tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post8599675901448129284..comments2024-02-15T05:08:32.917-06:00Comments on Cliff's Crib: Fill Out The Form And Send The Damn Thing BackCliftonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389032037779987856noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-40451504787662701912010-03-07T03:34:18.896-06:002010-03-07T03:34:18.896-06:00It's especially important for African-American...It's especially important for African-Americans to fill out their forms because the census system is rigged against them in an unpublicized way. Here's how it works:<br /><br />Black males are incarcerated in disproportionate numbers and typically imprisoned in areas with a heavy white population. For census purposes, the prisoners are counted as being residents of that area. There's a surface logic to this until you consider that it factors into Congressional redistricting and federal aid.<br /> <br />Thus, a young man from the South Bronx in jail at Sing Sing gets counted in the calculations of federal aid that goes to Ossining instead of his neighborhood in the Bronx. Ossining is 70% white and 14% African-American, and you can guess where most of them live. It's not that the people of Ossining don't deserve federal aid, but they are getting some of it at the expense of urban black families and neighborhoods. In red states, you have black men involuntarily helping to carve out red districts for right-wing congressman who hardly represent their best interests.<br /><br />So, you're right: Fill out the form. It's the one action African-Americans can take to counteract what I've written about here.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8075448.post-81152808199593895902010-03-06T09:56:30.870-06:002010-03-06T09:56:30.870-06:00I hope all the insurance cheaters don't skip f...I hope all the insurance cheaters don't skip filling it out thinking they'll get busted.<br /><br />Not that I have any sympathy for those folks. I'd be all in favor of checkpoints where it turns out you have a Louisiana license and Texas plates and they just confiscate your car on the spot. No problem with that what so ever. Especially if the start out on Poydras with a preference of Lexus (Lexi?) and BMWs. <br /><br />Because every one of those folks are driving my rates through the roof.Mark Folsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16813261450396857232noreply@blogger.com