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Redistricting fight over who is Black in Louisiana voting map : NPR

Since a 2003 ruling by the Supreme Court, that definition of "Black" has included every person who identifies as Black on census forms — including people who check off the boxes for Black and any other racial or ethnic category such as white, Asian and Hispanic or Latino, which the federal government considers to be an ethnicity that can be of any race.

Republican state officials, however, have called for narrower definitions of Blackness that do not include people who also identify with another minority group.

Citing no evidence, GOP officials in Alabama argued in lower court filings that limiting the definition to people who mark just the "Black" box and do not identify as Latino for the census would be "most defensible."

And in the Louisiana case — Ardoin v. Robinson — officials have been arguing for the definition to only include people who check off either just the "Black" box or both "Black" and "White" and do not identify as Latino.

Prohibit Government from Charging User fees

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I think we need a constitutional amendment that prohibits all levels of government from charging user fees.💰

By banning user fees, then government would get out of the business of providing services best offered by the private sector. Without user fees, all services offered by the government would be free and available to the public without discrimination.

Private corporations should be in the business of selling products and services. The government in contrast should be in the business of serving the people.

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Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police | Electronic Frontier Foundation

A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace.

The company, Fog Data Science, has claimed in marketing materials that it has “billions” of data points about “over 250 million” devices and that its data can be used to learn about where its subjects work, live, and associate. Fog sells access to this data via a web application, called Fog Reveal, that lets customers point and click to access detailed histories of regular people’s lives. This panoptic surveillance apparatus is offered to state highway patrols, local police departments, and county sheriffs across the country for less than $10,000 per year.

Honestly, I think if you need to call yourself honorable then I think your a dishonorable person.

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Honestly, I think if you feel the need to call yourself honorable then I think your a dishonorable person. 🤔

Government service isn’t honorable, putting food on your family’s table and providing for your household needs without a government hand out is honorable. If government work is how you do it, then God Bless, but don’t call yourself an honorable person just because your a government bureaucrat.