Census 2010: It’s In Our Hands So Just Fill It Out!!

So My census paperwork came in the mail today.  I’m assuming this came for some other folks as well because on twitter there was this buzz on my time line complaining about the census using “Black, African American or Negro” on the check-box.  Who cares! Just fill the paperwork out and move on!  These are the same folks that go around calling each other nigga but get offended at the term Negro.  Really? Really? Better yet, don’t fill it out over something that stupid, but don’t complain when your schools are overcrowded, The hospital is overrun and understaffed, the bus has stopped coming and there are no community centers or jobs in your area.  That’s what the census is for stupid!

The next argument was ‘well how come they don’t put white or Caucasian? Or any other race’? Simple because we are the only ones that feel the need to change the category every few years.  We, as in my race, decided to change the name every 4-5 years so you can’t get mad at the census people for trying to keep up by putting the most popular ones on there.  White people have always been called white.  They added negro because some older people don’t go by the politically correct term African American or black.  I know my grandmother and grandfather don’t.  They are Negroes and don’t go by African American.  So in an effort to be inclusive to all generations of ‘Blacks, African Americans, or Negroes’ they put them all on there.  If you are that offended then there is a section for you to write in your own ethnicity.  Feel free and have at it.

 

Let’s keep it all the way funky, while I am not a big proponent of classifying people by race, when it comes to the census it may be for a reason.  While I admire these fools for trying to stand for something, though I’m not sure what, you have to pick your battles in order to win the war.  Basically fill out and mail back the damn form!  Sheesh!  It’s really not that serious!   Don’t try and make this one more thing to complain about that we really don’t need to be  focusing  on.  “We can’t move forward, until you mail it back”.

 

That.is.all.

Sincere