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U.S. 2010 Census Controversy

I was reading a blog post recently on one of the controversies with the 2010 U.S. census. The issue is that census officials decided to include the word Negro as one of the ethnicity choices on the census form. The first comment on the post was by a person who was adopted as a child. This person discusses an issue that some adopted people have - they are not sure of their ethnicity. I have to admit that I never imagined this kind of issue. The problem is that some adoption records are sealed by court order, which prevents the adopted person from knowing anything about their real parents. You can see the blog post here:

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It's an unfortunate predicament that adopted children are put in when it comes to completing the Census. I understand that it is important to know the ethnicity of our U.S. citizens, and hopefully changes will soon be made that will assist adopted children to find out what their ethnicity is.Reblog U.S. 2010 Census

Rwandan Genocide

I recently saw the movie Hotel Rwanda for a Political Science class, prior to watching this movie I was unsure the details about this incident, now I cleary see that whether or not this was defined at the time as "genocide" it was. The fact that president Clinton commented that one of his biggest regrets was not intervening and helping in Rwanda should serve as reminder to American citizens that if something like this should ever happen again we should intervene. This incident that occurred in 1994 should have been considered genocide, why we did not consider it genocide is still something that I guess I will never completely understand, as I watched this movie and what these people went through I’m baffled as to why we did not get involved. To what extent were we “the U.S.” willing to wait before we did consider it genocide? If the death of over five hundred thousand Tutsi’s and Hutu’s was not enough I just don’t understand how many more deaths we were going to allow, even after all of those deaths we still did nothing to help Rwanda with a recovery of such a dreadful incident. Here's a video to moreless give you an idea of what went on during the Rwandan genocide.Genocide