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Here’s Why The Census Bureau May Be In Your Neighborhood Before The 2020 Count Starting this month, tens of thousands of Census Bureau workers are knocking on doors across the country to make sure the bureau has a complete list of addresses of where people live in the U.S. Those addresses determine where the bureau will mail instructions and send the next major deployment of workers in 2020 for the constitutionally mandated head count of every resident, which is conducted by household.
This canvassing for addresses is expected to be the most visible onthe-ground preparation to date for the upcoming 2020 census, which is set to officially kick off in remote
parts of Alaska in January before rolling out to the rest of the country by April. Carrying laptops and black messenger bags, around 50,000 temporary Census Bureau employees known as "listers" are expected to comb through neighborhoods through October, mainly in the evening and during the weekend, to verify more than 50 million addresses — or about a third of all of the country's home addresses. The bureau has created a map to show which neighborhoods it plans to visit in person. For the other addresses, the bureau agency has been using satellite images from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Department of Agriculture and DigitalGlobe, a private company, to check for new homes and other changes in neighborhoods from computer screens at the bureau's headquarters in Suitland, Md. By comparing bird's-eye view images from around 2010 with more current ones, the bureau has been verifying home addresses it has compiled from the U.S. Postal Service, as well as tribal, state and local governments. It's a method that makes sense for rural areas where many single-family homes are difficult to reach in person, says Wenlin Liu, the chief economist for the state of Wyoming. "Many of the roads are not paved, so you may miss some ranch roads," Liu explains. "Many of our communities live in open grassland, plains areas, so for the satellite image, you can clearly identify." Relying more on satellite images for the 2020 count than for past censuses is also expected to help the bureau cut down on the cost of sending workers to verify addresses — one of the most expensive parts of conducting a census, along with deploying door knockers to interview households that don't respond to questionnaires themselves.
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All Women Caucus Board in CALIFORNIA
Panelists Jovanka Beckles, Taisha Brown, Jasmyne Cannick and Dallas Fowler and Progressive Caucus Chair Amar Shergill.
Black Women Focus of Discussion At Meeting of California Democratic Party Leaders The California Democratic Party, the largest Democratic Party organization outside of Washington, D.C., held a candid discussion with Black women about Black women and the Democratic Party at its summer executive board meeting in San Jose Saturday. Hosted by the Party’s Progressive Caucus, over 200 people, including newly elected Party chair Rusty Hicks listened intently as a panel of Black women from around California discussed their continued disappointment in how the Party treats its most loyal voting block. Panelists included Democratic activist and two-term Richmond City Councilmember Jovanka Beckles, San Diego resident and African American Caucus Chair Taisha Brown and Los Angeles City Council candidate and Democratic activist Dallas Fowler. The panel was moderated by Democratic activist and political commentator Jasmyne Cannick. “Black women have been the most loyal and effective Democrats across the country for decades,”
explained Progressive Caucus Chair Amar Shergill. “However, if we are honest with ourselves, the Party has been taking that support for granted. The Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party decided to host this panel and invite our Party leaders to listen because it is imperative that we renew our commitment to supporting and electing Black women.” The panel started with moderator Jasmyne Cannick admitting like many other Black women she had one foot in the Democratic Party and one foot out because of the Party’s response to the deaths of two Black gay men of crystal meth overdoeses in the home of one of the Party’s major donors. “At the time of Gemmel Moore’s death our chair was good friends with Ed Buck and because of that this Party said and did nothing. I decided I didn’t want to belong to a Party that doesn’t value our lives,” she told the audience. “But rather than leave, I decided to stay and get involved because the Democratic Party gets the majority of our [Black women] votes and it’s time we discuss our return on our investment with our votes to this Party.” CONT.PG 6
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46% of whites worry becoming a majorityminority nation will 'weaken American culture,' survey says
Almost half of white Americans say the USA becoming a majority nonwhite nation would "weaken American customs and values," a new Pew Research Center survey says.
political, economic and societal changes that could come by 2050. Pew did not define "American customs and values" or "American culture" for the survey.
percent of Hispanics say the shift would strengthen those customs and values. "The finding speaks for itself. It suggests concern broadly held by whites about a majority-minority country," says Rich Morin, a senior editor at Pew Research Center. The survey of 2,524 U.S. adults conducted in December focused on Americans' view of the future of the country and asked about
Roughly 40 percent of Americans say the shift to a majority nonwhite country wouldn't be good or bad, and more than one-third say it would be good. Roughly half of Americans say a majority nonwhite population would lead to more racial and ethnic conflict, according to the survey. Cont. pg. 7
Will a majority-minority country be good? Americans The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that before 2050, the divided majority of the USA will be made up of minority More than half of Americans say they are at least populations. According to Pew's research, 46 percent of somewhat optimistic for the future of the USA, but when white people fear that would weaken U.S. culture. they're asked about specific issues – national debt, A quarter of Hispanics and 18 percent of black people affordable health care, environmental degradation, have similar fears. Forty percent of blacks and 46 political divisions – a grimmer picture emerges.
