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Thread ID: 9294 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-08-26
2003-08-26 07:10 | User Profile
The following is from [url=http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/fair.htm]http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/fair.htm[/url]
Nonsense and racial sense in the U.S. census.
In the past, race was universally understood as a meaningful way of describing people, even if it did suffer from a lack of understanding of the genetic code that is responsible for racial differences. As the West entered the 20th century however, the forces of change were begun to overthrow race as a meaningful construct. It has been argued since that time that all races are the same except for superficialities like skin color or hair texture. Over the last 100 years, and especially in just the last couple of years, there has been an orchestrated outcry against the term "race." Strangely enough, the scientific advancement of both the Human Genome Project, and the Human Genome Diversity Project, has put us on a collision course with the politically correct assumption that race has no meaning. Since the Left cannot stop genetic research, they have instead attempted to change the language - "race" has been supplanted by "population group" or "ethnic group" as a means of keeping the debate about racial differences hidden from the public, even though it is a vigorous area of investigation by behavior geneticists, population geneticists, etc. It is now easy to compare groups based on genetic frequencies. Racial closeness between any two groups or any two individuals is extremely easy to calculate through DNA testing. So where has the United States government stood on this issue?
I happened to come across two documents from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the governmental agency that is responsible for developing the racial and ethnic categories for use in the census every ten years. One was published in 1995 entitled Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. The other was the FAIR Act Inventory published in 1997. These documents discuss proposed changes in the way we group races or ethnic groups, but it seems that the effort to do so is so confused and incoherent that no changes were made in the 2000 census (using Directive No. 15, Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting, issued in 1977). (Both of these documents can be found on the government's Internet.)
Complete article is at [url=http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/fair.htm]http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/fair.htm[/url]