ETA: it has a small box for "race".... What do I answer?

Is there a reason why you wouldn't put down "Non-Hispanic White" or "Caucasian" (depending on what categories the form has)?

that was my last US address]

ETA: it has a small box for "race". Do I have to answer?

11225

ETA: if race is optional, do what you want. otherwise, do what you want.

ETA: Yes, Brooklyn is Kings County.

I'm Canadian. I'm not used to declaring race. Nobody here ever asks that. It's like asking religion: it's irrelavent here.
anyway, it's a really small box with room for like one letter,

I'm Canadian. I'm not used to declaring race. Nobody here ever asks that. It's like asking religion: it's irrelavent here.
anyway, it's a really small box with room for like one letter, the same size as the box for "sex" [I assume they mean gender]

Your query is not complete.

Did you mean:
287 Ocean Ave, Lynbrook, NY 11563
287 Ocean Ave, Brooklyn, Kings, NY 11225
287 Ocean Ave, Massapequa Park, Nassau, NY 11762
287 Ocean Ave, Islip, Suffolk, NY 11751
287 Ocean Ave, Lawrence, Nassau, NY 11559
287 Ocean Ave, Northport, Suffolk, NY 11768
287 Ocean Ave, Amityville, Suffolk, NY 11701
287 Ocean Ave, Brentwood, Suffolk, NY 11717

thanks.
i'm not sure if race is optional, it just has a space for it and it says to enter the information.

Eh, I was just joking that it sounded like you were having some confusion over what race you are.

I think it is optional (is there a option for "other"? I think there is)

What made you decide now after all these years to vote?

the one in Brooklyn near Crown Heights across from Prospect Park

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v336/mel...nt=DSC02603.jpg

You could be a nudnik and write 'Yes' next to race or next to sex write 'Yes' or 'No'

I vote in federal elections. I've done it before. but the way these things work is they first send me a postcard to fill out, an application that comes automatically every 4 years. So I fill out the application and then they send me a federal ballot. They don't send the ballot automatically, just the application for the ballot.
I had photocopied the application and just copy the information each time, but I can't find it so I'm starting from scratch.

I vote in federal elections. I've done it before. but the way these things work is they first send me a postcard to fill out, an application that comes automatically every 4 years. So I fill out the application and then they send me a federal ballot. They don't send the ballot automatically, just the application for the ballot.
I had photocopied the application and just copy the information each time, but I can't find it so I'm starting from scratch.

What if you're a Jew from South Africa, Kenya or Zimbabwe that now lives in the US-- sounds African-American to me...it's all perception. Would a Jew born in Shanghai during WWII write down Asian?

I had faith in the melech filing system

Shoot! The idiot that I am I just sealed the envelope without photocopying the applicant. Duh!

Hey, I'm not proud of this.
But I did find my passport number and SS number in the computer file where I saved both scans.

If it's an official envelope- steam it open.

If you're ethnic Jewish you can check "other" for race, ethnic Jews are recognized as a separate race by fed.gov.

That's not true. And what's fed.gov? All I get is a blank screen when I click on it.

Open the files (of such important docs) are password protected with a password you remember. (we have to many codes, passwords, logins these days!)

Yeah. I have a file with scans of all our passports and birth certificates etc etc etc. Very useful. Even a photo of my ketuvah. Ya never know.

maybe he didn't mean a website, but rather fed. [space] gov -i.e. the Federal Government

The five racial categories as revised by the Office of Management and Budget are defined below:

American Indian or Alaska Native. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.

Asian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. Terms such as “Haitian” or “Negro” can be used in addition to “Black” or “African American.”

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

White. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa.

Well, it doesn't matter what he meant, because he's still wrong. Here's a form with the Federal government's definition of races:

That's not true. And what's fed.gov? All I get is a blank screen when I click on it.

Well, it doesn't matter what he meant, because he's still wrong. Here's a form with the Federal government's definition of races:

Fed.gov is the federal government. And it is true, there was a discrimination case filed about 20 years ago by a secular Jew that went to SCOTUS and established that Jews are a race. And the fed.gov definition of 'white' is just wrong, it's political and not scientific. FYI fed.gov also says Uzbekistan is in Europe...
Funny how 50 years ago birth certificates said "Hebrew" when it was a Jewish child.

Eli

Fed.gov is the federal government

And it is true, there was a discrimination case filed about 20 years ago by a secular Jew that went to SCOTUS and established that Jews are a race.

And the fed.gov definition of \'white\' is just wrong, it\'s political and not scientific.

The fact that the label of Hispanic has increasingly been used in forms and surveys under the category of Race, has led to an uproar of criticism. \"The term Hispanic, and its cousin Latino, are used blithely all the time, often in the same breath with the other strictly racial categories\" [15] writes Alfredo Tryferis, a columnist for the online periodical Raw Story who describes himself as an Argentine who is racially white.

For Krum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28class...human_beings%29

I'm Canadian. I'm not used to declaring race. Nobody here ever asks that. It's like asking religion: it's irrelavent here.

And it is true, there was a discrimination case filed about 20 years ago by a secular Jew that went to SCOTUS and established that Jews are a race.

it's political and not scientific.

Funny how 50 years ago birth certificates said "Hebrew" when it was a Jewish child.

I've definitely been asked to declare my race on forms in Canada in the last couple of years, just probably not on government related forms. Large employers in Canada absolutely collect such information from their employees (so they can provide the government with statistics on the diversity of their workforce).

Definitely not a government forms, in my experience. I can't remember EVER having been asked race. Never.

And if I were asked on an employer's form, I would find that incredibly bizarre and even invasive.

That's an old joke.

It's NO joke. I have several friends who went to college for free because of their "ethnicity".....

I know this is really dumb, but can someone please tell me the zip code for 287 Ocean Avenue in NY?

[I'm trying to fill out an application for an absentee ballot and that was my last US address]

ETA: it has a small box for "race". They do that in the US??? Do I have to answer? What do I answer?

ETA: is that Kings County?

It's NO joke. I have several friends who went to college for free because of their "ethnicity".....

That's nice, because it's geneivah on so many levels.

Why is it "Genivah"? One of them was really "African American", and the other Hispanic.

If they want to be so politically correct that they can't say black or white, they deserve whatever they get......

That's sophistry. "African American" means black and everybody knows it. It does not literally mean a person of any race who was born in Africa. Arabs from Egypt are not African American any more than Jews from South Africa. To exploit the literal meaning is geneivat da'at because the person who is reading the application believes the applicant to be black, when he's not. And it's plain geneiva of money because he's taking a scholarship (money) that he's not entitled to, and he's taking it out of the hands of a person who almost certainly needs it more than he does.

Using PC terminology such as "African-American" is sophistry.