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[Dixie]

Now here is a winning idea.
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Sending a Message with the Census [Mark Krikorian]
John: I haven't gotten my letter from the Census Bureau yet asking me to make sure I 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 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.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDAzNTgyZTM4NGRiMzUxNDk2MzljMDBlMDdlYTQxMzU=

I'm going to do it and going to send this along to everyone in my email address book.
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Pray for Obama.....Psalm 109:8
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[ogre]

Whenever I get a questionaire asking "ethnicity", I usually put...."Human".
When they ask religion with a long list of different denominations for christians but only Muslim (forgetting that Sunnis and Shiite hate each other's guts and Sufis and Ba'hais to name a few), I put Christian.
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"You can share the truth, but you can't make anyone believe what you believe."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100827/D9HROVM00.html

[Dixie]