Mixed Racial In America Research Paper

Mixed racial in America:
Should we still have racial classifications in the U.S.
Allan B. Clements II English Composition II
Jason Romero
29, July 2013

Mixed racial in America:
Should we still have racial classifications in the U.S.? In the U.S. today the biggest growing population is a mixed race, they have been growing over the decades scenes. The Supreme Court struck down the law that prevented interracial marriage in 1967. Which gave way for interracial marriage, in time I feel there will not be black, white, red, yellow, or tan it will be mixed as we all are. In 2000, the U.S. allowed people to enter more than one race, when asked about it. This allowed the Census to get a more accurate view of the mixed raced people living
It will be a mixture of the races and then we will not need to have tag or categories for the people that live in the United States. As the mixed race people grow, what will the government do and will they add to the race category. If the government follows, the way they have been doing business over the years, it will try to find a way to make them fit into a category to benefit the government. The one thing in the racial tags, as Nuttgens S. (2010) says in his paper “Biracial Identity Theory and Research Juxtaposed with Narrative Accounts of a Biracial Individual” If you have one drop of black blood in you no matter what your skin color is that you are black. This is what we are dealing with mixed racial people. The government in 2000’ started to recognize the mixed racial people as they let them check more than one box on the Censes, and know on applications when you are applying for
Will this come about I believe that it will. We as Americans are becoming a more accepting nation as we grow further into a multiracial nation we will find ourselves with no one race but a multitude of people with more than one race and ethnic background. From all the research that I have done I have found that we will need to look at this as a good thing, even though not all of the people of this nation will see it this way. I have found that the groups that are fighting for the multiracial people are doing a great job in helping them in their fight. I have also seen that the mono racial groups have not been very helpful when it comes to the multiracial issues, as they would not support them in their fight. I am of Native American, And European background; I do identify myself as such as with anyone of mixed race or ethical background should. We should be proud of who we are and never be ashamed of being mixed. In the modern world of today, we are more accepted today than we were 20 years ago, or back in the 50 and 60’s. When it come to the question that posed at the start of this paper do we need to continue to use the racial tags that the government makes us use in our everyday life, are they really necessary and relevant to our world today. This is the question, which we all as Americans need to ask ourselves, and find out