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So Latinos now surpass Blacks by 0.1% of the American population.

Hello, America. Welcome to the Wild Wild West.

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[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

There's a whole weird thing with the census, though, where they didn't count the blacks who identified themselves as biracial, but did count multiracial latinos. Or something like that. And what about black latinos, of which there are many?

Er, sorry. I have census issues. Stupid U.S. government with its stupid labels.

And I don't see why this is something the media's felt the need to make such a thing of anyway, you know? It reeks of "divide and conquer."

(Don't worry, I realize your post is just kind of a "huh," I just can't make myself shut up sometimes.)

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

where they didn't count the blacks who identified themselves as biracial, but did count multiracial latinos.

That's an interesting factoid.

Stupid U.S. government with its stupid labels.

Yeah. I was always bitter that I never got to the check the box that said "Scottish not French white person" on standardized tests for school. Everyone got multiracial labels but me.

And I don't see why this is something the media's felt the need to make such a thing of anyway, you know? It reeks of "divide and conquer."

I dunno, I've always foound it kind of interesting. Geographical populations demographics and stuffy. When I went to Washington DC a year ago I was absoluteey fascinated by the fact that there were almost no Latino people, but several Haitian people. California girl that I am, this was just weird. Weird not to see the same array of ethnic types you'd normally see when you talk down the street.

[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I've always foound it kind of interesting. Geographical populations demographics and stuffy.

Oh, absolutely it's fascinating, especially because the definitions of race keep changing (literally -- part of the confusion was that the last census was the first to allow people to check more than one racial category, and until maybe twenty years ago "latino" and its variations weren't even options in the same category -- you had to choose white, black, asian, etc. and then there was another question that said "of hispanic origin? yes/no") and it's all really next to impossible to pin down, yet there are these concrete numbers getting tossed around like it's that simple.