#AA Call To Action: 2020 Census To Keep Racial, Ethnic Categories Used In 2010

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President Donald Trump’s administration will not be making changes to the 2020 U.S. census recommended by President Barack Obama’s administration, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Friday.

“The Census Bureau will continue to use two separate questions for collecting data on race and ethnicity in the 2018 End-to-End Census Test, and as the proposed format for the 2020 Census,” read the announcement.


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From LSA:

The sample form that WAS being considered for the 2020 U.S. Census is below. These changes were proposed under the Obama administration. The trump administration decided a few days ago that they would not support those race and ethnicity changes so as of today, the 2020 U.S. census questions will look like the 2010 forms. This can be changed through CONGRESS!


OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PROPOSED CENSUS FORM FOR 2020 (Notice that African Americans had their own box as an ETHNIC GROUP)

Here is the shytty form from 2010 that the trump administration wants to continue using for 2020. All black people continue to be lumped together:pissedoff! CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN! UGH!

2020 Census Will Ask White People More About Their Ethnicities


The Census Bureau has not responded to NPR's questions about why this change is being made to the "White" category for 2020. A similar write-in area will be added under the "Black and African American" category.

The bureau has conducted extensive research into how to collect more accurate data about race and ethnicity in 2020. The data play a critical role in drawing legislative districts, enforcing civil rights laws and analyzing health statistics.

Researchers at the bureau have recommended adding check boxes for the largest ethnic groups and a write-in area for smaller groups under the racial categories in a proposal that would radically overhaul the race and ethnicity questions on the census.

PROPOSED RACE/ETHNICITY QUESTION FOR 2020 CENSUS (p. 96)

Researchers at the U.S. Census Bureau have proposed asking for people's race and ethnicity in a new way on the upcoming 2020 census. If this is approved, anyone who checks off the "white" box could also mark boxes for groups such as "German," "Irish" and "Polish" or write in another option.
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But that extensive change would have required the White House's Office of Management and Budget — which sets the standards on race and ethnicity data for the Census Bureau and other federal agencies — to approve an Obama-era proposal that census experts say the Trump administration is not likely to move forward.

 

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How To Help:
Contact Your Congressman/Woman:
Find Your Congressman/woman: Find Your Representative | House.gov

Reach out by Letter or Call to:
Albert E. Fontenot, Jr.
Associate Director for Decennial Census Program
ADDC, +1.301.763.4668
albert.e.fontenot@census.gov
CC E-mail: geo.psap@census.gov
Phone: 1-844-788-4921

Contact Census Bureau by Letter:
U.S. Census Bureau
Attention: Albert E. Fontenot, Jr.
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233

Re: Request to Keep Ethnic Categories Proposed by Obama Administration on the 2020 Census

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Reach out to Black Lobbyist Organizations:

Watts Partners
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Washington, DC 20001
202-207-2854 phone
202-207-2853 fax
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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
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Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
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Washington, DC 20004
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202-789-3500

National Urban League
http://nul.iamempowered.com/
120 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005
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Reach out to Congressional Black Caucus:
Website Address: https://cbc.house.gov/

Mailing Address/Phone:
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS
420 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 226-9776

Send a letter to CBC Chair and Members listed here:
https://cbc.house.gov/about/about-the-chair.htm
https://cbc.house.gov/about/leadership.htm

CBC Chair and Congressman
Cedric Richmond
420 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Email Mr. Richmond or find out how @: https://richmond.house.gov/contact-cedric

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Send Letter to NAACP:
Website Address: http://www.naacp.org/

National Headquarters
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Baltimore MD 21215
Local: (410) 580-5777
Toll Free: (877) NAACP-98

Washington Bureau
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Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 463-2940
Fax: (202) 463-2953
washingtonbureau@naacpnet.org

 

[Akata Man Bromo]

Subs thanks for this

 

[Yehuda]

What's wrong with this one?

 

[xoxodede]

What's wrong with this one?

Exactly. They chose not to do this one. That one is the one Obama proposed It appears most ethnicities wanted this one as well - everyone but Hispanics.

The designation for those of Middle Eastern descent would be “MENA,” for Middle East and North Africa, and the new Hispanic designation “would make it harder for Americans who originate in Latin America to identify themselves as black, white, or some other race,” according to Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator, and editor who has reported from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, told The Daily Signal in an email that the development is good news for U.S. citizens.

