Posted on 04/07/2023 8:57:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The government is presently considering modifying the Census to identify recipients for reparations. If the idea is operationalized, a possible future headline will be “2030 Census Shows America Has a Black Majority.” That would confirm that this was the U.S. government’s most brain-dead idea ever. However, with a couple of tweaks, it could be a brilliant idea.
The government’s idea (at page A6) is to ask all who check the “black” race box on the Census if they are descended from American slaves. The Census is not validated, and there’s nothing in the plan to change that. Anyone can check the boxes for “black” race and slave descendant—and now he or she has been identified as a candidate for free “reparations” money should it be paid.
It’s pretty clear that, in America, identity trumps biology, and people can change their identity on any given day, like the day the Census is completed. It’s not like this doesn’t happen all the time. The multiracial population jumped from 9 million in 2010 to 33.8 million in 2020. The number of people who identify as American Indian or Native Alaskan jumped 75% between 2010 and 2020, and in the same period, the number of Latinos identifying as white fell from 26.7 million to 12.6 million. Meanwhile, the white-identifying population fell by 31 million. With all the white supremacy and white racism blarney, who could blame anyone for not wanting to identify as white?
If some are enticed by the possibility of free money but are reluctant to identify as both black and descended from slaves because they don’t look or feel black, they should consider that, under long-standing American policy, they still could be black.
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So were the French in eastern Canada. We can’t change the past. All we can do is do better today. Tormenting people for the actions of the past isn’t the way to accomplish that.
Btw, when are they going to cancel Martin Luther King day? He wouldn’t have approved of this, either.
And finally, I’d like to know who the sick mind is behind this? Is this yet another George Soros project?
They’re promoting racial division, racial entitlement, and dependence on Democrat pollical power. Dumb isn’t how I’d describe it.
In accordance with the Constitution you are only asked to tell them how many people live in the house, full stop.
Heh.
I already knew I was a mutt (Scots, Irish, English) and my Mom’s father didn’t want to admit to the Irish, but Frainch? Amazing that it was kept from me until my father, his parents and finally his sister in ‘05 were all gone.
My sis found out from my dad’s sis on her deathbed and she told me.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find a lot more ethnicities and nationalities if I had a DNA trace done. C’est la vie! lol
I’m pretty sure I had an ancestor fight in the Collesium. Does that count?
Sacrebleu! All these years I thought I was just clumsy!
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