Once again at AceOfSpadesHQ I saw something that sparked my interest. It is about how to answer a particular question on the intrusive Census 2010 form. Here is the idea from Mark Krikorian:
"Question 9 on the census form asks "What is Person 1's race?" (and so on, for other members of the household). My initial impulse was simply to misidentify my race so as to throw a monkey wrench into the statistics; I had fun doing this on the personal-information form my college required every semester, where I was a Puerto Rican Muslim one semester, and a Samoan Buddhist the next. But lying in this constitutionally mandated process is wrong. Really — don't do it.
Instead, we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option — "Some other race" — and writing in "American." It's a truthful answer but at the same time is a way for ordinary citizens to express their rejection of unconstitutional racial classification schemes. In fact, "American" was the plurality ancestry selection for respondents to the 2000 census in four states and several hundred counties.
So remember: Question 9 — "Some other race" — "American". Pass it on."
That is how I intend to fill out Question #9. And except for the number of people who live in our house, I will probably leave the other questions blank, unless people come up with more clever, truthful ways to fill out the other questions.
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