Got my Census form today and the majority of the questions deal with race. Are we “American”? “Human”? “White” (looks more pink to me)? Divide and conquer is the method being used.

And why are they breaking Asian and Hispanic down into all these categories? Why is Colombian or Korean or Japanese more valid than Irish or German or French or English or Italian or Irish or Scottish or Swiss or American? Are “Whites” just inter-changable? What about people who’s ancestors came from Afghanistan? India?

I thought we were all American. I guess not, some people are still “Chinese” or “Japanese” or “Vietnamese”. “Whites,” well, they are just “whites”.

Skin color or what portion of the Earth your ancestors came from are about as useful as eye color and hair color – except to racists.

So much for being “post-racial.” I’ve never owned slaves, neither did my ancestors, neither did they sell their comrades into slavery, but who cares?

How about: I am part of the human race, from Earth. Sounds much more uniting that all the rest of the b.s. coming out of Washington.  It is called “racial profiling” when it is done at the airport.