Thinned's Arguments Reflect White Supremacy

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Matthew Huwe says the argument makes sense if you consider what thinned was dealing with. "I think he was trying to make a bargain with white supremacy by saying I'm not like the others" The court in Finn's case said, 'We'll concede that, but we have deep doubts about science'

The story of Bhagat Singh Thind, and also of Takao Ozawa – Asian immigrants who, in the 1920s, sought to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that they were white in order to gain American citizenship. Thind’s “bargain with white supremacy,” and the deeply revealing results.