Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Census Question Number Nine


The Corner at National Review Online has an interesting piece regarding the 2010 Census.

As you may know by now, nearly everything the Obama Administration does has an agenda, and much of their agenda is racially motivated.

The Census is no different, and we must not forget that control of this years' Census has been removed from the Department of Commerce and granted to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

National Review Author Mark Krikorian explains:

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.

10 comments:

Chris W said...

I got notification that my census form will be arriving soon. Not sure how or if it will be filled out.

The Conservative Lady said...

Hi Sol:
I'm passing this along on the Facebook page with the link to you.

Soloman said...

Chris W -

Since I only check my mail a couple times a week I don't know if my notification has arrived.

From what I understand, all that is legally required is the number of people living at the residence. Everything else is not need-to-know. The census is for counting purposes only...

Soloman said...

Hey TCL -

As always, thank you - and glad to have you share the info!

Teresa said...

Hi Sol!

I love the idea!! I am going to pass your idea along.

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

Ditto ... American

Soloman said...

Teresa -

Glad you plan to pass the idea along, that's exactly why I posted it!

Soloman said...

Odie - right on!

Bill Greene said...

This is really picking up steam: http://www.checkamerican.org/

Soloman said...

Bill - thanks for the link! I signed and of course encourage all to do the same!