As long as Yellowman’s designation unchanged we’ll be OK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkXeyNOBNeo
Anyone noticed a change in the Form 4473? I bought a new rifle last week and checked the space `White’ where they require you to categorize yourself.
The clerk pointed out to me, “You need to check whether or not you are `Non-Hispanic’.”
I pointed out to her I had already done that: “See, I checked `white’?” Even though I’m also Irish, a little Cherokee and a numismatist, charismatic and slightly deaf from firing too many guns without hearing-protection as a lad.
Sure enough there’s a category—a hoop I don’t recall ever having to jump through—requiring an affirmative reply that you are white, but not Latino, Chicano, La Raza, Mestizo—or whatever—even if you checked another designation.
So I asked her if I could write in “Shaved Ape.”
She said `No,’ and asked me to move along since the place was packed and busy.
Not to hi-jack your thread, but this has been griping me: I won’t be happy until we—whatever color we are—can walk into a gun shop, pick out a gun, pay over the money and walk out, skipping all the government bollocks. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, Fineswine you Nazi she-*****.
Signed, myself, a non-violent, sovereign citizen rapidly running out of chewing gum.
My grandmother was Dutch...
No legitimate reason exists for identifying races and ethnicities -- but plenty of illegitimate reasons are around: gerrymandering of electoral districts; encouraging claims of "victimization"; racial considerations when drawing public school attendance zones; and more.
What if we stopped? What if the Federal Government simply stopped keeping records of color, race, and ethnic origin? Wouldn't we take a big step away from racial discrimination if we just stopped keeping records of race?
Also, keep in mind that there's a practical impediment to keeping records of race: the increasing population of people of mixed race. President Obama, Tiger Woods, and many others fall into this category. I remember my late grandmother, when she would see a mixed-race couple, saying with some disdain that "some day we'll all be café au lait." I tend to agree with her conclusion, but not her disdain.
So, is a person who is part "black," part "white," part Latino, and part Asian considered a "minority" for purposes of drawing school zones and Congressional Districts? What about "Native Americans"? What about Muslims -- Sunnis, Shi'ites, Caucasian or "black" converts? Are they entitled to some sort of protected status, or consideration when electoral boundaries are drawn?
Stop the madness. Just stop. No good can come from the government taking note of race or ethnicity.
Will Cablanasian be a choice?
Uh, isn’t “negro” Spanish or Latin for “black”? What’s the difference?
How about “Natural Born Democrats”.
I just received my warning letter that I got picked. Should I fill it out? Or start the woodstove with it?
...Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households....
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Don’t even think about sending one here. We are not required by the Constitution to answer that nonsense.
if someone is only African (or Indonesian) and not American,
then what box would he check?
just supposin...
whoo-hoo. African-American designation now lets former Afrikaners claim minority status.
idiots.
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.