**EXCLUSIVE** Check Negro Please!!!

So it seems on the 2010 U.S. Cenus application question number 9 asks what’s your race?. And the choices are White, American Native, American Indian, Black, African American, or Negro. Did you get that?  You can check Negro, what a country we live in. It seems that the U.S. Congress, a year ago, voted on adding the term Negro to the census application, but wait that’s not all, Jack Martin, a U.S. Census Bureau spokesman called it ‘a term of inclusion’ another spokesman said that the term is intended to offer older African Americans a new identifier. So old black people still use the word Negro? I don’t understand why they would need a new identifier from an outdated word.  The Bureau gave two reasons on why they included the term, first, terms such as ‘Haitian’ or ‘Negro’  can be used in addition to ‘Black’ or ‘African American’. Second, some African Americans refer to themselves as ‘Negro’; they said that thousands opted to write the word Negro on the 2000 census form. It shocks me that it only took a couple thousand people to get congress to vote on something so ridiculous. I wish it were that easy when it comes to healthcare. Some are stating that it’s also a color complex issue because some African Americans are light skinned and I guess don’t want to be identified as black. My question is, what’s wrong with checking black?  

The entire rationale behind this controversy wasn’t well thought out, the Census Bureau made the change because a couple thousand people wrote in ‘Negro’ well what if they had written ‘Colored’? Then would it be ‘colored’? And this was back in 2000. And as far as them calling it ‘a term of inclusion’ I’m sure people in the 1940’s and 50’s didn’t take offense when they were called Negro, but as of 2010 it’s not a term of inclusion and i