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I suspect Benfey feels that her early death by suicide was somehow ordained, and has something to do with her status as a poet.
Jewish suffering, though, is divinely ordained.
An ordained Baptist minister, he adores sermonizing about his seriousness of purpose.
For a "multiracial" box would be an admission that the five points of our modern-day "ethno-racial pentagon" (black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Native American) are not fixed or divinely ordained, but fickle and all too man-made.
But over the last generation, high-achieving Asian-Americans have been anointed "honorary" whites, usually so ordained by conservatives wary of black militancy.