'Negro' Race Choice On Census Form Sparks Outrage
We read:
"A fiery blast from the past is conjuring controversy in the new millennium. The word "negro" is now featured on an official U.S. document and now many are questioning if the Census Bureau is being insensitive.
It's a word that many African Americans associate with segregation, so imagine how shocked many were to see it on the 2010 U.S. census form.
"The fact that it's 2010 and they're still putting 'negro,' I am a little offended," said Secaucus resident Dawud Ingram.
Question #9 on the this year's census asks about your race. One of the boxes you can choose is "black," "African American," or "negro," all placed next to the same box. Ingram said it's not a word he uses to identify neither himself nor anybody else.
"African Americans haven't been going by the term 'negro' for decades now. It's really confusing," he said.
But census officials disagree, saying they found some older African Americans identify themselves that way and they're trying to be inclusive. In a statement, they said: "Results from the census in 2000 showed that a number of respondents provided a write-in response of 'negro' when answering the question on race."
In fact, Congress approved the form more than a year ago. Newark resident Jabbar Ali can't believe it. "I thought it was something we left behind a long time ago – the word 'negro,'" said Ali.
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14 comments:
Huh? So I don't refer to myself (or anyone else) as 'anglo-saxon' or 'white'. Does that mean that the word should never appear on a form seeking my ethnicity?
The word is a perfectly accurate and legitimate word. It is entirely possible to be negro without being African-American - just look at President Obama. He is certainly not African-American the way most people understand it - but he is (half) black or negro.
Is "Honky" on the census form?
Hope so cause that's what I am and proud of it.
So there should be a move afoot to change the name of the United Negro College Fund?
The biggest mistake of the Civil Rights movement was not adopting the now infamous "N"-word as a badge of pride and honor since it was under that name that their forebears performed the hard labor and endured.
By allowing that word to remain a tool to be used against them they have made reconciliation with the past more difficult and now they are working to expand that mistake.
"The biggest mistake of the Civil Rights movement was not adopting the now infamous "N"-word as a badge of pride and honor…"
While it may not have been adopted as such by the Civil Rights Movement, it does seem have been adopted by blacks in general.
At this point it seems to be nothing more than a weapon of the Professional Victims brigade.
"Ingram said it's not a word he uses to identify neither himself nor anybody else"
Well, he's right. So lets use the word they use. Nigga. And doesn't adding the term "African American" make the form invalid, since none of these people have ever been anywhere near Africa?
Whenever professional whiners and "victims" are given another opportunity to complain, they will, because they know they'll get something out of it.
WORD OF THE DAY
OFFENDED, n.
The default condition of perpetual victims who respond, reflexively, by begging Big Nanny State Daddy to, coercively, shield them from things that they don't want to see, hear, or read.
Doe no one know that the word comes from the Spanish word Negros which translates to black in english.
In anthropology "negro" and "negroid" are scientific terms, unless PC has now invaded that subject too.
Euro-American is not a choice on the form. Where can I sue?
Actually, the word nigger comes from the old South and was never intended to be a racial slur. Old Southern plantation owners refered to blacks as negros. But because of their drawl, it would came out as nigras. Over time, the word morphed into niggers as it moved north.
Mark in Arizona said, "Euro-American is not a choice on the form. Where can I sue?"
I agree 100%.
Problem is that most Blacks are NOT "African-American", they are "American". Why the hell can't anyone accept that?
I thought the Obama Administration was supposed to be so color-blind. Looks like things have not changed one bit.
Why does the census have to ask anyone's ethnic origin. Hell, we are all Americans, not "african-americans", "mexican-americans", or "asian-americans". I am sick and tired of this divisive labeling promoted by liberals to "help" minorities. It just divides us as a nation and deters assimilation which would be much more beneficial to minorities than the "help" offered by the government.
"Dawud Ingram"?!? What the f*ck kind of name is "Dawud"?
What the f*ck kind of name is Anonymous?
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