Should race remain on the US Census?

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Anonymous says:

because we are all Americans

posted on Thu, 04/19/2007 - 8:58pm
Anonymous says:

yes we are and all the same

posted on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 12:02pm
dalva says:

yeah we all are maybe people think we are diffrent because of our colors.

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 9:23pm
Felicity says:

We all share each otohers language and equilaty we are all the same but diffferent in special ways and that's what makes us, us
we are all Americans

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 12:42pm
Anonymous says:

I Agree!!!!

posted on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 3:37pm
Anonymous says:

no way

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 11:44am
Anonymous says:

not all of us are americans, im canadian

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 2:20pm
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Gene says:

Good point. (And welcome to Buzz!) But the question was specifically about the US census.

It would be interesting to know how other countries handle race on their census forms.

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 4:14pm
Anonymous says:

i am canadian too

posted on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 9:44am
Anonymous says:

yes you are right everyone should be treated tight

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 9:11pm
dalva says:

yeah I back you up on that because we are americans.

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 9:19pm
Anonymous says:

yes we are.

posted on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 10:43am
Anonymous says:

nobody should be judged on the color of there skin....

posted on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 1:41pm
taylor says:

i do belive we are all the same in every way if we all work togetha and clean our inveriment and live togehta in a beta world

posted on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 9:35am
Anonymous says:

yes i know

posted on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 9:31am
Anonymous says:

Yeah we are all Americans so it should be fair you now what i am saying......ok bye

posted on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 1:02pm
Anonymous says:

yes we are americans but every body should have the same right

posted on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 3:11pm
jason says:

I think that it is ok that they ask the question in the census

posted on Fri, 04/20/2007 - 2:15pm
Anonymous says:

I think that we shouldn't ask that question. Are we not all people? I mean we as americans get counted in the censuse and we could just as well be in the postition that all

posted on Sat, 04/28/2007 - 4:01pm
Anonymous says:

you go girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you rock alot of people say that we should

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 11:06am
Anonymous says:

why it does not matter

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 11:05am
Anonymous says:

i think race shouldn't be on the us census because everyone's a person no matter what race they are and does race really matter in the big picture

posted on Sat, 04/21/2007 - 3:46pm
Super Man says:

it does not matter what race you are everyone is made equal.

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 10:36am
crazylegs says:

it doesnt matter what people think about you

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 10:40am
Anonymous says:

Yes, it does genius.

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 2:54pm
Anonymous says:

because we are all living in America and that is all that matters. The government uses the information about ethnicity/race for what? That is the bigger question!

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 4:25pm
<em>Gene</em>'s picture
Gene says:

A lot of government programs track race, originally as a way of making sure that discrimination does not occur. (You can't tell if a program is integrated if you don't know the races of the people involved.) Some people argue that some of these programs act mostly to benefit one race or another.

The borders of congressional districts are often drawn in such a way as to make sure the residents are predominately of a single race -- a practice which actually hurts minority representation.

posted on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 12:36am
Anonymous says:

i think things should remain the same, but there should also be space for ppl to write in what they consider themselves so that new categories more reflective of current conceptions of race can be made for the next census.

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 5:10pm
Anonymous says:

The value of this approach is that a different taxanomic system would need to be invented.

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 5:30pm
Anonymous says:

Because racism and institutional racism still affects people in this country and we need to keep track of how it affects people. Through the census we can see distribution of wealth, etc. Although, it is certainly an imperfect way to measure disparity.

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 5:55pm
Anonymous says:

In the end we're all human beings. We all have hearts that beat the same, we all have the same blood flowing through our veins.

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 5:56pm
Anonymous says:

Yes, we're all similar on the inside, and we are of the same species. But that doesn't mean we treat each other the same! Nor does it mean that we have a reason beyond appearance for treating individuals differently.

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 5:59pm
Anonymous says:

I think that people are really boring, so they need race and racism to feel important.

posted on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 6:41pm
Anonymous says:

race is important if we are serious about addressing racism.
Census data gives us valuable information about people's lives (occucpation, SES, other demographics), and whether racial differences persist in a country that values basic human rights (health, liberty, etc.)

