Controversy has erupted because the United States Census Bureau continues to include "Negro" as a racial designation on its census forms. The Census Bureau is gearing up to mail out the forms for its once-a-decade nationwide count. The forms traditionally include questions about household income, ages of occupants, and race. Under this year's question, "what is this person's race?", choices include "Black, African Am., or negro". The inclusion of a word that is now practically only found in the names of one our oldest civic organizations, The United Negro College Fund, has drawn the ire of some civil rights organizations. Personally, I usually respond with curiosity whenever someone uses the term "negro" to describe someone's race; utterance of the term "colored" elicits the same reaction as would the appearance of the now-extinct Do Do bird. The Census Bureau is toying with deleting the term along with deleting or rearranging several other questions about race and ethnicity.
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