Our upcoming census

[jediagh]

Originally Posted by Joe Williams

As you pointed out I'm a "temp federal employee," as low on the totem pole as they go!

Almost but at least you can still "kick" the gov. contractor.

[LEaSH]

Please direct all questions about the 2010 US Census to Joe Wiliams ; )

[Indiana_Dave]

I thought it an act of idiocy yesterday when I got a letter in the mail telling me that the census form would be coming out in a matter of weeks. If a person is going to blow off the census form itself, what good is a letter in advance going to do?

[henktermaat]

Michelle Malkin My race is “American”

My race is “American”
By Michelle Malkin • March 9, 2010 10:47 AM

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.

[mrjarrell]

Or just don't put anything in the race section. It was originally added not to determine who people were, but to determine who 3/5's of people were.

[henktermaat]

Joe, when I check the box, do I fill it in completely, or can I just put an x there in the box?
Do I use #2 pencil or pen?

[Joe Williams]

Originally Posted by henktermaat

Joe, when I check the box, do I fill it in completely, or can I just put an x there in the box?
Do I use #2 pencil or pen?

Yes.

Well, I was just going to leave it at "yes," but ya'll are my friends, so I will let you know that you must fill the squares in completely. Failure to do so will result in visits from the waterboarding team.

[henktermaat]

Well, filled mine out. Left out names, phone numbers, race, etc.