Have you not been paying attention? As if racial set-asides weren’t already marbled throughout governments at all levels, the current administration has upped their use even more. The federal government is literally spending billions expressly trying to tell this to any and all minorities, so they can maximize their counts.
Filling in the census as ‘human’ or not at all is a little like voting for the unelectable fringe candidate: many Freepers seem to enjoy the exercise, but it has real-world consequences.
I filled in the whole number of people living at the residence only. Do you really think that if we included that we were “white” that any LESS money would go to people of other various races? I have some serious doubts about that.
Ideally, groups ID'd as "minority" would not be if their numbers are high. The only thing that I can think of is the numbers would be used to tell employers what your workforce must look like. Oh and to focus the pandering.
And how does my saying I am white change that one bit?
It doesn’t, in my view.
The money is already earmarked and will be sent. It doesn’t do me one lick of good one way or the other because I do not qualify for any of it. If it is a finite pot of money all it does is shift it around some.
While a response of white may increase white percentages it will have zero practical effect on the money spent.
I am MORE concerned with illegals being counted.