Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100401:13:48:00
So in the 2000 census form, that check box had exactly those labels. it had black, african-american, or negro. and the surprise of the 2000 census was in addition to checking that box there were about 50,000 people who went down and wrote in the open-ended space the word "negro." they really wanted to, we inferred, to have that recorded. we analyzed the age distribution of those folks, and over half of them were less than 45 years of age. this was a surprise to us. now, the last decade there wasn't research done on this in the same way. i regret that. i think there should have been some resear...
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