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 6:00pm
Anonymous says:

No matter how different we all are, we are all human beings. We may dress and look different but we cry the same cry and laugh the same laugh.

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 6:02pm
Susanna Vue says:

Race is an important thing, it a way of how people define themselves and a way of how people's relationships grow, it the difference that makes us unique, BUT that shouldn't be the reason why one is lable a certain way!
My answer to this question to this is that no.

Susanna aka SuZiE-q

posted on Thu, 04/26/2007 - 6:09pm
Anonymous says:

I think that there should be an open space for people to say waht they think they are because the government needs to know about waht immagration rates are.

posted on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 10:24am
Anonymous says:

Yes

posted on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 11:41am
Dally says:

we should not even worry about race becuse it should mattter what is in the inside

posted on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 1:11pm
Anonymous says:

It what inside that counts the most, we are not all that different towards each other. would everyone repeat the same mistake as we have already back then thank you

posted on Sat, 04/28/2007 - 6:26pm
Anonymous says:

Why is race so important anyways? It doesn't matter does it? I mean, one day in the far future I'm sure there'll be more and more relationships that are interracial. Their children will be known as "mixed" kids and it won't really matter. *Shrugs* People need to stop making race such a big issue and just accept that we're not all created the same. That's what makes us who we are. =)

posted on Sat, 04/28/2007 - 6:38pm
Anonymous says:

it's important to monitor the discrepancies in socio-economic status that linger as a result of the social construct of race.

posted on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 2:15pm
lil' L says:

Race is syupid. We all came from the same place and even if we don't look the same on the outside we are the same on the inside and everyone should be given an equal oppertuinety

posted on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 3:30pm
Anonymous says:

Because we're all of African descent anyway! We're all African!

posted on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 4:02pm
Anonymous says:

I think people should be able to fill in blank. the info. can be useful in getting across the point that mnay people identify with more than one race and in the long run that race isn't useful wy to catagorize people

posted on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 9:55am
danielle says:

Yes, because it is getting stats on every type of race and everyone should be happy of who they really are!

posted on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 10:29am
Anonymous says:

yes i think it should be left on the census.We need it for statistics.i dont think its on there to discriminate.

posted on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 10:29am
dooodette says:

becausem it um doesn't like um matter :)

posted on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 11:25am
sly says:

There is no way to accurately define any one person. Does my son have to check the following of his census:
irish german french russian indian and include our best % guesses from the past

what about his kids

race information is absurd

may be the census could track everyone's dna

at least it would be objective

posted on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 4:40pm
Anonymous says:

No. We shouldn't be asked that on the census.

It shouldn't matter. It doesn't matter. Don't judge people by their skin color and you wont be judged by your skin color. Get over it. We nake a big deal about it, trying to fix it...but the truth is, if we just let it go, it wouldn't be a problem.

posted on Tue, 05/01/2007 - 11:10am
Anonymous says:

well why not it is stupid how we judge people by there color.

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 11:03am
the annoying on the block says:

yea i yeah i think all this stuff but people make it look like its all a big deal y can't everybody just get along and not make it such a big deal i mean i can make friends with everybody but other people arn't like me.

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 11:29am
Kali says:

no matter what people look like on the outside shouldnt matter. we're all people we all make mistakes so it shouldnt really matter what e look like our what our culture is or what our skin color is. IT DONT MATTER!!! were all people!!!

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 11:30am
Mr. Tims says:

I think that race should not be a question on the census, because it can be construed as offensive and degrading to some people.

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 11:44am
Anonymous says:

Race should be included in the census as a tool to help recognise the social and economic effects that racism still has in our society. I have seen these effects first hand, having been a census taker in Southern California in 1980 and 1990

posted on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 12:43pm
Anonymous says:

I think that everyone has equal rights and we should not judge people by thier looks or race.

posted on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 10:57am
Anonymous says:

Why wouldn't you want to know the demographic of the people taking the census? If you don't ask race, you might as well not ask sex or age either - let alone income or work status

posted on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 2:24pm
Anonymous says:

If we don't know we are all in the same category. No one is the majority.

posted on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 6:07pm
Anonymous says:

It doesn't matter what race we are; we are all Americans.

posted on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 6:09pm
Anonymous says:

