Posted on 03/13/2023 3:45:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
… Some Black Americans want their ancestors’ enslavement recognized in how they are identified. Some Jewish people believe their identity should be seen as its own ethnic category and not only a religion. The idea of revising categories for ethnic and racial identities, both in the census and in gathering demographic information have fueled editorials and think-tank essays as well as thousands of written comments by individuals in what is almost a Rorschach test for how Americans identify themselves.
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget is set to decide on new classifications next year and is hosting virtual town halls on the subject.
Some conservatives question the process itself, saying the overarching premise that Americans need more ethnic categories will only accelerate Balkanization.
With the revisions, the government would try to get more detailed answers on race and ethnicity by asking about country of origin.
Another proposal recommends striking from federal government forms the words “Negro” and “Far East,” now widely regarded as pejorative. The terms “majority” and “minority” would also be dropped because some officials say they fail to reflect the nation’s complex racial and ethnic diversity.
Several Black Americans, like Way, whose ancestors were enslaved, said in public comments to the OMB that they would like to be identified in a category such as American Freedmen, Foundational Black Americans or American Descendants of Slavery to distinguish themselves from Black immigrants, or even white individuals born in Africa, as well as reflecting their ancestors’ history in the U.S.
Way also recommended substituting the word “population group” for “race.”
Haskins, a retired government worker from Lansing, Michigan, suggested eliminating race categories like “white” and “Black” since they perpetuate “deeply rooted unjust socio-political constructs.”
Instead, he said people should be able to self-identify as they wish.
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Eliminate them, we are all humans, well except for DemocRATS/s
Here’s a thought:
STOP categorizing people by race and/or ethnicity.
Just stop.
well at least we won the battle over “black” and no more of this African American nonsense!
It used to be that America was the land you escaped to put the past behind you and your family. A fresh start on the right foot in a new land.
Now folks just want to dredge up a past they never knew themselves and shove it in your face. I can’t think of anything more divisive that keeps us on a path to further decline.
Caucasoid, negroid, and mongoloid.
Everything else is a mix. It’s just like the three primary colors.
Bob Marley’s dad was a white British Marine, his mom was a young Jamaican woman. Someone asked him what race he was.
He replied.... “human”.
There's no end to schemes to empty working folks wallets and bank accounts, to reward the non-productive parasites in society.
Just say you are American. That covers it.
Eliminate them
^^^^This x a million
In all honesty, we should offer the blacks who despise America reparations check of $100,000 in exchange for voiding their citizenship and moving out of the U.S. within 90 days. I’m just so sick of this crap.
After this next census, the category of WASP will be considered lower than a snake’s belly if It already isn’t.
Divide and conquer.
There is no reason to categorize people by race, ethnicity, etc. If you want equality, then treat people equally. You don’t need categories for that.
Obviously, they don’t want equality.
Eliminate all ethnic and racial categories; don’t ask the question in the first place; count persons, not categories other than biolofgical - male, female; age; period, nothing else.
No more classifications! What purpose do they serve except to divide and set one against another?
Why not simply Citizen or Non-Citizen
I stopped telling anyone that asks on a form my race. None of your business
Absolute insanity.
Man, some of these people of color, or whatever the correct term is this week, really want everyone to know they are victims. They live and breath this victim bull s**t. They should all get tattoos on their foreheads. "VICTIM". Maybe T shirts...I am a VICTIM!
Oh, the questions which I skip because I am tired of filling out the census by that point. The nice census people even call me or stop by to help me complete the form.
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