Negro on the 2010 Census

So yesterday through another blog I found out about Negro being on the 2010 census. The options were "Black, African American, and Negro".

Today an older black woman in my poli sci discussion class made a case out of it. She kept repeating "This is 2010 not 1910". I responded by saying "maybe it was directed at very old people". Our discussion teacher (who has some black in herself) was shocked by the government's lapse in judgement.

The whites in the class didn't say anything nor seemed to care.

I was kind of passive to this.

Should "negro" be there? No. They claim its there to encompass what "African American" doesn't....but isn't that the point of "black"? Which is clearly an option on there with "african american"?

I mean, would people today even know what classifies someone as "negro"? Which was "black" 40 years ago.

As long as "nigger" isn't on there...I am not upset.

Some claim that "negro" is for spanish speaking blacks...but there isn't alot of them around and the few that are around probably would check something else. On top of that, this brings up an entirely new issue...why the heck do we have to be so damn conforming to the spanish speaking people? Learn English or leave America!

Most whites seem to be more up in arms about "African American"(for no reason other than to be ignorant of history) rather than "Negro" which is an actual outdated term no longer used.

I mean, the only people who use "Negro" in AMERICA (an English speaking country), are old people who don't want to change and racist young people who obviously use it as a way to be disrespectful.