The Census and the Constitution

Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States of America (in part):

The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.

Enough said.

Every household should fill out the census. It is used for the legitimate and lawful purpose of determining the apportionment of the Congress. If you don't like the question about race, write in "American" or any thing else truthful, but fill it out. It's a legitimate exercise of the Congress' authority.

A Post-Racial Census

WC Varones encourages us to list our race as American on the next census, linking to a an article on HotAir encouraging the same. I wholeheartedly agree, and likewise agree its wrong to simply lie about it. It's time to expunge racial differences from our vocabularies and thought processes. Racial politics is the poison in the well of civil discourse in this nation; crying "racism" has supplanted patriotism as the last refuge of scoundrels.