bpwallace49 Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Eye Opener: Group wants southerners to put 'Confederate Southern American' on the Census Happy Friday! With roughly one week until census forms are due, a group of Confederate rights activists is urging southerners with Confederate ancestors to declare themselves "Confederate Southern Americans" on census forms in order to qualify for national origin protection under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Federal law makes it illegal to discriminate because of a person's birthplace, ancestry, culture or language. The South North Carolina-based Southern Legal Resource Center believes that people with ancestors who were citizens of the Confederate States of America should be entitled to ethnic identity and protection since the country no longer exists. Question 9 of the census form asks respondents to identify their race and lists White, Black/African American/Negro, American Indian, Native Alaskan, Japanese and Korean as options, among others. But it also leaves a box with 19 blank spaces for anyone who wants to write in another race not listed. "Fill in 'Confed Southern Am.' ... This will put your Confederate nationality on the record. It's just that simple," SLRC Chief Trial Counsel Kirk D. Lyons says in a video posted on YouTube (see above) and Facebook. Lyons continues: "We can start the process to give the southern community here in America a voice again, so that our concerns will be heard, and so that we will stop being harassed and persecuted because we are proud of our southern and Confederate ancestry." The group has defended teachers and other activists who have been fired or disciplined in other ways for refusing to remove the Confederate flag from classrooms and other public places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Damn straight! Minority status baby. About time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mucca Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Do I qualify, my parents were born in Alabama? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Waiting for TimC.... (as in whistling Dixie) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliaz Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Damn straight! Minority status baby. About time Hell yeah! White power baby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimC Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 I'd rather put down the category of "I hate all people redneck, white trash, black, Mexican, Oriental, Southern Europe including France, the commies, the Nazis, the Catholics and the Muslims, children and old people and everone not listed..." Too long for the form? Can I just draw a picture of me shaking my cane telling people to get off my lawn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clubfoothead Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Can I just draw a picture of me shaking my cane telling people to get off my lawn? I recall a hand-written sign in Norfolk Vargina that said "Your dog can $hit on my lawn, no sailors". I always meant to go back and drop a deuce in his lawn but never did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Should've. It'd have been the Hampton Roads kinda thing to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clubfoothead Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Should've. It'd have been the Hampton Roads kinda thing to do. The house was in technically in Vargina Beach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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