What the fucking fuck with this racist shit?
Because the census wants to know your race or ethnicity. “American” isn’t a race or ethnicity. It’s a nationality.
So Australian society doesn’t recognize different races or ethnicities among Australians?
Because whether or not it’s right this is the way most americans think about blacks. Same with them characterizing that all Asians are yellow skinned with slanted eyes. You may not like it and it is racist but there it is. You cannot talk about racism without actually giving examples of it. Not sorry if it’s offends you.
You weren’t giving examples of racism. You said, “Kamala Harris is an American Black as far as I’m concerned. Not a ghetto raised hip hop black, but a black American.”
This weekend on PBS, Ms Amanpour said Kamala is an African American and Indian America…
She isnt black-minority but not black
There are states that ask for your race when you register to vote?
I’m sure that’s never abused. /sarcasm
The census form asked you to “mark one or more boxes.” (cite) Is there a reason you felt uncomfortable marking multiple boxes?
Speaking for my family: yes, there is a reason we felt uncomfortable marking those boxes. Last century, my marriage would’ve been illegal and/or renounced my citizenship. Things have improved since then, but as recent politics show, nothing is secure. We answered our races and ethnicities as “American”.
SC Voter Registration Form
Apparently South Carolina does.
On the other side - if you don’t have that information then it’s much, much harder to detect, track, and fix a problem because you’re missing the statistics.
Still not sorry. As far as I’m concerned you are being nitpicky. Grow a thicker skin.
To be clear, I was specifically asking @jprokos who seemed to say that s/he was choosing to mark only one box instead of marking multiple boxes.
You seem to be confusing ‘stating something’ with ‘defending something.’
I am not saying that East Asians are the only ones who should be considered Asian-American. I’m saying that that’s how it generally is - that in general, when someone says “Asian-American”, they are referring to East Asians specifically, not Arabs, Indians, or white-skinned Russians from the Asian half of Russia.
How exactly do you think I’m picking nits here?
I’m letting you know that you posted a very shady phrase. It has nothing to do with the thickness of my skin.
It is a simple and unfortunate fact that many Americans do, in fact, discriminate according to what they perceive as race. By the standards of most such people, both Kamala Harris and Barack Obama fall into the category “black”, and are treated as such. We, as a society, would like to decrease (and hopefully, eventually eliminate) this discrimination, but in order to do so, we need to first be able to detect when and where it’s happening. And one of the ways we detect it is via forms like the one in the Census where people are asked to report their race.
And nobody here cares. Take your issue with my phrase to the Pit where I will just ignore you.
It’s interesting that you’re comfortable speaking for everybody here.
You the only one complaining. Meh.
No, he is not.