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*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE We may encounter many defeats but we must [...]
*I read a commentary recently lamenting the elimination of the designation of the term, “Negro” for American born Africans, now commonly referred to as “African Americans,” from the U.S. Census form. I just shook my head, said “Good-bye, Negro and turned the page. I didn’t pay much attention to it Then one of my more [...]
*(Via Seattle Times) – After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word “Negro” to describe black Americans in surveys. Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels “black” or “African-American”. The change [...]
*(Via Mercury News) – The term “Negro” is slated for elimination after several African-Americans took umbrage with the 2010 census question asking if a person was “black, African-American or Negro.” Oakland NAACP leader George Holland said the term wasn’t acceptable to him, but questioned its removal at a time when some older African-Americans still identify [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “Whether the knife falls on the melon or [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE I don’t know the key to success, but [...]
*The word “Negro” may no longer appear on a US census after this year, thanks to a woman who took offense to the term and voiced her opinion directly to the Census Bureau Director on live television. The whole thing went down on C-SPAN Friday. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves was a guest on “Washington [...]
*The Census Bureau send you the packet yet? You know the one where they ask you 99 questions about everyone living in your household. Well, in case you didn’t get it, the questionnaire has one question on it that asks are you black, African American or NEGRO. Now, some people are pissed and are voicing their [...]
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