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<text id=89TT2298>
<title>
Sep. 04, 1989: American Notes:Race
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Sep. 04, 1989 Rock Rolls On:Rolling Stones
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 17
American Notes
RACE
No Place For Mankind
</hdr><body>
<p> Mahin Root's father is white; her mother is black. So when
the 14-year-old girl tried to register this year as a junior at
Page High School in Greensboro, N.C., she faced a problem: a
form that asked her to specify her race. Instead of filling in
the blank, she left the question unanswered. School officials
politely suggested that she make a choice, since the U.S.
Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights requires all
public school systems to submit racial data on their students.
Mahin, who had attended private schools since moving to
Greensboro in 1985, just as politely declined. She and her
parents, both born in the U.S., follow the Bahai religious
faith. Explained her mother Brenda Mahin: "Our family believes
very strongly in the oneness of mankind. There is but one race
-- the human race."
</p>
<p> That satisfied school officials, who let Mahin enroll, but
not the Washington bureaucrats. They advised Greensboro schools
attorney William Caffrey that Mahin should be racially
classified by using a "rule of reason" or an "eyeball" test.
Caffrey did not consider that helpful. Finally he was told that
the Education Department is trying to develop a policy on how to
count children of interracial marriages. School officials are
now waiting for Washington to apply its own rule of reason.
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</body></article>
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