I personally believe that negro was placed as a choice on the census to piss black people off. For the longest, people were speaking out about how black people should vote and that their vote counts and that they do matter. But now they go and put negro on the census so that black people would be offended and not want to count themselves. I believe thats what they want because when they don't count themselves, then it's believed that majority of the people in the US is white...a.k.a more of a certain race, more power.
When I was filling out the census last year, I was appalled they would define people as that. Now coming from a girl who went to a majority white school and grew up around white people, my reaction was reasonable. But think about all the black people who don't even really interact with other people of different ethnicities. They have to be right to feel beyond upset about this because it's just another thing to say to put them down and show that they are beneath it all.
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