One major problem with collecting all the detail they ask for is that
it makes it much easier to identify you as an individual,
without them giving out the record with your name on it,
by using the very detailed summaries that *are* available.
Census tracts aren't very big, at least in urban area
At 4:05 PM -0800 3/14/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
>Tim ranted about racial/ethnic classifications.
>A former boss of mine had a coworker named "Mueller" who lost one
>job opportunity to a reasonably-well-qualified minority during
>some of the early affirmative action stuff. Mueller _was_
>a Puerto
At 11:00 PM 03/14/2000 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>I got my form today. It's worse than I thought. Though I got the
>version written mostly in English, not the Ebonics version.
>
>"White" is apparently the catch-all for Celtic, Nordic, Czech,
>French, Polish, Afrikaans, Jewish, Arabic, Jordanian, Gyp
> All so that Lavonda Larue-Shambala can get her
> monthly AFDC and WICC and other payments so she get high with her
> crack-dealing boyfriend and do some more welfare-cheatin' breedin.'
and leave more guns laying around in an irresponsible manner such that
the Fed goons will pass more laws
At 4:29 PM -0500 3/22/00, Aaron wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:06:19 -0500, Petro wrote:
>
>>
>> What if one doesn't *know*?
>>
>> For instance in my case, specific genetic ancestory is
>>unknown, I can *assume* from looking at my skin, that I am white, but
>>since I could be 1/128th a L
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