Census 2010

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. So with the new year of 2010 it is time for people to fill out the new census forms. But there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the new form. On the box for race for black people it says black, African American, Negro. Many people were offended by this box. Not only black people but also Caucasians were speaking out about how the way the box tried to categorize the black race made them feel uncomfortable. Personally I found it offending. However the makers of the census justified this by saying that they didn’t want anybody to feel like they were not represented. They said that older African Americans refer to themselves as Negros while middle aged people consider themselves black opposed to the progressive generation who consider themselves African Americans. With that being said I just feel like it shouldn’t matter what race you are in the first place when it comes to receiving federal funding. And I want to encourage the community to fill out the form do not let this issue keep your community from receiving funds.