¿Why is color on the U.S. Census?

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►Connect http://communityvillage.us
►Click to tweet http://clicktotweet.com/w9SRQ
►NYTimes article about Hispanic Latino Mexicas and the census http://www.scoop.it/t/mixed-american-life/p/982955125/for-many-latinos-race-i...
►FAQ: http://www.projectrace.com/faqs
►There is one human species and an infinite variety of human clines, phenotypes, genotypes, haplotypes, and haplogroups. The term 'race' serves to divide us.
►Terminology Clarifications: "Race" Culture Ethnicity and scientific words http://getglennrobinson.blogspot.com/2011/07/confused-on-terminology-of-race-...
►Ten things you should know about "race":
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-x.htm
►Race Exhibit http://ajahannah.blogspot.com/2011/07/smithsonians-race-exhibit-eye-opening.html
►Steven Riley of Mixed Race Studies on the Census question 9
http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?page_id=6079
►The 'race' check boxes are not derived from physical science, but from political science with a historically underlying ideology of exclusion.
►The "race" question on different country's censuses. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/29/race-and-censuses-from-around...
Scholarly articles on the "race" question on the census.
http://www.google.com/search?q=census+site%3Amixedracestudies.org
►When the human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, Bill Clinton, Craig Venter, and Francis Collins took the stage and pronounced that "The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis." http://radiolab.org/2008/dec/15/
►In 1997, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists urged the American government to phase out the use of race as a data category and to substitute ethnic categories instead. Geneticists studying DNA ... were also concluding that race as a biological category made no sense. --Nell Irvin Painter
►Counting by Race http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/us/10count.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3
►Census race data has been used against us. (Has the data ever benefited us?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLaNDV93RsU&t=3m28s
►Here is text from U.S. law before 1967 "2. It shall be a felony for any person wilfully or knowingly to make a registration certificate false as to color or race." http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/?p=14135
►What makes us different colors http://ireneeonline.com/skin_color_test.htm
►People frustrated with the U.S. Census
Baratunde http://youtube.com/watch?v=n7KbHjVYBKI
Renetrice http://youtube.com/watch?v=11SKFKiHDQw
Eva Vega http://youtube.com/watch?v=DiQDXOTP8BI
Jerry http://youtube.com/watch?v=RsDhkPym01k
Kevin http://youtube.com/watch?v=7AFTfOaceO8
NeKid29 http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tu8fxXy2ea8
Federaljacktube2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=5maAiLZ5H4c&NR
Multiracial Identity http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=109250&a...
►Help us help you. What's your "race"?
http://www.scoop.it/t/communityvillage/p/202448922/community-village-help-us-...
►My blog about "What Makes Us Who We Are"
http://getglennrobinson.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-makes-us-who-we-are.html
►"Race" is a bad idea whose time has come and gone. It does not belong in statistics that appear with the stamp of approval of the government of the United States.
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Constitution_Issues/one_drop_rule.htm
►http://www.eugenics-watch.com
►Colorism http://integratedmemoirs.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/learning-about-colorism/
►Pledge to end racial classification of humans http://endrace.wordpress.com/tag/end-race-now
►http://www.racetranscenders.com

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[AreitoWatter]

Maybe Wasicun (the U.S. Govt.) is preparing for the possibility of instituting something kin to Apartheid? :(

[OfficialGetGln]

@AreitoWatter Jim Crow segregation was all too real in the U.S., but after Brown vs Board of Education the U.S. no longer allows enforced segregation in pubic schools; however there is still de facto school segregation because of the massive housing segregation that still exists. Schools tally by race to measure results and raise the bar for all w/ the No Child Left Behind law, and police tally by race to track discrimination in policing; still trying to figure out why the census tracks 'race'.

[indibabs122275]

I taught my kids that color is nothing. As my other part of my comment says, my license in science, I too have always explained it to the kids in a scientific way. God bless you and your beautiful girl. You have a good heart. The world needs more people like this.

Barbara

[OfficialGetGln]

@indibabs122275 Like they say: "Color is only skin deep". I've recently learned the terms haplogroup, haplotype, phenotype, and cline. All of these are terms we can use instead of the antiquated term "race". 

[indibabs122275]

God bless you. It is so nice to see a white person doing this video. I am black and hispanic mixed. I live in Indiana , good ol kkk capital. Being a female added to what I get. I am now 35 but I got my associates in clinical lab science at age 24. I am now a fully licensed clinical lab scientist, and its amazing the difference in treatment I get based off of sight. I have also had patients tell me that they would not let me collect blood from them when I was a phlebot. before I got my license.

[OfficialGetGln]

@indibabs122275 Thank you Barbara. There are some other European-American people working for the cause as well, like this bunch at Multicultural Familia: Chantilly Patiño, Jennifer Saleem, Jen Marshall Duncan, Donna Sparrow. There is also A.D. Powell, the author of “Passing” For Who You Really Are.

[FluffyPuff16]

I've always sort of thought of 'races' as sort of like breeds. like how animals have breeds. because really, humans are just intelligent animals, right?

But at the same time, being that we are the most intelligent, i should think that we would realize that we're all the same creature, and not care about the breeds. :/

[SFCuts]

I never questioned this things but this a really a good discussion!

[DaBigSun]

In Brazil they have over 137 racial categories however there's only 5 categories in the Brazilian census. The five categories in the Brazil Census are Brancos (White), Pretos (Black), pardo (brown), Amarelos (Yellow, i.e., East Asian), and indigenous.

[ingimotomovement]

Never thought of entering an actual color, im going to see what I resemble most. I usually just check all the boxes.