The issues I have witht the cenus is that I understand why its necessary. (To keep count of the overall human population) But it also seems that "they" (the Government Im assuming) Also wants to keep track of how many racial an ethinc groups are here in Aerica as well. And in what areas they reside, now people claim that the these things are done so on a local scale when the state legislators are sending out funding for schools, roads and other local amenities, that this is how they determine which funds go where first. Now I ask if racism is based on;distribution of power and wealth. Isnt the census just a documentation that helps further carry out racism?
No wonder many minority groups dont want to do thier census, and are suspicious of the government not treating thier local districts with the same funding as they do other areas with less minorities. I think once we admit that the census is just another tool used to keep certain peopl in certain places. Just ad welfare sytem is another used tool to opress many minoroties as well....then we may be able to make some progress here in America concerning racism.
Also why is it okay for offensive words like "Negro" to be a option as a race? I think people are too free with derogetory words in general but especially ones geared towards black people. Its never okay to say other derogetory words and there has never been a debate about it either. We just know that saying "chink" or "beaner" are unexceptable. And least of all we would never see them written on a government document. This was a cheap shot in my personal opinion. I was offended. I m not a negro or any other variation of the word.
No comments:
Post a Comment