OFFICIAL POLITICAL CARTOONS/PIC FREAD.

[Elder Iptuous]

why did they feel the need to put 'Black, African Am., or Negro'?
did they think this would offend less, rather than more?
do they have some subtle distinctions that i am unaware of?

also, aren't they are conflating ethnicity and race?

[Jasper]

Who's the asshole that put that in there? 

[Remington]

[Jasper]

That's rich.

[Triple Zero]

goddamn that's a fucking horror scarecrow smile.

[Cain]

I actually have an ebook of Mitt Romney's...er, hagiography to Bush II-era sociopathic disregard for the lives of others.  It's really that bad.

[Jenne]

why did they feel the need to put 'Black, African Am., or Negro'?
did they think this would offend less, rather than more?
do they have some subtle distinctions that i am unaware of?

also, aren't they are conflating ethnicity and race?

Who's the asshole that put that in there? 

I heard this on NPR: it was because older African-Americans LIKED the term and wouldn't check "Black" or "African-American."  They wanted the term "Negro" put on there and requested it for the 2010 Census.  No troll.

[Triple Zero]

now is the time to petition for "pastyface cheesehead" !!

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

I say we push for "honky" to be added.

[Jenne]

Well, there PACs and NGOs, etc. that use "Negro" in their title--to wit, "The United Negro College Fund," etc. (www.uncf.org) 

Anyway, here's an article on it:
http://wcbstv.com/national/negro.census.form.2.1409469.html

Question #9 on the this year's census asks about your race. One of the boxes you can choose is "black," "African American," or "negro," all placed next to the same box. Ingram said it's not a word he uses to identify neither himself nor anybody else.

"African Americans haven't been going by the term 'negro' for decades now. It's really confusing," he said.

But census officials disagree, saying they found some older African Americans identify themselves that way and they're trying to be inclusive. In a statement, they said: "Results from the census in 2000 showed that a number of respondents provided a write-in response of 'negro' when answering the question on race."

In fact, Congress approved the form more than a year ago.

...language is a strange, beautiful and fucking frustrating animal.

[Cramulus]

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What the shit is he even trying to SAY with that sign?

[Jenne]

Something racist and supposed to be "old skool" Bush Sr. with "Voodoo Economics," but it hits WAY wide of the mark.

[Jasper]

Who are these people?  How did they get to the capital?

[Freeky]

Who are these people?  How did they get to the capital?

A more pressing question, I think, is how they survived to be adults when they are CLEARLY too stupid to live.

ETA DISCLAIMER: This isn't a dig at ECH and what was brought up in Nigel's thread. I really meant what I said. Please to not shit-fling.