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

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 30 09:13:21 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

Many "interracial" & "multiracial" individuals may want to be black again.

Yoshie



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