(June 12, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(June 12, 2015 at 11:54 am)Secular Elf Wrote: Ethically however, she is in deep shit. She lied on her forms about her race, and she is now a professor of African-American Studies at a college, and a local NAACP chapter president. It will be interesting to see how this story will end.Ethically I think she's fine. Legally she might not be. If some of those forms were legal documents, then lying on them might be a criminal offense. However, I don't see anything wrong with a white person being a professor of African-American studies, nor being a NAACP chapter president. I don't really see any ethical issue with lying about your race on unofficial / non-legal documents, especially if your prospects would be restricted in some way if you didn't lie.
For example, if she was required to be non-white to become a NAACP chapter president, then I don't think it's an ethics issue to lie on the form; that requirement is discriminatory, and her lying could be seen as an act of civil disobedience.
Is there a hard legal definition in the US of when you are white or black, such that it could possibly be a legal issue?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
