A very interesting post from www.VDare.com about the dangers in ignoring or misleading on the Census. This follows this post which describes something you can do if you want to protest the census after filling it out properly and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso across from the recent Juarez shooting. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.
How Race, Ethnicity Questions On Census Boost Anti-White Quotas
By Steve Sailer
I’m always being asked why I study identity politics issues such as race, ethnicity, sex, and age.
The implication is that those aren’t appropriate topics for respectable discussion.
Yet the Census form that recently arrived in your mailbox shows that the U.S. government is quietly obsessed with those same questions.
The Constitution defines the decennial Census as an "enumeration"—i.e., a count of everybody. Therefore, the questionnaire is kept relatively short. (The Census Bureau asks more detailed questions on a vast variety of subjects on its monthly American Community Survey sample of 250,000.)
What questions are considered so critical to the government in 2010 that the Census has to ask them of every single resident?
Of the ten questions on the 2010 form, five are concerned with enumeration (for example, asking your name and phone number) and one with whether you own your home (with or without a mortgage). The other four deal with identity:
6. What is Person 1's sex?
7. What is Person 1's age and Date of Birth?
8. Is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin?
9. What is Person 1's race?
In contrast, there are—of course—no questions asked about whether the resident is a citizen or is even in the country legally.
Personally, I believe that paying careful attention to what the state is doing is public-spirited. But it’s more fashionable to be studiedly naïve and ignorant about race. For example, liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias recently proclaimed:
"My guess is that in the future the vast majority of people descended from immigrants from Asia or Latin America will be seen as white."
Yet, why in the world would they want to be white when they win money and prizes from the government for being legally nonwhite? You get more of what you pay for. And the U.S. pays people to consider themselves non-white.
Thus, since the 1960s, all the movement has been away from being seen as white. For example, Indian immigrants used to be officially white. But South Asian businessmen successfully lobbied the Reagan Administration in 1982 to have Indians reclassified from Caucasian to Asian category so that they could get on the gravy train for low interest SBA minority development loans and minority preferences on government contracting.
When you stop and think about it, it’s bizarre that Indians, the highest income recent immigrant group, receives legal preference over native-born U.S. citizens from the U.S. government. But it’s considered in bad taste to suggest that Indians should give up their racial privileges.
The Census seems to furnishes a good time to think about how the government classifies people by race and ethnicity—abstruse-sounding questions that turn out to be hugely important.
By themselves, the ten Census questions only allow the government to determine:
The number who live in each political jurisdiction
Their race and ethnicity
Whether they own their homes
The first purpose follows directly from the Constitution, which mandates that Census results be to be used for redistricting every ten years.
One little-known oddity about the Census: illegal immigrants are currently counted the same as citizens in drawing up Congressional and legislative districts. Highly Hispanic districts thus tend to be "rotten boroughs" representing relatively few actual citizens a.k.a. voters, which makes a mockery of the Supreme Court’s principle of one-man-one-vote.
For example, in 2008, immigrant enthusiast Democrat Xavier Becerra won re-election in California’s 31st Congressional District, a heavily illegal immigrant part of Los Angeles County, in an election that saw only 111,000 votes cast. In contrast, in California’s 50th Congressional District in suburban north San Diego County, Republican Brian Bilbray won a race in which a total of 312,000 votes were cast. Each individual voter in Bilbray’s district counts for only 36% as much as an individual voter in Becerra’s district.
Britain reformed rotten boroughs during the Prime Ministership of the Duke of Wellington. But they are increasing in modern America, a direct result of our ongoing illegal immigration disaster.
Let’s turn to the government’s second purpose, finding out your Race and Ethnicity. These questions on the Census form provoke a little more public discussion. Hence, the Census Bureau’s official justification of its Race question claims:
"Race data are also used to assess fairness of employment practices, to monitor racial disparities in characteristics such as health and education and to plan and obtain funds for public services."
You may wonder what data have to do with "fairness of employment practices." After all, civil rights laws are usually justified as being about blacks not having to sit in the back of the bus, which you probably haven’t seen much of lately.
So how does anti-discrimination compliance get assessed by race data, anyway? Because, in reality, civil rights programs these days are mostly based on numbers—
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