Works for all of us.

Well, those that are here legally anyway.

“Human” is another good choice.

But Obama can’t even answer that one correctly. He should have checked both black and white. Little known fact is that the Census form says to “check One or More boxes”. This most intellectual of Presidents can’t even figure out simple directions.

Another little known fact, the Census didn’t release that info. They don’t release ANY specific personal information on ANYONE for 72 years. Someone at the Whitehouse thought it would be a good idea to release what Obama put on his form. I suppose it was supposed to encourage his supporters to cooperate with the Census. Whatever….

I would really rather they take the race question off. It offends a wide segment of the population.

At how bad of a losing issue this. As someone who comes from mixed race background, I would have probably filled it out the same way if I was ignorant of the rules of checking one or more races, of if I was being a smartass like I was in college, I checked off white, black, and then other, and put in the blank you figure it out. The reason why the mention of this is such a losing issue is that when a majority of white america looks at me, they don’t necessarily see from just by looking that I have German, and Polish ethnicity from my mother’s side, what they see is a person that is darker than them, therefore black. Now intelligent people may ask but I don’t think I would be the most accepted at a KKK rally.

All it can do is feed the slander machine of our enemies. You can’t be conservative and racist. Period. End of discussion..

An obsession with racial trivia makes us look like we’re exploiting the issue. Why are we on the defensive with the Tea Party movement? It is likely that any racial slur at a Tea Party event is coming from a liberal mole. It is time to put to rest the notion that opposition to big government or illegal; immigration is racially motivated. Carping over Obama’s census form only interferes with that message.

get in line to check the White or American box, then pay your taxes like a good little boy.

grew up in a sea of Black faces. Whats the real story of the Dominican Republic? Please, do tell.

One additional line in the NY Times story:

“In the 2000 census, when Americans first were allowed to check more than one box for race, about 6.8 million people reported being of two or more races.”

So we have the President of the United States of America, a graduate of Harvard Law School, and he either (1) can’t figure this out, or (2) chooses to be black and not white at all.

IT HAS NO PLACE ON REDSTATE: Are you kididng? This was on WeaselZippers. It was in the NY Times. I could mention more websites. It’s not an issue when the president (certainlly, a census “role model”) answers the census incorrectly, and tells mixed-race people to ignore their white heritage? No one can talk about it on a political website? In my opinion, this is far more important than other things that have gone viral, such as “57 states.” This is not an error someone makes because one is tired. He simply and stunningly ignored his mother’s race. That is not “racial trivia.” Obama was made famous because he’s told us this “trivia” a thousand times in speeches.

HICKORYSTICK:
“Of course Barry, you have no story, just another white guy ” Huh? What’s your problem?
“Better Yet, explain how your wifes parents grew up in a sea of Black faces.” My wife grew up in New York City, where there are about a million Dominicans. The census question we were talking about was number 8, “Hispanic/Spanish/Latino,” and not the race question.

IMHO, it is not a general news site. The standard that something is published elsewhere is not a high enough bar.

I see no relevance to the issues we care about of the box Obama checked on his census form. It adds nothing to our opinion of the man or to the left wing philosophy he espouses.

Do you really think his self-identification with African Americans stems from anything more than that his dark skin color and the way others saw him led him to to that perception? At first, there is a superficial resemblance between Barack Obama and Clarence Thomas. Yet one is wrong about the U.S. Constitution and the other is right. The same is true of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

I’m sorry I even commented on this thread. This kind of foolishness does not reflect well on our cause.

The NY Times story was written by Sam Roberts (who has written a book on the census) and was the just about the only MSM news article to point out that checking both “black” and “white” was an option, as millions of other Americans have done.

THe VIllage Voice just covered the story, taking some pot shots at our own Erick Erickson.

Ann Althouse has written on the same topic and has received many comments:

Saturday, April 03, 2010
Obama bypasses the biracial option on the census form.

Even though “he could have checked white, checked both black and white, or checked the last category on the form, ‘some other race,’ which he would then have been asked to identify in writing.” In the last census, in 2000, 6.8 million Americans opted to present themselves as bi- or multi-racial. Presumably, a lot more people will do that in 2010. Why didn’t Obama?

It isn’t often that one size fits all, but in this case, it does. There is no scientific criterion to define “race”. Just a bunch of arbitrary physical characteristics which occur in temporarily separated populations. No clear bright line. Anyone who is “proud” to be white or “proud” to be black is at best misguided.

Stop playing the racist liberal game by their rules. The entire progressive movement is based on the “enlightened” racism of the 19th and 20th century.

What a laugh! Their heroes are Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger, two of the vilest American racists of the last century. A tip of the hat to Glenn Beck on this one.