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About
CARIBID2010
As Caribbean Americans we are virtually invisible to the U.S. Census
Bureau. This translates to no accurate count of this community and
the dismissal of the marketplace as the powerful niche market we all
know it is; since we have to real numbers to prove our economic
strength.
CaribWorldNews, Hard Beat Communications, the Caribbean Immigrant Services, several
organizations, community leaders, media owners and individuals
across the U.S. have teamed up to launch `CaribID 2010,` a campaign to simply and
forcefully urge the U.S. Census to allow Caribbean nationals/West
Indians to be counted as a 17th category on the Census
form in 2010.
The call to action is for every Caribbean national in this the
United States to STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. This means that every
national will be sought to become the ambassador in getting the
message out and ensuring our voices are raised in unison.
This historic initiative from Hard Beat is a concerted focused
effort and its not about the ego of any one group, association or
individual. This is about the big picture and the big goal of
getting Caribbean Americans counted where it matters – in getting
recognition politically and being viewed as the economic power they
are.
Of course it’s not going to be an overnight thing but we’re going to
start a long over due movement and stay the course and get this done
as a representative group for us and our children and their
children.
So that like Asians, Hispanics and African Americans we too can be
truly counted and our strength measured.
For we have no other identifying factor but West Indian since we are
a huge ethnic melting pot of ethnicities and like the people of Guam
and Hawaii, we too need our very own Census category.
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