US Census Angers the Negro Community
Hey US Census- Only THEY can use that word.
From WCBS here:
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.
Obama is going to check both the black and white box because since 1930, there is no checkbox for “mulatto.”
Ummm…what about the United Negro College Fund?
They oughta go ream them a new one as well.
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 challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed.
They hang census questionaires on doors? I thought they were mailed.
maybe the reason you were able to be adopted in the first place, was that the birth parents were willing to allow it because the records were sealed.
Now, imagine that the birth parents refused to allow adoption, because the records were NOT sealed.
Its like penalizing a firearm owner for getting psychological counseling when his wife dies, because he is sad. You want him to get counseling, so he is better, but be avoids it, so you dont suspend his gun license, for being “mentally incompetent” for having had counseling.