2010 U.S. Census Form Includes “Negro” Race?!?

Date: March 26th, 2010  Category: People, Things  Tags: 2010 census  [ 3 ]

It’s 2010 and we have a black president in office for the first time in our nations history. How far we’ve come, right? Well, that’s what I thought until I opened my census form (click thumbnail image for larger view) a couple days ago. As I filled it out I finally got down to the “race section” where I chose “white”. But, as I scanned further down the form I saw “Black, African Am., or Negro”. WTF?!?

I mean, come on people. This is ridiculous. Who created/approved this? Oh, and why wasn’t “white” expanded to include things like “honky” or “cracker” etc.? Only fair…

I guess today the census people apologized for it. Check out the video interview with the U.S. Census Director for more info (haven’t watched it yet).

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