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Denise Gitsham

Candidate said she passed as Hispanic

Denise Gitsham is the daughter of a Chinese mother who immigrated from Taiwan and a father from Canada. She said she is “ambiguously ethnic enough to pass for almost anything” and got a Hispanic outreach job in a 2000 presidential campaign. Ref. Source 6b

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Gitsham Denise

This shows up how silly our racial profiling can be. The "Mixed" category needs to be highlighted more because everything is not only about white, black and Hispanics and "Hispanic" is not a race!