PD.com: The culmination of the 'Ted Stevens Plan'
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?
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.
Who are these people? How did they get to the capital?
