2010 Census

My race is "American"
By Michelle Malkin • March 9, 2010 10:47 AM
Mark Krikorian is fighting back against Census form race politics
and urging you to do the same:
Fully one-quarter of the space on this year's form is taken up with
questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and
none of the government's business (despite the New York Times'
assurances to the contrary on today's editorial page). So until we
succeed in building the needed wall of separation between race and
state, I have a proposal. Question 9 on the census form asks "What
is Person 1's race?" (and so on, for other members of the
household). My initial impulse was simply to misidentify my race so
as to throw a monkey wrench into the statistics; I had fun doing
this on the personal-information form my college required every
semester, where I was a Puerto Rican Muslim one semester, and a
Samoan Buddhist the next. But lying in this constitutionally
mandated process is wrong. Really — don't do it.
Instead, we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option —
"Some other race" — and writing in "American." It's a truthful
answer but at the same time is a way for ordinary citizens to
express their rejection of unconstitutional racial classification
schemes. In fact, "American" was the plurality ancestry selection
for respondents to the 2000 census in four states and several
hundred counties.
So remember: Question 9 — "Some other race" — "American". Pass it on.
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