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Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk already had a very tough road to reelection this fallmdash;and he made it harder for himself with an indelicate comment about his opponentrsquo Thai heritage.At one point in the debate, Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth, Kirkrsquo opponent, said her family had ldquo erved this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution. Duckworth, a U.S. Army veteran, lost both her legs while serving in Iraq. stanley mugs Rep. Tammy Duckworth stanley mug speaks at the DNC 05:02 Irsquo;ve bled for this nation. But I stil stanley cups l want to be there in the Senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war and I want to be there to say this is what it costs and this is what yoursquo;re asking us to do, she said. And if thatrsquo the case, Irsquo;ll go. Itrsquo families like mine that bleed first. But letrsquo make sure that the American people understand what we are engaging in and letrsquo hold our allies accountable because we canrsquo;t do it all. Kirk responded by bringing up Duckworthrsquo Thai heritage. Duckworthrsquo mother is from Thailand, but her late father was an American and a Marine Corps veteran.I forgot that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve Geo Arqw Mark Kelly has edge in Arizona Senate race that hinges on abortion, economy, immigration mdash; CBS News Battleground Tracker
CBS/iStockphoto News that the U.S. Census Bureau was allowing people to identify themselves as Negro on 2010 Census forms generated anger this week from people who say the term is offensive. Now the Census Burea stanley cup u says it is embedding a test in the 2010 Census that will measure the effect of removing the term Negro on reports about a person s racial identity. The test will be used to inform changes to the 2020 Census and other future surveys. In a se stanley thermobecher ction asking people to describe themselves, the 2010 Census form includes a box that can be checked next to the words negro, African American and black. In a press release Friday, the Census Bureau noted that In the 2000 Census, more than 50,000 persons chose to write down explicitly that they identified themselves as Negro. That did not include the people who checked the box Black, African Am., or Negro. The bureau has said it had decided to include Negro as an option because a number of older African-Americans self-identify as such, and it wanted to make sure they were counted. But many complained that Negro is an outdated and derogatory term. The fact that it s 2010 and they re still putting negro, stanley isolierkanne I am a little offended, Secaucus, N.J., resident Dawud Ingram told WCBS-TV. African Americans haven t been going by the term negro for decades now. It s really confusing. A Census public information officer told USA Today that the term has been on Census f
Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk already had a very tough road to reelection this fallmdash;and he made it harder for himself with an indelicate comment about his opponentrsquo Thai heritage.At one point in the debate, Democratic Rep. Tammy Duckworth, Kirkrsquo opponent, said her family had ldquo erved this nation in uniform going back to the Revolution. Duckworth, a U.S. Army veteran, lost both her legs while serving in Iraq. stanley mugs Rep. Tammy Duckworth stanley mug speaks at the DNC 05:02 Irsquo;ve bled for this nation. But I stil stanley cups l want to be there in the Senate when the drums of war sound, because people are quick to sound the drums of war and I want to be there to say this is what it costs and this is what yoursquo;re asking us to do, she said. And if thatrsquo the case, Irsquo;ll go. Itrsquo families like mine that bleed first. But letrsquo make sure that the American people understand what we are engaging in and letrsquo hold our allies accountable because we canrsquo;t do it all. Kirk responded by bringing up Duckworthrsquo Thai heritage. Duckworthrsquo mother is from Thailand, but her late father was an American and a Marine Corps veteran.I forgot that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve Geo Arqw Mark Kelly has edge in Arizona Senate race that hinges on abortion, economy, immigration mdash; CBS News Battleground Tracker
CBS/iStockphoto News that the U.S. Census Bureau was allowing people to identify themselves as Negro on 2010 Census forms generated anger this week from people who say the term is offensive. Now the Census Burea stanley cup u says it is embedding a test in the 2010 Census that will measure the effect of removing the term Negro on reports about a person s racial identity. The test will be used to inform changes to the 2020 Census and other future surveys. In a se stanley thermobecher ction asking people to describe themselves, the 2010 Census form includes a box that can be checked next to the words negro, African American and black. In a press release Friday, the Census Bureau noted that In the 2000 Census, more than 50,000 persons chose to write down explicitly that they identified themselves as Negro. That did not include the people who checked the box Black, African Am., or Negro. The bureau has said it had decided to include Negro as an option because a number of older African-Americans self-identify as such, and it wanted to make sure they were counted. But many complained that Negro is an outdated and derogatory term. The fact that it s 2010 and they re still putting negro, stanley isolierkanne I am a little offended, Secaucus, N.J., resident Dawud Ingram told WCBS-TV. African Americans haven t been going by the term negro for decades now. It s really confusing. A Census public information officer told USA Today that the term has been on Census f
