"Practicalities" of Reparations (was Re: Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 30 09:03:17 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>The Census? You always boast that the U.S. government has the best
>stats in the world.

The Census relies on how people identify themselves - though the boxes they offer up for checking influences how people identify themselves. Many now call themselves "interracial" - a category that barely existed a few decades ago, and didn't exist officially on the 1990s Census.

Doug



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