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How the US census misses people of color – and why it's so harmful [Barf Alert!]
The Guardian ^ | 27 Feb 2020 | Mona Chalabi

Posted on 02/27/2020 4:58:58 PM PST by fwdude

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I have a plan for those this year.


21 posted on 02/27/2020 5:34:50 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: fwdude

Oh what BS


22 posted on 02/27/2020 5:38:23 PM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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To: fwdude

If you can’t count them, how do you know they exist? Because the “Urban Institute” told you? So, an advocacy group that represents only black people told you and you immediately accept it as gospel?

Writers at the Guardian only do so because it confirms their worldview and helps drive their narrative of rampant discrimination. If Guardian writers didn’t have identity politics as a means to anger people and get them to vote... and read the Guardian to fuel there ever-simmering rage... their would be a lot more left-wing politicians and so-called journalists looking for other jobs... and that would be a positive development for the entire world.


23 posted on 02/27/2020 5:40:34 PM PST by PresidentFelon
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To: refermech
No...I'm considered "white"...but I'm Native.

Not here illegally either.

24 posted on 02/27/2020 5:45:33 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

In today’s society if you’re white, or pale pink, you ARE the invisible man.


25 posted on 02/27/2020 6:01:42 PM PST by Do_Tar (I wish I was kidding.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

> Go to the post office on the evening of the day the census forms are in the mail...

Heh heh. This could be fun.


26 posted on 02/27/2020 6:04:36 PM PST by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: fwdude

“non-people-of-color.”


Shouldn’t that be “people of non-color”? As a person of pallor I don’t like to be referred to as “non-people”. Makes me think I might be an actor or something.


27 posted on 02/27/2020 6:18:29 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Actually if you look at the Reference standards for Color you will be surprised. A clue, if you take pure white light and pass it through a prism what do you see?

All the colors of the spectrum

So in truth White is the presence of all colors, and black is the absence of all colors

I like you have a “ruddy” complexion and if I was white I would look like a ghost. Last thing, God put me here in this time and place with the parents I had and I did not choose to be “Caucasuian”

He did


28 posted on 02/27/2020 6:21:37 PM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: fwdude

It would seem that the impoverished would be most likely to be double-counted. They’re at a homeless shelter in New York one day and at a different homeless shelter in Jersey City a few days later.


29 posted on 02/27/2020 7:36:54 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: fwdude

Explain this, please: “ Black children are twice as likely to be undercounted as children who aren’t black.“

Are they filling out their own census forms?


30 posted on 02/27/2020 7:38:26 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I don’t think they send census forms to PO Boxes, only to physical residences.


31 posted on 02/27/2020 8:12:07 PM PST by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash)
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To: fwdude

Our American government is prohibited from knowing how many American citizens live in America. Thanks Soetoro.


32 posted on 02/27/2020 8:22:50 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: fwdude; All

Back President Trump’s effort to make certain the census form contains the citizenship question in it and no reference to race. But to the country of where the respondent is a citizen of, if not an American citizen.
TIME TO END HYPHENATING AMERICANS

One thing the Mexican Constitution has that we should consider doing.Mexico has no hyphenated Mexicans. They prohibit any reference to race when they conduct a census or issue any means of identification, Where a photo id is not available physical description is needed skin color yes but not by race but by one nationality Mexican.

By doing this Mexico has avoided “balkanizing”, creating fractional disputes in areas where a given group in one of its states is a majority or a minority. Plus it could play a significant part in shutting down the political playing off racial divisions between Americans by the Democrats..By doing this Mexico has avoided “balkanizing”, creating fractional disputes in areas where a given group in one of its states is a majority or a minority. Plus if we do it it would play a significant part in shutting the political playing off racial divisions down.


33 posted on 02/27/2020 8:40:05 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: fwdude

They sure sent a lot in the past to our PO box. That is when I noticed the trash can full of them. Maybe something has changed since then.


34 posted on 02/27/2020 8:59:16 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: yesthatjallen

That’s a bad solution, and one which the left desperately wants to implement. If they can add to the numbers, they can control apportionment and give disproportional representation to the left. In other words, that would be a quick path to socialism.


35 posted on 02/28/2020 4:40:34 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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