Think about whycensus is condcuted in the first place. One reason is used to justify spending for education and social programs. The real issue is class, and race covers up adressing this inequality. You can maintain unique identity without having to put it on the census. Your identity is in your heart, not the law.

posted on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 6:41pm
Anonymous says:

We need identifying questions because like it or not, race has a major impact on people's lives, and the census figures are denominators in rates showing different experiences of different groups. BUT - I think the question should be changed. There should be two questions. 1) "What race do most people think you are?" and the choices are White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Indian. 2) "How do you identify yourself?" open-ended.

posted on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 8:18pm
Harry Johnson says:

Race is not important and people's lives shouldn't be judged by some one ethnicity

posted on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 8:29pm
Anonymous says:

who cares what race we are. it shouldn't matter for anything and putting it in a document only shows that racismis still out there. They should be the first to model that it doesn't matter what race one is!

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 11:02am
Anonymous says:

i believe that race should remain on

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 11:10am
Anonymous says:

i don't like that the fact of race is still in the us

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 11:20am
Cathy Vickson says:

EVERYBODY is EQUAL

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 12:22pm
sammi says:

no i don't think it's "cool" that this race is in the us!!!

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 12:35pm
tennessee says:

hey, listen up. Yes we are all Americans, but are there not also illeagal immigrants & suicide bombers & terrorists? The US census is making a good idea in the race question. People can lie, but it makes it more secure. The US knows what they are doing, maybe you don't!! Why do people have to be so DIFFICULT!!!!!!!!!!

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 1:55pm
<em>Liza</em>'s picture
Liza says:

The census, by design, has nothing to do with national security, immigration, or law enforcement. The questions about race on the census are not there for the government to find illegal immigrants, suicide bombers (who, by the way, are notably uncommon in the US), or terrorists.

The architects of the census know that if people fear that answering the questions honestly will land them in trouble with the law, they won't talk to the census takers or fill out the forms. And an accurate snapshot of the US population is important for a lot of different reasons.

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 3:49pm
Anonymous says:

So long as individuals and societies continue to treat people differently based on their perceptions about the social construct of race, some information about it can be useful in ensuring that efforts to equalize treatment are adequate. However, current categories are inadequate, so let people define themselves or decline to do so. I hope that ultimately it will become irrelevant.

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 3:46pm
Anonymous says:

race is an important part of human identity, and is only has negative condentations when people use differentiations in race to make vital decisions, and hold others back. privilege should be exempt from our society, but unfortunately it is still infused into our governing systems, and even worse, our thought patterns. we each need to look outside of race when considering treatment of others.

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 3:50pm
Anonymous says:

whychange?
People expect some standard questions on this census. It is a good tradition,something our founding folks thought important, as I agree with.

posted on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 6:17pm
Kim says:

many people are a mixof races/ethnicities/cultures and cannot been defined by one large category ... also many follow a culture such as hispanic when they are only a % of that and wouldotherwise maybe need to check a "white" box.

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 10:25am
Anonymous says:

what is thepoint to a census, if we dont ask that?

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 10:48am
pnv says:

because we are all the same but we are also different in our own ways

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 11:05am
Anonymous says:

people r people no mater what

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 12:34pm
cleo says:

here's a scenario: two people with exactly the same heritage fill out a census and put in two different answers for race. are they different races biologically? no. however, they view themselves differently and this is what afftects their lives more than their actual biological heritage. race is subjective, but the government SHOULD measure it on the census because it shows people's personal views.

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 12:34pm
Anonymous says:

I think they should have a space so people can write what race they are because by having some races lilsted while others are just listed as "others" is VERY discriminating...

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 12:41pm
Anonymous says:

we r not separated into whites and blacks, we are just people

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 2:47pm
Anonymous says:

Je trouve que la question de race st ma foi tres actuelle. Mais je ne pense pas qu on trouvera la reponse au musee aujour dhui!

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 3:59pm
Anonymous says:

why should this matter...we r all the same anyways..

