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

[Doug Henwood]

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