One of the many problems with racial and ethnic preferences in a society with high rates of intermarriage is that sooner or later it requires someone to define and police who can claim to be a favored minority. Two items of interest in this regard that I’ve just stumbled onto this week on the web: First, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund has decided that, to be of “Hispanic heritage”—and, thus, be eligible for one of its scholarships—one must have “one parent fully Hispanic or each parent half Hispanic.” So, we’re looking not just at the student, but his or her parents, and his or her grandparents. Second, the Michigan Minority Business Development Council states, “For purposes of this program, an individual who is at least ¼ or 25% minimum (documentation to support claim of 25% would be required from applicant) of the following,” and then lists and defines various groups, broken down into great detail, by region and country. I wonder what sort of “documentation” is required? Anyway, if you like all this, you’ll hate Ward Connerly’s Proposition 54, the “Racial Privacy Initiative,” designed to get rid of the “silly little boxes.”