Confusion, even at the highest level

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/31/2014 09:20 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Maybe just variation rather than confusion, like 
>"Barack Obama said today...   The President went 
>on to argue
"  (Assuming that the sets denoted 
>by "African-Americans" and "Blacks" are 
>identical; otherwise, it is pretty confusing 
>without further clarification of whether the 
>latter category includes immigrants from 
>Vancouver, say, and/or the former includes white 
>South Africans, both of which I strongly doubt.)

Or are the official names of the "racial" 
classifications n the Seattle citations and the 
U.S. census different?  (Possibly, but probably not an excuse for the writer.)

Joel


>LH
>
>
>On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:46 PM, Randy Alexander wrote:
>
> > USA Today has this:
> >
> > "According to a Seattle Police Department report
> > 
> <http://www.seattle.gov/police/publications/special/Public_Possession_of_Legal_Marijuana.pdf>,
> > more than 36% of the 82 citations were to African-Americans. Blacks make up
> > 8% of Seattle's population, according to the 2010 Census
> > <http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5363000.html>."
> >
> > 
> http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/31/seattle-police-officer-marijuana-enforcement/13415119/
> >
> > Randy

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