Posted on 02/25/2013 5:06:13 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
WASHINGTON — After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in surveys.
Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels "black" or "African-American".
The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households, Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, said in an interview.
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My mother was calling black people Afro Americans up until a couple of years ago. And not one of her black coworkers ever corrected her in the 20 years she worked with them. I told her it had changed to AA and she was dumbfounded. She asked when they changed and I said, “Oh about 30 years ago.” It was the first time in my lifetime I had seen her speechless.
How about we don’t have a racial identification on anything. What’s the point? We don’t need it and most people are more than one race anyway. (DNAlly speaking)
I have a friend from Iowa, a farm boy, whom I call Agro-American.
There is no guarantee that the label "African-American" can guarantee a skin color, just sayin'.
So, which box will Obama check, considering this ethnic heritage?
You may apply the same rule to AA's etc.
Yoots or Yutes...whichever is more comfy (comfier?).
That’s why I refuse to answer that question. And if they’re stupid enough to think a German surname is anything but Caucasian, then screw ‘em.
Didn’t the term negro exist during the slave era, or was it always N****r in those days?
Their ancestors were, just as American blacks' ancestors were.
I agree with you, however many black families have European surnames.
As long as Yellowman’s designation unchanged we’ll be OK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkXeyNOBNeo
I dont know, my kids are all black and they have irish-german surnames. And first names that are middle english.
Lets just say most people dont expect them to be them.
So is colored still OK as in NAACP, or as Rush puts it, the NAALCP?
I believe they got those names from there slave owners.
Anyone noticed a change in the Form 4473? I bought a new rifle last week and checked the space `White’ where they require you to categorize yourself.
The clerk pointed out to me, “You need to check whether or not you are `Non-Hispanic’.”
I pointed out to her I had already done that: “See, I checked `white’?” Even though I’m also Irish, a little Cherokee and a numismatist, charismatic and slightly deaf from firing too many guns without hearing-protection as a lad.
Sure enough there’s a category—a hoop I don’t recall ever having to jump through—requiring an affirmative reply that you are white, but not Latino, Chicano, La Raza, Mestizo—or whatever—even if you checked another designation.
So I asked her if I could write in “Shaved Ape.”
She said `No,’ and asked me to move along since the place was packed and busy.
Not to hi-jack your thread, but this has been griping me: I won’t be happy until we—whatever color we are—can walk into a gun shop, pick out a gun, pay over the money and walk out, skipping all the government bollocks. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, Fineswine you Nazi she-*****.
Signed, myself, a non-violent, sovereign citizen rapidly running out of chewing gum.
I learn something new everyday.
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