told ABCNews.com. "Because that's what he is."
'White African American' Suing N.J. Med School for Discrimination
Who decided that every one with black skin was an Afro-American and that Afro-Americans can't be white? That everyone from Mexico or Guatemala or Nicaragua should be called Hispanic? That American Indians wanted to be called Native Americans instead of Shawnee, Sioux or Navajo?
Once people accept being labelled, it becomes easier to accept that one can only believe certain things and that's what identity politics is all about.
Last week, after attending a concert with a friend, we strolled in the spring evening on the streets of Cambridge and bumped into friends of my friend. The woman, who I heard later had a gay son who died of AIDS, said she had just come from a showing of new film "Outrage" which purports to out several politicians saying they were secretly gay while publicly opposing legislation like gay marriage.
When I demurred from the premise that anyone's privacy should be violated in such a way and said maybe they were against some legislation on policy or political grounds, the woman hissed, "They're evil."
After that incident Bookworm's post on The inevitable result of identity politics resonated
The film “Outrage,” however, typecasts gays, and denies them the right to examine issues through a lens other than their own sexuality. I say this without knowing or caring whether the men and women named in the movie are actually gay. What I care about, deeply, is the pressure the gay community imposes upon its members to abjure independent thought, and to march lockstep through a series of complicated and contentious issues.
For a community that, a mere 40 years ago, broke free of the shackles imposed against it, it’s a real tragedy that it now insists upon imposing similar shackles upon itself.
James Hudnall is a far stronger voice against political correctness saying PC is censorship, bigotry disguised as manners, an attempt at mind control and evil in PC Must Die.