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SDMNEWS Must Event Dr Runoko Rashidi returns to WorldBeat Center for a special presentation on the “Afrikan Presence in Latin America” Runoko Rashidi is an anthropologist and historian with a major focus on what he calls the Global African Presence–that is, Africans outside of Africa before and after enslavement. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, the most recent of which are My Global Journeys in Search of the African Presence and AssataGarvey and Me: A Global African Journey for Children in 2017. His other works include Black Star: The African Presence in Early Europe, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2011 and African Star over Asia: The Black Presence in the East, published by Books of Africa in London in November 2012 and revised and reprinted in April 2013 and Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers, published by Books of Africa in 2015. His other works include the African Presence in Early Asia, coedited by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima. Four of Runoko’s works have been published in French. As a traveler and researcher Dr. Rashidi has visited 120 countries. As a lecturer and presenter, he has spoken in sixty-five countries. Runoko has worked with and under some of the most distinguished scholars of our generation, including Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard, Edward Scobie, John G. Jackson, Jan Carew and Yosef ben-Jochannan. In 2005 Rashidi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree by the Amen-Ra Theological Seminary in Los Angeles. In October 1987 Rashidi inaugurated the First All-India Dalit Writer’s Conference in Hyderabad, India. In 1999 he was the major keynote speaker at the International Reunion of the African Family in Latin America in Barlovento, Venezuela. In August 2010 he was first keynote speaker at the First Global Black Nationalities Conference in Osogbo, Nigeria. In December 2010 he was President and first speaker at the Diaspora Forum at the FESMAN Conference in Dakar, Senegal. He is currently pursuing a major work on the African presence in the museums of the world. As a tour leader he has taken groups to India, Australia, Fiji, Turkey, Jordan, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Togo, Benin, France, Belgium, England, Cote d’Ivoire, Namibia, Ethiopia, Mexico, Luxembourg, Germany, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Spain, Morocco, Senegal, the Gambia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar.
Runoko Rashidi’s major mission in life is the uplift of African people, those at home and those abroad. He is the official Traveling Ambassador for Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. For more information write to Runoko@hotmail.com His web site is www.drrunoko.com
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Other topics that were addressed by the panel included the lack of support by the California Democratic Party for Black women candidates with panelists all agreeing that there is little support for Black women when they run for office. Cannick, who is running for Los Angeles County Democratic Party’s County Central Committee in Assembly District 53 which includes Boyle Heights, Downtown Los Angeles, East L.A. and Koreatown and is less than 3 percent African-American, talked about the lack of Black women elected as Party delegates if they are not coming from traditional Black areas and the lack of support of the elected leaders who represent those areas for Black women.
“It’s racism,” responded Jovanka Beckles, who recently ran as a Democrat to represent California’s 15th Assembly District and received over 46 percent of the vote to her white female Democratic opponent. “It’s unconscious racism. I ran for Assembly District 15 and I found it so fascinating that there were literally signs in yards that said Black Lives Matter and yet they also had signs for my opponent — a white woman. We’re talking about the unconsciousness of racism. You can’t say Black Lives Matter and not support a Black woman who has been doing this work for a long time within your own community. You can’t say Black Lives Matter and you don’t support those Black women who are running for office.” Taisha Brown, chair of the Party’s African American Caucus explained that Black women can lead and represent areas that are not traditionally Black. “With gentrification I don’t even think there are any Black communities in California anymore — at least not in San Diego,” she told the audience. “It’s very mixed. I happen to believe that Black women can serve all white communities, all Latino communities — all Asian communities. READ MORE WWW.SDMONITONEWS.COM
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The San Diego Monitor White Americans make up more than half of the country's population, according to the Census Bureau. The bureau predicts the year 2044 will be when minorities make up the majority. In 2060, minorities will be 56 percent of the U.S. population, the Census Bureau predicts. Study: A race gap in air pollution – whites largely cause it; blacks and Hispanics breathe it More: Hate group count hits 20-year high amid rise in white supremacy, report says A quarter of white Americans say having a majority-minority country would be good, as do more than half of blacks and Hispanics (53 percent and 55 percent, respectively). Fifty-three percent of white Americans say it would lead to more conflict between racial and ethnic groups compared with 43 percent of nonwhites who say the same. Rise of anti-immigrant sentiments Anti-immigration and nationalistic actions and rhetoric have been on the rise in the USA and Europe in recent years, and debates over immigration persist in the news. This week, the Pentagon listed what projects might be delayed to pay for President Donald Trump's border wall. Trump and Republicans say the wall is necessary to
combat what the president calls a "humanitarian crisis" at the border. Democrats called his declaration of a national emergency a political stunt. A man with extremist anti-immigration views is accused of firing on two mosques last week in New Zealand, killing 50 people and wounding dozens. In the USA last year, a gunman killed 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue on the Sabbath. The suspect has expressed anti-Semitic, antiimmigration sentiments. Anti-immigrant views are nothing new in the USA, even as historical circumstances change, and often look similar across periods, says Jack DeWaard, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota who studies demography and migration. More: Number of undocumented immigrants in USA falls to 12-year low, researchers say More: These 25 cities are losing more residents than they are gaining as population declines "What seems to be different is there's sort of a politics of fear and resentment," DeWaard says. "The issue of migration has become so much more politicized, hijacked and divorced from facts and reason than it ever has in the past."
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