Use of 'Negro' on 2010 Census Form Upsets Modern-Day SensibilitiesLovely outreach to the "negro" community! Sheeeesh!! I wonder why they didn't include "colored" ...
The U.S. Census has shocked the senses for many who want to know why the descriptor, "Negro," is being used in the 2010 questionnaire, the New York Daily News reported.
The term is included under Question No. 9 of the 2010 census questionnaire, which was approved by Congress over a year ago.
The question, which asks about race, provides the following answer choice: "Black, African Am., or Negro."
The word "Negro," referring to individuals of black African descent, represents to many a low moment in U.S. history. Considered a racial slur by leaders of the civil rights movement, the term has since been abandoned for its association with slavery and segregation.
But the Census Bureau has defended its decision to include the word, saying older generations of African Americans often identify themselves as "Negroes," according to the newspaper.
"Many older African Americans identified themselves that way, and many still do," Census Bureau spokesman Jack Martin told the newspaper. "Those who identify themselves as Negroes need to be included."
Click here to read more on this story from the New York Daily News.
There's been some prior "developments" in the run-up to the census. From Michelle Malkin:
• More census propagandizing in the schools: $13 billion kiddie campaignLooks like the fun is just beginning, folks!
• The Census boondoggle: $340 million ad campaign: Otherwise known as the tax-subsidized National Democrat Future Voter Outreach Drive
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Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races.
Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.”
How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be?
Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”.
It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops.
Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”.
Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society.
If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself.
I'd really like to know how Uncle Sam wants adopted persons will sealed identities to answer the race question. Does the U.S. Government want us to lie or does it expect us to be psychic?
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