“This is a victory for the American people, who have demonstrated again and again that they’ve had it with balkanization,” Gonzalez said. “Creating yet one more pan-ethnic category, for MENA, and cementing an older one, Hispanics, would have taken the country further down the road of division.”

The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund, which seeks to increase the effectiveness of Latino policymakers, decried the Census Bureau development.

“NALEO Educational Fund is deeply dismayed that the Trump administration has determined that the Census 2020 will proceed with a two-question format on the collection of Hispanic origin and race data, overturning the recommendation of Census Bureau expert staff to use a combined race and ethnicity question,” the statement read. Trump Administration Not Taking Up 2020 Census Recommendations From Obama Administration​

2020 CENSUS WILL ASK WHITE PEOPLE ABOUT ORIGINS BUT LEAVE OUT QUESTIONS ABOUT HISPANIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN IDENTITIES

Nevertheless, in a report released last year, researchers at the Census Bureau wrote that it has been trying to address community concerns about the race and ethnicity questions, including a "call for more detailed, disaggregated data for our diverse American experiences as German, Mexican, Korean, Jamaican, and myriad other identities."

"I think it could change the discussion," says historian Nell Irvin Painter, who wrote The History of White People. "Masses of Americans think of their census racial identification as their real identification, as if it carried more than just policy implications."

The federal government has distilled whiteness into a bureaucratic definition to collect information for redrawing legislative districts, enforcing anti-discrimination laws and measuring health effects. Since 1977, "white" in government data describes anyone "having origins in any of the original peoples" of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa. (Another proposal the White House is considering could reclassify people of Middle Eastern or North African descent as a distinct racial group separate from "white.")

The improved categorization would help in addressing things like hate crime reporting, helping minority business owners get loans and drawing congressional and state legislative boundaries to more accurately represent the population.

 

[Yehuda]

Exactly. They chose not to do this one. That one is the one Obama proposed It appears most ethnicities wanted this one as well - everyone but Hispanics.

The designation for those of Middle Eastern descent would be “MENA,” for Middle East and North Africa, and the new Hispanic designation “would make it harder for Americans who originate in Latin America to identify themselves as black, white, or some other race,” according to Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator, and editor who has reported from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, told The Daily Signal in an email that the development is good news for U.S. citizens.

“This is a victory for the American people, who have demonstrated again and again that they’ve had it with balkanization,” Gonzalez said. “Creating yet one more pan-ethnic category, for MENA, and cementing an older one, Hispanics, would have taken the country further down the road of division.”

The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund, which seeks to increase the effectiveness of Latino policymakers, decried the Census Bureau development.

“NALEO Educational Fund is deeply dismayed that the Trump administration has determined that the Census 2020 will proceed with a two-question format on the collection of Hispanic origin and race data, overturning the recommendation of Census Bureau expert staff to use a combined race and ethnicity question,” the statement read. Trump Administration Not Taking Up 2020 Census Recommendations From Obama Administration​

2020 CENSUS WILL ASK WHITE PEOPLE ABOUT ORIGINS BUT LEAVE OUT QUESTIONS ABOUT HISPANIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN IDENTITIES

Nevertheless, in a report released last year, researchers at the Census Bureau wrote that it has been trying to address community concerns about the race and ethnicity questions, including a "call for more detailed, disaggregated data for our diverse American experiences as German, Mexican, Korean, Jamaican, and myriad other identities."

"I think it could change the discussion," says historian Nell Irvin Painter, who wrote The History of White People. "Masses of Americans think of their census racial identification as their real identification, as if it carried more than just policy implications."

The federal government has distilled whiteness into a bureaucratic definition to collect information for redrawing legislative districts, enforcing anti-discrimination laws and measuring health effects. Since 1977, "white" in government data describes anyone "having origins in any of the original peoples" of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa. (Another proposal the White House is considering could reclassify people of Middle Eastern or North African descent as a distinct racial group separate from "white.")

The improved categorization would help in addressing things like hate crime reporting, helping minority business owners get loans and drawing congressional and state legislative boundaries to more accurately represent the population.

the new Hispanic designation “would make it harder for Americans who originate in Latin America to identify themselves as black, white, or someother race,” according to Gonzalez.

