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Clip: 2010 U.S. Census

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Mar 26, 2010

Clip: 2010 U.S. Census

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00:00:00 A HALF YEARS ON EARTH WHERE AND I SAID IN A CARD WITH THE CENSUS BUREAU BEING THAT LARGE.
00:00:11 I AM BLACK.
00:00:12 I DID NOT APPRECIATE THE BLACK, AFRO-AMERICAN, AND NEGRO.
00:00:22 THAT GOES BACK TO WHEN I WAS LIVING IN TENNESSEE.
00:00:24 I DO NOT LIKE THAT.
00:00:26 THAT IS OUT OF CHARACTER.
00:00:29 IT HURT MY FEELINGS. THAT TO ME IS A RACIST.
00:00:34 GUEST: FIRST OF ALL, LET ME APOLOGIZE TO YOU ON BEHALF OF ALL MY COLLEAGUES.
00:00:40 I NEED TO TELL YOU WHY THAT WORD IS THERE.
00:00:42 IT TAKES A COUPLE OF MINUTES.
00:00:45 BEFORE THE 2000 CENSUS, THERE WAS A LOT OF RESEARCH DONE ON HOW TO ASK GRACE, AND SOME OF THE RESEARCH WAS SET UP TO -- ASK RACE, AND SOME OF THE RESEARCH WAS SET UP TO NOT GIVE CATEGORIES AT ALL.
00:01:02 WE WOULD SAY TO TELL US WHAT WORD THEY WOULD CALL THEMSELVES IN RACIAL TERMS.
00:01:10 THE RESULT OF THE RESEARCH WAS THAT THERE WAS AN OLDER COHORT OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO COME IN THAT RESEARCH, FOR RELEASE SAID, "I WOULD THINK OF MYSELF AS A NEGRO.
00:01:26 " THE RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH PRODUCED THE WORDING OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SEE HERE.
00:01:32 THERE IS ONE OTHER THING WE NEED TO KNOW.
00:01:35 ABOUT 56,000 PEOPLE IN THE 2000 CENSUS, IN ADDITION TO CHECKING THE BOX, ONE TO BLOW -- WENT BELOW AND WROTE THE WORD "NEGRO .
00:01:50 " WHEN YOU ANALYZE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THOSE PEOPLE, ABOUT HALF OF THEM WERE LESS THAN 45 YEARS OF AGE.
00:01:57 THIS WAS A BIG SURPRISE.
00:01:58 THOSE WERE THE RESULTS OF THE 2000 CENSUS.
00:02:02 NOW, I HAVE NOTED THIS ALREADY.
00:02:05 I THINK IN RETROSPECT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE SOME OF THE SAME RESEARCH THIS DECADE.
00:02:10 IT WAS NOT DONE.
00:02:11 THERE WAS FOCUS ON OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF THIS.
00:02:16 THE INTENT OF EVERY WORD ON AT THE RACE AND ETHNICITY QUESTION IS TO BE AS INCLUSIVE AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT ALL OF US CAN SEE A WORD HERE THAT RINGS A BELL FOR US, THAT IS HOW I THINK OF MYSELF.
00:02:32 IT WAS NOT TO BE OFFENSIVE, AND AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE ON THAT.
00:02:38 MY SPECULATION IS THAT IN 2020, THAT WILL DISAPPEAR, AND THERE WILL BE OTHER WORDS THAT WILL CHANGE.
00:02:44 OUR LANGUAGE ABOUT RACE AND ETHNICITY IS UNDER CONSTANT FLUX.
00:02:51 IT'S A CHALLENGE FOR US TO KEEP IN TUNE WITH THAT DYNAMIC NATURE, BUT WE NEED TO DO IT.
00:02:56 HOST: WHY THIS QUESTION EIGHT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HISPANIC ORIGIN -- GUEST: GREAT QUESTION.
00:03:04 WE HAVE QUESTIONS ON ETHNICITY AND RACE.
00:03:07 WE DISCOVERED ANY RESEARCH -- IN RESEARCH, AND PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS RESEARCH -- IF YOU EMBED HISPANIC AS A RACIAL CATEGORY, ONE WAY OF DOING THAT IN PAST YEARS, THERE ARE HISPANICS TO SAY -- WHO SAY "I HAVE A PROBLEM IN ANSWERING THAT QUESTION," BECAUSE THERE ARE WHITE HISPANIC AND BLACK HISPANIC THE SEPARATION OF ETHNICITY AND RACE WAS TO GET A BETTER MEASUREMENT OF THAT.
00:03:43 BOTH WHITE HISPANICS AND BLACK HISPANICS SOUGHT PLACES FOR THEMSELVES.
00:03:46 HOST: ROBERT, HI CALL.
00:03:56 CALLER: I AM A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN, AND THE ONLY QUESTION I ANSWERED ON THE QUESTION IS HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
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