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Another thing about these numbers is that Black-Americans and Hispanic numbers also represent two different categories. Black-Americans are in a racial category. Hispanics are in a cultural category. If you look at things racially then Black-Americans would still be the second largest racial group in America behind white-Americans.
#1. Racial categories are government imposed. The fact is there is no such thing as a race.
This is only done to categorize a group of people in order to keep tabs on them.
As more "so called" "black" people delve into their ancestry and find that they are a patchwork of ethnicities you will see less of them identifying as only one ethnicity. All people are free today to check more than one box on the census form. Many check the box "other". If enough people check all the boxes the less we need to keep tabs on the ridiculous category of "race" and simply deal with PEOPLE and what ISSUES they have from a SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC perspective. Categories that matter far more than so-called "race".
It's a shame that the government can't see that by keeping tabs on "race" we have divided an entire nation into tribes. Tribes which could have been eradicated long ago. In 2010 I'm sick of the tribes of race. It's time to get beyond the baggage of the past so we can all come equally into the 21st century.
According to WikiPedia, it says that the USA will see more people of European and Asian decent while Black Americans are expected to decline.
What do you think of that? Does that mean more discrimination against black people in the future?
The percentage of Black Americans as total of the population of the United States has fluctuated between 12% to 14% for the last 20 years. There are actually MORE Black Americans now than there were 20 years ago.
I'd suggest you get more than one source of data before drawing conclusion on an issue like this.
Also discrimination of a population is not just based on the size of a population. There are a myriad of historical, social, economic, and political reasons why Black Americans face discrimination. Population is just one component as to why people are discriminated against. The entire reason discrimination exists is that one group finds it socially, politically, and economically advantageous to discriminate against another group. The best way to end discrimination is to make discrimination socially, politically and economically unattractive to discriminate against a particular group.
#1. Racial categories are government imposed. The fact is there is no such thing as a race.
This is only done to categorize a group of people in order to keep tabs on them.
As more "so called" "black" people delve into their ancestry and find that they are a patchwork of ethnicities you will see less of them identifying as only one ethnicity.
Most African Americans know they are quite mixed. My father is a dark-skinned African American, but his ancestry is German, English and many other European groups as well as African. My mother is a very mixed Cuban.
On the Census I said I was black racially and of Hispanic ethnicity. I still personally identify myself as black or African American because that is my cultural background.
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All people are free today to check more than one box on the census form. Many check the box "other". If enough people check all the boxes the less we need to keep tabs on the ridiculous category of "race" and simply deal with PEOPLE and what ISSUES they have from a SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC perspective. Categories that matter far more than so-called "race".
It's a shame that the government can't see that by keeping tabs on "race" we have divided an entire nation into tribes. Tribes which could have been eradicated long ago. In 2010 I'm sick of the tribes of race. It's time to get beyond the baggage of the past so we can all come equally into the 21st century.
If there was no goverment policy of racial classification, do you think that we all would just be simply considered American? For some reason I don't think so.
If there was no goverment policy of racial classification, do you think that we all would just be simply considered American? For some reason I don't think so.
It would take time for people to get used to the fact that we don't consider "race" as a stigma but I believe it can happen.
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