Monkey-Wrench the Racialist Machine!
October 10, 2011 7:31 P.M.
By Mark Krikorian  
Last March I urged readers to list “American” as their race on the census, as a (perfectly legal) protest against the absurd and unconstitutional race laws we live under. The next census may seem far away, but its parameters are being determined now, so this is the time to act. To that end, someone has started a petition at the White House site to “ Remove Racial and Ethnic Classifications from the U.S. Census.” The site for such petitions explains that:
We created We the People because we want to hear from you. If a petition gets enough support, White House staff will review it, ensure it’s sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response.
“Enough support” in this case seems to mean 25,000 signatures by November 4. Now, obviously the White House is not going to act on this regardless of how many signatures it gets, but a big turnout would potentially be fodder for blog and media coverage and build political support for Congress to instruct the Census Bureau on what to include or exclude from the 2020 census form.
So sign the petition!
Re: Monkey-Wrench the Racialist Machine!
October 10, 2011 10:38 P.M.
By Mark Steyn 
Mark, I agree. But the neo-apartheid obsessions of Big Government extend way beyond the Census. I took a friend to a Vermont hospital a couple of weeks back, and was interested to see a notice on the counter at Admissions informing us that under the 2009 American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ie, the trillion dollars of “stimulus” Obama tossed in the Potomac and watched float out to sea) the hospital is “required” to collect information on each patient’s ethnic and/or racial identity. Usual stuff: “Pacific Islander”, “Asian”, “Alaskan native”, etc. The notice informed us this ”program” is “administered” by the Office of Management & Budget. Evidently administering such programs leaves the Office of Management & Budget with little time for either managing or budgeting, which helps explain why this is the Brokest Nation in History.
The justification for the government’s obsession with racialist classification is that it helps them to “direct” “resources”. In reality, it’s a pretext for ever bigger government, and ever smaller citizenship – for your status as a US citizen counts less and less when weighed against these various government-regulated identity categories. The Office of Management & Budget has no legitimate interest in racial classification of private hospital admissions. Also, it doesn’t do anything to “stimulate” the economy – although, in that respect, it’s entirely consistent with the rest of the act.
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