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As long as they keep tracking and producing "broken down by race" we'll never overcome this.
When it comes to forms and race, I check "other" and write in American.
I get raised eyebrows, a chuckle or two but no one has ever asked me to change it.
I'm doing my part to obliterate defining us by the color of our skin.
So now a Negro isn't a Negro? Political correctness gone insane. Offensive? Good Lord everything is offensive today.
Black/African Americans haven't been Negros for some forty years. It is an archaic term that apparently only some neanderthal white folks want to cling to. By your thinking the census should keep the term celestials to describe Asians, or redmen for Native Americans.
Black/African Americans haven't been Negros for some forty years. It is an archaic term that apparently only some neanderthal white folks want to cling to. By your thinking the census should keep the term celestials to describe Asians, or redmen for Native Americans.
"African-American" is a foolish term. Not all Americans from Africa are black, and not all black Americans are from Africa.
"African-American" is a foolish term. Not all Americans from Africa are black, and not all black Americans are from Africa.
Foolish or not, we like it (most of us) and we're gonna keep using it.
When you wake up black one morning, then I'll worry about your opinion on the matter.
Til then, stop rehashing matters that have already been decided.
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