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Census to replace "Negro" with "black" or "African-American"
http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/national/census_to_replace_negro_with_black_O6jKTQuQbCVXKytj58H9JP#axzz2LvdaocFU ^ | February 25, 2013

Posted on 02/25/2013 5:06:13 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

WASHINGTON — After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word "Negro" to describe black Americans in surveys.

Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels "black" or "African-American".

The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households, Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, said in an interview.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blacks; census; negro
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To: TexasFreeper2009

**what the heck do you call a black that isn’t American?**

Well, a few years back a MSM news caster called a visiting black dignitary from AFRICA an African American.


81 posted on 02/25/2013 9:21:05 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the POTEET THEATRE in OKC! See our murals before they are painted over!)
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To: piasa
The three-fifths compromise picked up on an idea already used under the Confederation to apportion taxes among the states. They recognized that slaves were not as productive as free laborers so estimated their output at 60% of a free person's.

Look at the text of the Constitution: "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons." (Article I, Sec. 2)

82 posted on 02/25/2013 9:24:23 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: luvbach1
Nah, couldn't be!


83 posted on 02/25/2013 9:32:30 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (THE SOUND OF MUSIC at the POTEET THEATRE in OKC! See our murals before they are painted over!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

whoo-hoo. African-American designation now lets former Afrikaners claim minority status.

idiots.


84 posted on 02/25/2013 10:43:08 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: laweeks

Black is ridiculous, as they are no more black than I am white.
Pathetic that we’re still counting along racial lines.


Exactly many “blacks” are no blacker than they are white..
Like... you know... OBAMA.. and many many others..


85 posted on 02/25/2013 11:11:51 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe

We have family friends where the wife is obviously mostly black, but her husband is as white, freckled and green-eyed as I am, but identifies himself as black. That has always mystified me. Maybe his gr-gr-grandmother was black, but WHY should he be called black if he is mostly white?

I also had a friend who was mostly black but his family was a rainbow of colors due to intermarriages. You would not believe his sisters and brothers were his siblings! Get down into the next generation and it was mind-boggling, and yet, they were all considered black. This whole racial thing just drives me nuts!


86 posted on 02/26/2013 4:54:34 AM PST by MomofMarine
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To: ConservativeStatement
Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels "black" or "African-American".

Lies, lies and more damned lies.

Negro has been used because it's ACTUALLY one of the 5 races - Mongoloid, Caucasoid, Australoid, Negroid and Capoid.

Africa is either a continent or a nationality, but it is not a 'race', just like *black* or *white* are not 'races'...they're designations of colors.

87 posted on 02/26/2013 5:35:06 AM PST by MamaTexan (To follow Original Constitutional Intent, one MUST acknowledge the Right of Secession)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Good point. It is idiotic and fits in nicely with the dumbing down of humans. Everyone is equal except select minorities who need special rights and favors all throughout their lives in order to be equal


88 posted on 02/26/2013 6:01:52 AM PST by winodog (Thank you Jesus for the calm in my life)
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To: MomofMarine

This whole racial thing just drives me nuts!


If you’re light complected but call yourself black..
YOU ARE RACE BAITING.. probably, most likely a racist..

The black experience has nothing to be proud of.. NOTHING..
No black man or woman has accomplished positive anything just for being black..

Mandela is communist hack.. the father of the sewer in South Africa..
The only worthy black people have assumed western European customs..

Black American culture is poisonous... TOXIC...
Degrading literally everything it touches..
Should NOT BE SO.... but it is...


89 posted on 02/26/2013 10:17:28 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: VR-21

I don’t remember that, but maybe there are a few micks, wops, dagoes, wasps, and spicks around here that do.


90 posted on 02/26/2013 11:00:32 AM PST by Jay Redhawk (Zombies are just intelligent, good looking democrats.)
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To: Jay Redhawk

Sorry, I forgot to include all you kikes, and nips out there. I will ask my squaw if she can think of any others I unintentionally left out.


91 posted on 02/26/2013 11:07:12 AM PST by Jay Redhawk (Zombies are just intelligent, good looking democrats.)
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To: Jay Redhawk

I guess you didn’t see my post (55). At the time it wasn’t used as a racial slur. I apologize that I gave the impression that I approve of insulting ethnic groups other than mine. My point was merely a comment about the fact that the correct (PC) references changed quite. Please, lighten-up.


92 posted on 02/26/2013 11:50:20 AM PST by VR-21
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To: VR-21
I am sorry I did not make it clear that I ridiculing the political correctness and over sensitivity people have over these types of words. I was not meaning to criticize you. In my life I have been called practically everything, but then only time I ever got upset was when a school bus driver called my five year old son a “kike.” Other than that I have always considered these terms to be ridiculous. On my census I marked “other” and wrote in American, which is what I think most people should do. I apologize for getting you upset. Sometimes I forget not everyone gets my sense of humor. When I worked construction my personality was sometimes described by my co-workers as being “a half-bubble off level.”
93 posted on 02/26/2013 12:14:45 PM PST by Jay Redhawk (Zombies are just intelligent, good looking democrats.)
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To: Jay Redhawk

I’m not upset Jay, but I do thank you for the clarification. In all honesty, I knew I had could have done a better job of making clear the reason for my original post immediately after I sent it, and knowing how sensitive people can be about this stuff I half expected to get called on it. Again, thanks big time for your reply. It took a load off. Take care.


94 posted on 02/26/2013 12:29:37 PM PST by VR-21
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