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 6:38pm
warrengirl95 says:

race is race. we should know it, we should show it

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 7:56pm
Mia says:

i agree w/ u! I think race is race and people should really pay attention and certainly show it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 8:55pm
Anonymous says:

why does it matter any way

posted on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 9:01pm
me (duh!) says:

we are all ameicans and shold not be judged

posted on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 1:54pm
Gage says:

No we are all people it should not be a big deal what color your skin.

posted on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 2:36pm
Anonymous says:

Race shouldt matter here in america because of the reason that we are all equal and americans.

posted on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 2:46pm
alexa says:

Well,
it is what it says, doesn't it

posted on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 3:56pm
Anonymous says:

maybe we should be asking if you are legally in this country rather than race

posted on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 4:40pm
Anonymous says:

It doesn't matter what your race is, your still a amarican

posted on Tue, 05/08/2007 - 11:35am
Anonymous says:

Because it is stupid to jude by their color!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted on Tue, 05/08/2007 - 2:13pm
Anonymous says:

Just because people are different colors you shouldn't juge them.

posted on Tue, 05/08/2007 - 2:15pm
Anonymous says:

you are so right

posted on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 3:12pm
Anonymous says:

I think all were created equle

posted on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 11:30am
Anonymous says:

i do geneology- the information is great!!!!

posted on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 12:10pm
Anonymous says:

I do not think it should be a question because it is not a huge deal what race you are. We are all people

posted on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 1:57pm
Anonymous says:

We are all the same

posted on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 2:49pm
Anonymous says:

becaues god made us to love each other despite our color or religion

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 11:20am
Anonymous says:

yes i think it should be on the census because we are all different, but still united. by doin this we can use this as help us find out how many different races there are in the U.S.

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 2:23pm
Anonymous says:

i think we should not care about what color eachother is, and make everybody feel like a big loving family, and this goes out to everybody in the world and i'm hoping at least everyone who feels like were all a family follows along what i have to say.

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 4:48pm
Anonymous says:

i think u are crazy

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 4:50pm
Anonymous says:

I think that it is unfair to judge people by race and after giving it out you have no guarante that that will not happen.

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 5:13pm
Anonymous says:

because it's only being used to catagorize us

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 9:12pm
dalva says:

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH ALL OF YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted on Thu, 05/10/2007 - 9:25pm
Anonymous says:

Being on sides were we are judged by our types is sooooooooo wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 7:18am
Anonymous says:

i think people should not be judged by there color

posted on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 10:58am
Anonymous says:

race doesn't matter

posted on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 11:01am
Anonymous says:

nobody should be dicriminated

posted on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 12:35pm
Anonymous says:

Yes because it is the census and it is providing information including race % through out the US

posted on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 4:46pm
Anonymous says:

We are all Americans but if we are ever going to work to create a place where we are all equal Americans who are treated equally we are going to have to see race and take it into account, not pretend that we don't see it in what we do every day.

posted on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 11:44am
Anonymous says:

actually if you look at it we are all the same people but also different in our own ways so noone can say we are all the same.thats your opinoin not an fact thank you very much

posted on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 11:56am
Anonymous says:

who cares what the race of a person is. i shouldnt matter.

posted on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 3:48pm
Anonymous says:

We are all Americans, but the option of choosing your race helps to show how diverse the United States is. We are made up of many different races!

posted on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 4:21pm
5th grade at halverson says:

This is a weirdly cool site.

posted on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 11:51am
Anonymous says:

What how can they do that? That's just an example of racism in our world today. :(

posted on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 12:02pm
Anonymous says:

yes? No? Maby

posted on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 12:10pm
delaney says:

cool

posted on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 12:16pm
Anonymous says:

Race is real because racism is real.

posted on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 12:55pm
Anonymous says:

I believe it should be left the way it is. Try doing Genealogy and looking up a name like "Smith", and the nationality is African American. Just how any people of all nationalities have a common name like that! So it sure helps me track who I am looking for by showing the persons Race.

People need to be proud of their nationality, color and race! And understand that Yes we are different from one another and proud of it!

posted on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 8:46pm
Todd says:

Yes it should be tracked on the u.s. census bereau with the option to say what race you are. Yes we are all Americans who live here in the united states but we are still different races and ethniticitys. We need to track race so that we make sure that everybody is being treated fairly.

posted on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 1:44pm
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