Comment on Burnham signals support for bill to make ‘Black English’ and ‘Asian English’ census options
idealism_nearby@lemmy.world 1 day agoI mean you pretty much said it yourself, the census says “White: English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British”. It doesn’t differentiate between these groups. One of them is literally 3 of them stuck together.
mlcgdrhu@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Let’s say I agree (I don’t)… Then what is “Black English”?
flamingos@feddit.uk 1 day ago
A black person who is English? Do you think a person who was born in England, speaks English with a regional accent, eats English food, and practices English customs can’t call themselves English because they can’t trace an arbitrary amount of their DNA to the Normans?
idealism_nearby@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Again, literally not even in your source
mlcgdrhu@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
What is the title of this post on Lemmy? This must be a wind up.
idealism_nearby@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
A bill to add census options that do not currently exist.
Further evidence that ethnicity is made up.