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Race
Craig Bedward
It seems like every time I'm asked to fill out a form these days, they want to know what race I belong to. Government census forms, product surveys, all sorts of things want to know where your long-dead ancestors lived and how much melanin is in your skin. Did you ever stop to think why people want to know?
The only thing it does is divide us. Here are a list of categories, put yourself in one. Split up into your teams. Blacks over here, whites over there, Asians there, ... E Plurabus what?
The last census, I recall hearing a radio ad urging everyone to fill out their forms and to be sure to fill out the whole form. It is important to get all the information back to the government, she said, because the results determine how much government funding will come back to the area. Fill out all the information and hopefully you will fall into a category that qualifies your hometown for a big wad of cash from Uncle Sam.
Many of the forms that ask for race list the major categories and then have a box marked "other" with a write-in spot. Next time someone asks you to fill out one of those annoying forms, why not write in "human."