Lines are so blurred that nobody even knows what color and race (and gender, but that's another topic) are.
An old friend (female) whose ex-husband is a Mexican who lives and works in Texas (legally, and who may even be an American citizen) e-mailed me a couple of days ago to implore me to "do something" about ending gun violence against people of color. Her example is her 45-year old son, whom she described as "Mexican-American."
I won't get into it with her, but ... since when is "Mexican" or "Mexican-American" a color? It may be an ethnicity, but that would depend entirely on how he was raised. His mother is very Anglo in heritage, looks, and speech. I don't think her son would even qualify as "Latino," and since I don't think he was raised in Spain he certainly isn't "Hispanic."
I contrast this to my late wife, who was from South America. She was adamant that she was a Latina, but that she had never been to Spain so she wasn't Hispanic. And she strongly protested any attempts to classify her race as anything other than "White."