But it says "mark all boxes that apply" and "you may report more than one group"

 

[xoxodede]

But it says "mark all the boxes that apply"

Yeah, I'm not sure what the issue was.

That was the "draft."

They are keeping this one. Someone can choose to list what they are in the boxes.

But, the Census reports/studies are saying people are not doing that. They just Mark Black/AA and move on. And same for the others - the proposed check mark would make them have to classify ethnic label.

 

[Yehuda]

Yeah, I'm not sure what the issue was.

That was the "draft."

They are keeping this one. Someone can choose to list what they are in the boxes.

But, the Census reports/studies are saying people are not doing that. They just Mark Black/AA and move on. And same for the others - the proposed check mark would make them have to classify ethnic label.

Idk what to say cause the one the Obama administration proposed makes plenty of sense to me, I get the feeling people are making it more complicated than it is on purpose.

 

[xoxodede]

Idk what to say cause the one the Obama administration proposed makes plenty of sense to me, I get the feeling people are making it more complicated than it is on purpose.

Me too. It's crazy - cause it seemed like white people were down with the classifications - as they know they were immigrants - all of them.

 

[AlainLocke]

Exactly. They chose not to do this one. That one is the one Obama proposed It appears most ethnicities wanted this one as well - everyone but Hispanics.

The designation for those of Middle Eastern descent would be “MENA,” for Middle East and North Africa, and the new Hispanic designation “would make it harder for Americans who originate in Latin America to identify themselves as black, white, or some other race,” according to Gonzalez.

Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and a widely experienced international correspondent, commentator, and editor who has reported from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, told The Daily Signal in an email that the development is good news for U.S. citizens.

“This is a victory for the American people, who have demonstrated again and again that they’ve had it with balkanization,” Gonzalez said. “Creating yet one more pan-ethnic category, for MENA, and cementing an older one, Hispanics, would have taken the country further down the road of division.”.​

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It seems like this guy is from the Heritage Foundation and a conservative...and is some ..."We are all the same shyt..."

USA is very different from France...I know France doesn't take racial or any demographic data that marks an identity....

How French law makes minorities invisible
The French state’s policy rejects any references to national, racial, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. This model is based on the idea that the state should interact with the individual only, not communities or groups, in order to give equal treatment to everyone. “Absolute equality” is seen as the best way to ensure the integration of all citizens, to the benefit of both the state and the citizens themselves.

As a result, French authorities have rejected any form of targeted measures for ethnic, religious or linguistic groups. In practise this has rendered minorities invisible and brought systemic forms of discrimination.

Legally, the constitutional principle of equality has been interpreted as prohibiting the government from collecting data or statistics on the racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds of its citizens, in any context. This means for example that the socioeconomic status of groups across any indicators based on racial, ethnic, religious or other grounds is unknown, and that the national census does not include any questions about race or ethnicity.

A 1978 law regarding “data files, processing and individual liberties” explicitly prohibits the collection and processing of personal data that reveals, directly or indirectly, the racial and ethnic origins, or religion, of any persons.

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We need to have an accurate representation of our country's people

This current census is an L...

We need to stop of that all this "We are all Americans..."

Some people are more for American than others...(in terms of getting a piece of the pie...)

 

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It seems like this guy is from the Heritage Foundation and a conservative...and is some ..."We are all the same shyt..."

USA is very different from France...I know France doesn't take racial or any demographic data that marks an identity....

How French law makes minorities invisible
The French state’s policy rejects any references to national, racial, ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities. This model is based on the idea that the state should interact with the individual only, not communities or groups, in order to give equal treatment to everyone. “Absolute equality” is seen as the best way to ensure the integration of all citizens, to the benefit of both the state and the citizens themselves.

As a result, French authorities have rejected any form of targeted measures for ethnic, religious or linguistic groups. In practise this has rendered minorities invisible and brought systemic forms of discrimination.

Legally, the constitutional principle of equality has been interpreted as prohibiting the government from collecting data or statistics on the racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds of its citizens, in any context. This means for example that the socioeconomic status of groups across any indicators based on racial, ethnic, religious or other grounds is unknown, and that the national census does not include any questions about race or ethnicity.

A 1978 law regarding “data files, processing and individual liberties” explicitly prohibits the collection and processing of personal data that reveals, directly or indirectly, the racial and ethnic origins, or religion, of any persons.

