The U.S. Census Bureau updates its forms
After more than a century, the Census Bureau is dropping its use of the word “Negro” to describe black Americans in surveys.Instead of the term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation, census forms will use the more modern labels “black” or “African-American”.
The change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households, Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau’s racial statistics branch, said in an interview.
He pointed to months of public feedback and census research that concluded few black Americans still identify with being Negro and many view the term as “offensive and outdated.”
Welcome to the 21st century!
“Oh my lucky stars!”
Aahh, nothing like a little government efficiency to brighten the day. It only took this branch of Big Brother some 70 years to change the wording of one question.
Why don’t they simply call anyone who happens to be a citizen of this once great land, umm, er… an American? Always with the government labels!
Does anyone think they’ll ever come up with a “pasty, light brown American”? If so, I will finally have an accurate category!
Sure am glad they wasted months on “research” to tell them what any person on the street with functioning brain activity could have told them.
What,me a “Blanco”?
Personally, I hope Charlize Theron checks off “African American,” and then publicises it, just to embarrass the bureaucracy (as if *that* could happen!).