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September 19, 2023

A handy barometer for federal, monetized aggression against the American people can be readily seen in the documents of the U.S. Census, as it fails to justify its growing demands upon our privacy and insists on the priority of ‘race’ in every evaluation.

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The U.S. Census documents imply, by focus and repetition, that racism is the crowning national proclivity — despite the same being, in real life, sanctioned by a slim minority. Aren’t most of us tired of being held ransom in ‘black’ vs. ‘white’ land? I know I am. If we consider Census-speak as a whole, its insistent presumption is that we the people are to confirm, in writing, the Fed’s bizarre, loose identity politics.

“The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically. In addition, it is recognized that the categories of the race item include racial and national origin or sociocultural groups. People may choose to report more than one race to indicate their racial mixture, such as “American Indian” and “White.” People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be of any race.”

OMB requires five minimum categories: White, Black, or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.” 

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Oh-Kay. The Census does admit that it is not using formal definitions or understandings of what ‘race’ means, at all: that is right; they aren’t, but they are making some up.  Whatever might be “a social definition of race”?

 If we use William Shakespeare’s marvelous definition of humanity, of a naturally equal human species that trumps race, spoken by Juliet to Romeo, we can draw a legitimate analogy as to how secondary, at best, race truly is, compared to the family of man:

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

Juliet affirms that nothing about Romeo, no part of him, argues against his essential identity, the human persona that she partakes of and loves.  Most relevant here is her first line: ‘’Tis but thy name that is my enemy.” Juliet is telling Romeo that the only element dividing them from each other is that which seeks his or her identity in one’s family ‘name’ (the Montagues and Capulets are locked in a long, bitter feuding).  She is telling Romeo that she and he are of a piece and that their shared humanity overrides family or blood feuds, or names (or races, by analogy).

From the US Census:

In addition, it is recognized that the categories of the race item (emphasis added) include racial and national origin or sociocultural groups. People may choose to report more than one race to indicate their racial mixture, such as “American Indian” and “White.” People who identify their origin as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish may be of any race.

OMB requires five minimum categories: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.