Checking the Racist Box: White Supremacists Stand Up to be Counted in the 2010 Census

[babsbunny]

http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/1011

BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

The Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC) announced a write-in campaign on the 2010 Census' race question. So-called Confederate Southern Americans should check "other" on the race query (question number nine) and write in the space provided “Confed Southern Am” to indicate their "race."

"Now is the time to let the government know that millions of Americans are proud of and revere their Confederate national origin status," said Kirk Lyons, the group's founder and chief legal counselor, in a video announcing the effort. "We can start the process to give the southern community here in America a voice again so that our concerns will be heard."

And what concerns might those be?

Well, the bulk of Lyons' legal work these days appears to revolve around defending the rights of students to wear Confederate flag T-shirts to school. But in the past, Lyons has defended controversial groups from the Fort Smith sedition trial to Posse Comitatus to the White Patriot Party.

[KamaAina]

1. Fine with me

as long as we count them as three-fifths of a person. :P

[DCKit]

2. Code it as a typo - South American - then deport their treasonous asses. n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. This is quite funny, though I will admit to some minor monkey wrenching on forms like the census