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We need to have an accurate representation of our country's people

This current census is an L...

We need to stop of that all this "We are all Americans..."

Some people are more for American than others...(in terms of getting a piece of the pie...)

What's your theory on him not wanting Latin people to be classified differently. I don't get it - I can only think it's takes their "white" preference away.

would make it harder for Americans who originate in Latin America to identify themselves as black, white, or some other race,” according to Gonzalez.

 

[AlainLocke]

What's your theory on him not wanting Latin people to be classified differently. I don't get it - I can only think it's takes their "white" preference away.

would make it harder for Americans who originate in Latin America to identify themselves as black, white, or some other race,” according to Gonzalez.

The thing about Latino...it's a recently invented identity.

Like it was made up no less than like 40 year ago.

It's kind of the same of Asian Americans in California that fights against non-East Asians no longer being "Asian American" because if they are no longer "Asian American"...South Asians can have a case for Affirmative Action programs and have precedent over Koreans and Japanese and Chinese who are more financially successful than the Cambodians, Pakistani,Nepalese or whatever ...

Affirmative Action hurts Asian Americans because they are less preferred they are more successful than even White people...

California Data Disaggregation Bill Sparks Debate in Asian-American Community

Two months later, Ding said she learned of another political fight — a movement to defeat a California bill requiring certain state education and health agencies to break down demographic data they collect by ethnicity or ancestry for Native Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Islander groups.

She said she heard about it on WeChat, a Chinese-language social media tool that had been used to galvanize nationwide support for Liang, and knew she had to get involved.

“To further disaggregate an already finely disaggregated population just doesn’t make any sense at all,” said Ding, who works as a data scientist.

The bill, known as AB-1726, has become a flashpoint in California’s Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Those who support it, including dozens of community and civil rights groups, say separating demographic data by ethnicity — and including at least 10 additional AAPI ethnic groups — can help better expose disparities in healthcare and education. This is particularly true among Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders, two groups that often get left out, they say.


But critics counter that the bill, introduced in the State Assembly in January, is unfair because it targets only Asians and no other race. They fear it could be a backdoor way of ending California’s ban on affirmative action and say it further divides up AAPIs into unnecessary hyphenated groups.



Asians and Affirmative Action Have a Thorny Relationship


Quotas are what critics of affirmative action tend to think of when they lament the treatment of Asians in college admissions. Two pending lawsuits, for example, accuse Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of resorting to such practices, of setting limits to the number of Asians admitted. The nonprofit group behind the lawsuits, Students for Fair Admissions, which largely focuses on Asian Americans, points to their static enrollment rates at elite schools as evidence that the schools limit the number of such students admitted. Asians are, after all, the country’s fastest-growing minority group. They’re also applying to and attending college at increasing rates, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.


Affirmative Action Battle Has a New Focus: Asian-Americans

By most standards, Austin Jia holds an enviable position. A rising sophomore at Duke, Mr. Jia attends one of the top universities in the country, setting him up for success.

But with his high G.P.A., nearly perfect SAT score and activities — debate team, tennis captain and state orchestra — Mr. Jia believes he should have had a fair shot at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. Those Ivy League colleges rejected him after he applied in the fall of 2015.

It was particularly disturbing, Mr. Jia said, when classmates with lower scores than his — but who were not Asian-American, like him — were admitted to those Ivy League institutions.

His group, a conservative-leaning nonprofit based in Virginia, has filed similar suits against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Texas at Austin, asserting that white students are at a disadvantage at those colleges because of their admissions policies.





I tell people all the time now....

Race and ethnicity...is a technology....like language and writing...

Race determines who get what...by making people that are very different from you an outsider...and cut off from resources...

Just think if Latinos can be classified as Black....White or whatever and the data is there and shows a disparity between White, Brown, and Black Latinos...and White Latinos are treated as White people when it comes to jobs and etc...like Asian Americans are treated as White people when it comes to jobs and etc....

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Since when is Egyptian white?

 

[BigMan]

Since when is Egyptian white?

Middle eastern people have always been counted as white in the census
Which is hilarious because almost every Egyptian I’ve met got hair like me

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Middle eastern people have always been counted as white in the census
Which is hilarious because almost every Egyptian I’ve met got hair like me

So a country on the continent of Africa is considered white. Got it.