Comments on: Census 2010: What Race Should Latinos Choose?

By: LORMEL

LORMEL — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:20:47 +0000

It is very easy to know one’s race. Look in the mirror.
One may call himself Hispanic and look like he is from Africa.
Labels are absurd. I can tell a person’s race just by looking at him regardless of what they claim.
Red White Yellow Black are the races of mankind.
Go by your color and facial features
I’ve seen people who look African say they are Hispanic. I think not. This is as absurd as a Chinese saying they are Hispanic. They should say they CALL themselves Hispanic. Hispanics now have been grouped with anyone that doesn’t look like Winston Churchill or Margaret Thatcher.
Hispanics are in the White race if they look white as far as color is concerned. But if they look African they are Black not Hispanic..
I see a lot on the internet a black person say he is Hispanic, but I can clearly see they are African. I have never seen a Hispanic call themselves Black. But many Blacks calling themselves Hispanic.
The Bible says we all came from on blood, that we the offspring of God.
God doesn’t see race he sees human beings created in his image. The only reason I can see why they so desperately want to label people is because of pride.
Pride is something God hates if it is against another human being.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 27 May 2011 03:09:43 +0000

White is not a geographical location, neither is Black. Why do Hispanics, Asians, and all the Natives have to specify geographical locations? Why can’t we have our own unified color like Tan? Tan Americans? Too big of a voting majority? Lol.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:40:16 +0000

I just completed the census over the phone after losing my form. I told the census worker that I would not answer the race or color questions because they were poorly written and not thorough enough. He encouraged me to answer “other” and describe it myself, I again told him that I would not for the same reasons.

By: Mara

Mara — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:11:36 +0000

Deb…

It’s a shame that the closed adoption system continues and children are continue to be kept from their biological histories, cultures, ethnicities all in the name of “adoption” and supplying children for the childless.

The flesh trade is alive and well and human rights are extinguished with every transaction.

By: deb

deb — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:42:39 +0000

I have two adopted children, one from Peru and one from Guatemala. My Peruvian son has the look of a Native American. He is possibly of Inca or Quechua descent. But I have no idea. When I got to question 9, I was totally stumped. Now I’m thinking he could be considered American Indian, because “America” comprises both North and South American, doesn’t it?

By: NorskeDiv

NorskeDiv — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:14:33 +0000

Well said Kurt.

Hey, I’m half German. Germans were a race too just a hundred years ago, along with Norse, Irish and what have you.

If Latinos are going to balkanize into a separate “race,” let’s go all the way and give every option. Wouldn’t it be great! Arab, Druze, Chinese, Slavic, Germanic, French pride!! Maybe we could even split up into a bazillion little states and have a civil war with each other.

Maybe it’s just me, but I think the days where Irish, German and so forth all viewed themselves with group pride in America were worse days, not better. I suppose many Latinos are first generation, so it’s understandable they see themselves as separate. But it bothers me deeply when Latino groups, the media (or for that matter the KKK) make these hyperbole statements about “whites” being the minority, and cast it either as some sort of triumph or doomsday. It really sickens me – I mean, it literally makes me feel like barfing.

By: Rafiki

Rafiki — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:47:04 +0000

Not to easy for a Spaniard like me, but what’s the difference among Black, African, or Negro??

Great blog.

By: Mara

Mara — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:18:43 +0000

Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races.

Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.”

How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be?

Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”.

It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops.

Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”.

Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society.

If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself.

I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:25:31 +0000

Hey, at least you have options; I’ll be filling in “White” and forced to ignore my ethnic origins.

By: HispanicPundit

HispanicPundit — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:42:59 +0000

Being the sell out that I am, I just put White. :-D