“This is a break-the-glass moment for the U.S. #Census. If they stop counting at the end of next month like the Administration plans, it would lock in extra political power and federal funding for whites in the suburbs for a decade. 1/5
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It would deprive whites in rural areas, everyone in cities, Native Americans, Blacks, LatinX and renters of that same power and money. 2/5
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The effects go well beyond political manipulation to strike at who counts as an American. Since 1790 the #Census has been a building block to our democracy. 3/5
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Locking in the undercount of Blacks and Native American harkens back to that first #Census, when enslaved people counted as 3/5 of a person, and Native Americans were not counted at all." @AABeveridge, president and founder of Social Explorer. #Census2020 4/5
U.S. Constitution Article 1, Section 2 "their respective Numbers.. shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons ... and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons." #1619Project
@idabaewells #Census2020 5/5
@idabaewells #Census2020 5/5
