Answer the race question on your 2010 census truthfully
Posted on March 10th, 2010 by TonyIn the next week or so Americans will be receiving their 2010 census. This process is mandated by our Constitution so as to provide an adequate count of the number of people living in this great nation.
It has been pointed out that fully one-quarter of the form is devoted to questions of race and ethnicity. Rather than look at us as we all should – simply Americans – we are asked to hyphenate our answers based on origin. But, you only do that if you are part of certain groups.
Once we are citizens are we not Americans first and foremost above anything else? Is that not the most logical and truthful answer that citizens should put on their form?
In his essay “True Americanism”, President Theodore Roosevelt addressed what he called ‘hyphenated Americanism.”
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
That was written 113 years ago and is as fitting today as it was then. I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Mark Krikorian points out, “In fact, “American” was the plurality ancestry selection for respondents to the 2000 census in four states and several hundred counties.”
When I complete question 9 on my census, I will be checking ‘Some other race’ and entering ‘American’ in the blank. I encourage all others to do the same. Take a stand against these ridiculous questions that are simply none of the government’s business.
We are AMERICANS – That is the answer that matters the most.

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