Glenn Beck has found another reason why Americans shouldn’t fill out the 2010 Census – it’s too confusing! Especially if you’re black.
On his radio show today, Beck and his co-host discussed the difficulties African-Americans will face when identifying their race on census forms. “There’s a little confusion because there’s three boxes you can check if you’re a certain race,” the co-host said, “I don’t know what the race is because there’s three different terms for them. Black, African-American, or Negro.”
Beck took offense at the very suggestion that “African-American” could be used to refer to a racial, and not an ethnic, identity.
African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. OK, so you were brought over — either your family was brought over through the slave trade or you were born here and your family emigrated here or whatever but that is not a race.
Listen to the full audio clip here.
