How America's Elite Singles Out One Group

Could you provide some more information about the context where you saw this?  What website were you using, were you accessing it in a government facility, were you required to enter data about your ethnicity or could you opt out, etc.  It seems to me that this reflects the US Census Bureau method of tracking ethnicity, which attempts to recognize both the ethnic background and the Latin American origin of Latino individuals/families/communities in the United States.  After all, the "Hispanic/Latino" category must reflect reality and encompass people with Native American, European, African, Jewish, Asian and mixed ancestry, yet whose national/cultural origins are within Latin America and (I believe) parts of the Caribbean.  So from a demographic perspective, being Latino is a relatively unique situation.  Of course the US Census method of recording ethnicity is not perfect, and there are many people who are dissatisfied with it.  However, consider that just a few years ago the Census did not allow people to accurately report mixed ethnic backgrounds: if an individual had one parent who was white and one who was black, they would have to just choose one category or the other.  Frankly, if you're concerned about institutional racism in the US, the "justice" system -- with its disproportionate rates of convictions and sentencing for black and Latino defendants -- would be a better place to focus.