Census usage/racial terms

[Tom Zurinskas]

Wilson, I'll stand by you on that one.  You're an American and you can speak freely and have free choice.  Color you red, white, and blue.

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Wilson Gray
> Subject: Re: Census usage/racial terms
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> I prefer the term that appears on my birth certificate:
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> Race of father : Colored
> Race of Mother: Colored
> Race of Child : Colored
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> @Ron: Surely, you jest! You can't really believe that _race_ is
> well-defined WRT humanity.
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> Somehow, I find it nothing less than amazing that people worry over
> the mote of terminology as they ignore the beam of racism.
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> -Wilson
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> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Walsh, Barclay wrote:
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>> Sender: American Dialect Society
>> Poster: "Walsh, Barclay"
>> Subject: Re: Census usage/racial terms
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>> ADS:
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>> Pew Research Center has a new 2010 Census site which includes the followin=
>> g article. May be of interest in light of the on-going discussion:
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>> Race and the Census: The "Negro" Controversy
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>> January 21, 2010
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>> The topic of racial identification on census forms has a long, fascinating =
>> history, which has generated fr=
>> esh debate as the 2010 Census begins. Why, some ask, does the form include =
>> the word "Negro," along with "black" and "African American," among the opti=
>> ons that Americans can choose for their self-identification? Isn't that ter=
>> m out of date?
>> As you can see from the review that follows here, racial terms have come i=
>> n and out of favor from one decade to the next. There was a similar debate =
>> about "Negro" in the 2000 Census, as there have been about other race terms=
>> in previous census years.
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>> http://census.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/race-and-the-census-the-%e2%80%9cneg=
>> ro%e2%80%9d-controversy
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>>
>> Barclay Walsh
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>> New York Times DC research
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> --
> -Wilson
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