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This is brilliant & I'm delighted to pass it along.  Lets see how far we can get it to go.


Sending a Message with the Census:



I haven't gotten my letter from the Census Bureau yet asking me to fill out the questionnaire. But when I

do fill it out, I'll use it to send a message.



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 theNew 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). 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. 

 i have gotten some replies from my email, he said, when asked what race i always put HUMAN