Milestone renews attention on question of Hispanic ethnicity

Monday, June 30, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Jean-Robert Lafortune considers himself Latino, but to the government he is not Hispanic. He checked off black as his race on his census form, but ask him directly and he will call himself Afro-Caribbean.

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