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RACIAL PRIVACY INITIATIVE CAMPAIGN
Tired of being asked? What is your race?
It seems like every time we fill out a government form, the snooping bureaucracy wants to know:
“What are you?” "What’s your ‘race’?” Why should it matter to the government?
Visit our Join ACRC page to unite with supporters to move our nation toward a color-blind society. Petitions have been printed for the Racial Privacy Initiative -- get yours today. You can help California have the chance to vote in the California November 2002 ballot to end the “silly little boxes” and preserve our racial privacy by voter initiative. Be part of the revolution to move our state and our country BEYOND RACE in the most direct way yet!
For more information please contact Diane Schachterle of the American Civil Rights Coalition at 916-444-2278 or feedback@acrc1.org (please include your name, address, and number* of petitions requested).
We need to get the petitions signed and in to the Secratary of State. Download and get those signatures.
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The Racial Privacy Initiative
1. California government must respect our right to racial privacy.
Half of the government’s questions on Census 2000 were about race, ethnicity and national origin. Like the number of toilets in our homes and how much money we make, government must accept that what “race” we associate with is a purely private matter. Government should not be asking us about such inherently private matters.
2. Race classifications have wreaked havoc throughout history.
The history of race classifications is long, storied, and horrific. From the slave trade to the Holocaust, from the Japanese American internment to South African apartheid, race classifications have always divided people along artificial, hateful lines. The time has come to put an end to these terrible race classifications.
3. Race classifications are dividing us today.
By re-emphasizing America’s checkered racial history, race classifications focus our attention on what divides us, rather than what unites us. If we are to solve the educational, social and economic problems of tomorrow, we must unite our hearts and minds pursuing common goals. As long as we keep counting by skin color, we can never become "one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
4. Race classifications don’t solve California’s social ills.
When programs to overcome hunger, illiteracy and poverty focus on race, they are at best band-aid solutions. A person’s skin color does not determine how well he can read, how much money he has, or how hard he works. Asking about a person’s race simply diverts precious time and effort away from the real solutions.
5. Race classifications are artificial.
In the past thirty years, the number of race classifications has ballooned from 5 to 63, 126 if you include ethnicity. Surely the government doesn’t believe 58 new races have emerged since 1970. The new race classifications were invented by different groups trying to get in on America’s racial spoils system.