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Originally Posted by srmom
That's my point though, in the case of the census bureau, they researched what words to use, checked with their advisory counsel, and based on the respondents from the last census used the word Negro in order to reach out to the people who identified themselves that way. Yet, by trying to accomodate those people's self identifications, they stepped in it and insulted others.
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The academically inclined people who work for the Census Bureau knew better than to include "Negro" just because a relative (population) minority of people choose (for whatever reasons) to identify themselves that way. In fact, I don't trust that they truly researched that and were unresourceful enough to not know that they have to go beyond what some people SAY to find the foundation of what they really MEAN.
I need people and agencies to wear their "smart hats" more often. Some will have to find it and dust it off. But, wear it.
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