'Slap In The Face'? Word 'Negro' Appears On 2010 Census Forms
SOURCE: NPR (1-7-10)
The Census Bureau says it has included "Negro" as a way for individuals to classify their race in the 2010 Census because some older African-Americans wrote it on their forms in 2000.
But many African-Americans find it insulting.
-- "It's almost like a slap in the face," Nikyle Fitzgerald tells WTOL in Toledo.
-- "I am a little offended," Dawud Ingram says to WCBS-TV.
-- "It's a bad vibe word," Kevin Bishop says in the New York Daily News.
But many African-Americans find it insulting.
-- "It's almost like a slap in the face," Nikyle Fitzgerald tells WTOL in Toledo.
-- "I am a little offended," Dawud Ingram says to WCBS-TV.
-- "It's a bad vibe word," Kevin Bishop says in the New York Daily News.
Source:
NPR
Source URL:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/slap_in_the_face_word_negro_ap.html
Date:
1-7-10
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