Comments for Census Count http://censuscount.com News and Information related to the 2010 census of the United States Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Mission District Major Focus of 2010 Census – San Francisco Chronicle (blog) by Mara http://censuscount.com/2010/01/05/mission-district-major-focus-of-2010-census-san-francisco-chronicle-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Mara Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:29:18 +0000 http://censuscount.com/2010/01/05/mission-district-major-focus-of-2010-census-san-francisco-chronicle-blog/#comment-280 Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races. Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.” How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be? Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”. It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops. Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”. Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society. If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself. I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed. Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races.

Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.”

How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be?

Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”.

It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops.

Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”.

Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society.

If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself.

I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed.

]]> Comment on The Term ‘Negro’ on 2010 Census Form Sparks Controversy – KYW1060.com by Mara http://censuscount.com/2010/03/17/the-term-negro-on-2010-census-form-sparks-controversy-kyw1060-com/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Mara Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:34:03 +0000 http://censuscount.com/2010/03/17/the-term-negro-on-2010-census-form-sparks-controversy-kyw1060-com/#comment-279 Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races. Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.” How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be? Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”. It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops. Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”. Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society. If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself. I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed. Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races.

Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.”

How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be?

Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”.

It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops.

Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”.

Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society.
If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself.

I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed.

]]> Comment on Census 2010 can count on controversy – CNN by Mara http://censuscount.com/2010/01/04/census-2010-can-count-on-controversy-cnn/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Mara Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:46:38 +0000 http://censuscount.com/2010/01/04/census-2010-can-count-on-controversy-cnn/#comment-273 Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races. Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.” How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be? Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”. It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops. Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”. Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society. If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself. I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed. Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races.

Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.”

How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be?
Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”.

It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops.

Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”.

Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society.

If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself.

I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed.

]]> Comment on The Pulse, 02/21/2010: 2010 Census comes to town – 95.5 WBRU News by Robert Allen http://censuscount.com/2010/02/21/the-pulse-02212010-2010-census-comes-to-town-95-5-wbru-news/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Robert Allen Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:01:47 +0000 http://censuscount.com/2010/02/21/the-pulse-02212010-2010-census-comes-to-town-95-5-wbru-news/#comment-159 Just what this god-damn Kleptocry needs. To know more of everybody fukin' what ever. Forget it. the NAZI's Won the war Hilter died at age 73, in "The Miramen Grand Hotel in Argentina. The rest of the eugentics people moved to the US and became republicans. Now they run the, "LAME STREAM MEDIA". Just what this god-damn Kleptocry needs.
To know more of everybody fukin’ what ever.
Forget it. the NAZI’s Won the war
Hilter died at age 73, in “The Miramen Grand Hotel in Argentina.
The rest of the eugentics people moved to the US and became republicans. Now they run the, “LAME STREAM MEDIA”.

]]> Comment on 2010 Census Jobs are Now Available in Your Community – California Chronicle by Frank http://censuscount.com/2009/12/18/2010-census-jobs-are-now-available-in-your-community-california-chronicle/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Frank Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:07:07 +0000 http://censuscount.com/2009/12/18/2010-census-jobs-are-now-available-in-your-community-california-chronicle/#comment-92 How I love california, had the most fun of my life there :) How I love california, had the most fun of my life there :)

]]> Comment on 2010 Census Challenge: Counting Young Black Men – Washington Informer by Tom_Pi http://censuscount.com/2009/12/13/2010-census-challenge-counting-young-black-men-washington-informer/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Tom_Pi Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:38:36 +0000 http://censuscount.com/2009/12/13/2010-census-challenge-counting-young-black-men-washington-informer/#comment-83 hey good post and i also like your page layout too. Bookmarked your site and will stop by again hey good post and i also like your page layout too. Bookmarked your site and will stop by again

]]> Comment on Census, With draftfcb, to Blanket Country With $300 Million Push – AdAge.com (subscription) by alyssa http://censuscount.com/2009/09/27/census-with-draftfcb-to-blanket-country-with-300-million-push-adage-com-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-2 alyssa Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:35:26 +0000 http://censuscount.com/2009/09/27/census-with-draftfcb-to-blanket-country-with-300-million-push-adage-com-subscription/#comment-2 no matter how hard they try I dont think they will ever get everyone counted in a census. There best bet is to count all the members of social media sites, pretty soon everyone in the world will be on social media sites. I think it would be wrong for them to use are info this way, but I guess census data is prett important for some reason no matter how hard they try I dont think they will ever get everyone counted in a census.

There best bet is to count all the members of social media sites, pretty soon everyone in the world will be on social media sites.

I think it would be wrong for them to use are info this way, but I guess census data is prett important for some reason

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