#us census

United States: 2020 Census Results Released

These data will be used to draw new congressional districts as well as dictate how $1.5 trillion dollars of annual public spending is distributed. Regional trends showed that Americans continued to migrate to the South and West at the expense of the Midwest and Northeast. In addition, the U.S. has become more urban and more diverse, as the non-Hispanic white population decreased for the first time on record. Lower birth rates for white women compared to Asian and Hispanic women drove this ethnic change. 

Further Reading:New York Times,The Hill,AP via Yahoo! News,Bloomberg Quicktake, American Geographical Society. Graphic Source: AP News.

Eve ry time I post something about reparations, there’s always some incoming news. Ancestors are on board, chile . 

Congrats, California!!     

This is so pivotal for the AB3121 California Task Force Reparations Proposal for Black Americans. Data disaggregation been needed to be in every state. They’re finally listening.

“Black or African American” was purposely done…for obvious reasons, causing people to file under a racial ethnic group they aren’t nor identify as. Can’t get specific things done if others are identifying as you. We’re invisible on paper because of this. We’ll finally see who is who in Cali for starters. 

Now we need a new ethnic group to follow.

I’ve been thinking Native Black American/Negro. “Native” because there are people who don’t descend from U.S. chattel slavery but still self-identify as such as well as their real ethnic group. That’s harmful for us. And we gotta dust off and bring Negro back . (Go sit your ass down, Obama.) It connects to the language used on our ancestors paperwork throughout centuries in this country, which is a seamless connecter for our reparations.

You ever realized race stopped being listed on US birth certificates, death certificates, driver’s license and other things since 1970 (I believe) other than your “select a choice” doctors forms and the US census? Although that began to be taken away in plain sight, we were simply called Black. “Say it loud.” You know the rest took place in 1960s but the label dates back rather than that. 

Then insert Jesse undermining Jackson changing our ethnicity in 1988, which was technically just Black even tho others prob wouldn’t understand why we use it as an ethnic group and race, on his own behalf to African American, which I explained is an immigrant identifier and a Pan African identifier (everyone of African descent): Insert the convo around Chalize and Elon Musk’s ass here . 

In the United States, your race was determined by your mother’s race. 

What was our classified identifier before the 1850s: Tribal names/Slave/Free Colored/Gens de couleur libres (in Louisiana and Missouri…? (don’t take my word fully on Missouri but I believe so))

“Black” dates back to the 1850 US Census for those who weren’t filed as Mulatto then the collective reclassification of American Indians/Black/Mulatto (mix between two or three: Black,American Indian,White) as Negro (then the Dawes Rolls kicks off with the $5 Indians aka them “settlers”, kicking out brown (actual color brown)/dark brown Indians for what would be called “Native American” for the Five CivilizedTribes)thenColoredthen back to Black later “Say it loud.” thenAfro-American on the 1970s US Census then African American in the 1990 US Census then Black/African American then “Black or African American”  in 2020 to present-day. All these damn names, chile. 

That’s why Black American comes into play. It’s more understandable for others. Adding Native in the front will create a clear distinction if it pans out this way.