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Randall Flagg
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Wed Jan-06-10 10:04 PM Original message |
"Negro" on the 2010 Census (Rachel Maddow) |
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MadMaddie
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Wed Jan-06-10 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. This was a bad decision |
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Gormy Cuss
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Wed Jan-06-10 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
2. The likely reason it's still listed is that in testing of the forms Census found sufficient people |
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Randall Flagg
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Wed Jan-06-10 10:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. (Serious question) Would one be that differential to identifying themselves |
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Gormy Cuss
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Wed Jan-06-10 11:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. When designing Race/Ethnic origin questions, if you don't include terms that most people use |
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Captain Hilts
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Thu Jan-07-10 10:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
20. The term 'Caucasion' has always confused the shit out of me because folks from the Caucuses... |
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Captain Hilts
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Wed Jan-06-10 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
4. There are now a lot of recent 'Africans' in the US. So, African-American has become confusing. nt |
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Kahuna
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Thu Jan-07-10 07:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. I heard Nora O;Donnell refer to the undie-bomber as an African-American.. |
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Captain Hilts
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Thu Jan-07-10 10:19 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. He's African, but also black. But not an African-American. Theresa Heinz Kerry is African... |
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ProgressiveProfessor
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Thu Jan-07-10 01:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Key pont there are many of us with African ancestry that are not Aftrican-American |
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shawcomm
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Thu Jan-07-10 08:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. As in |
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marshall
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Thu Jan-07-10 10:09 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Didn't Teresa point out she is hyphenless? |
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HipChick
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Thu Jan-07-10 09:34 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Africans like Charlize Theron? |
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Captain Hilts
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Thu Jan-07-10 10:16 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. It's confusing. Here in DC there are a lot of recent immigrants from Africa... |
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shraby
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Wed Jan-06-10 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. What is the object of categorizing people? Aren't we all |
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Gormy Cuss
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Thu Jan-07-10 12:01 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. One of the justifications for asking race/ethnicity is to determine if some populations |
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apocalypsehow
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Thu Jan-07-10 12:32 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. There will *always* be a need to "collect the data." For any number of legitimate reasons. |
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Gormy Cuss
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Thu Jan-07-10 03:10 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. What a strange post. |
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Tx4obama
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Thu Jan-07-10 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. Something that Rachel did NOT mention... |
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Captain Hilts
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Thu Jan-07-10 10:18 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Yes. 'Nego' is descriptive, with no cultural/geographic assumptions. nt |
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Tx4obama
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Thu Jan-07-10 08:13 AM Response to Original message |
13. Other... |
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Captain Hilts
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Thu Jan-07-10 10:25 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Interesting stuff. Some Jews see that as a race and don't like being considered |
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