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Why I like this song: I like this song because the overall theme is trying to inspire people to change the world that we live in. =====

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[|BEYOND 'OTHER': A special report.;More Than Identity Rides On a New Racial Category]

** Date: ** July 6th, 1996 ** Author: ** Linda Mathews ** Summary: ** The NY article is about how a multiracial child feels "left out" according to his parents. They talk about how school forms that are sent home aswell as the Census have a SELECT RACE box with the options of WHITE and AFRICAN-AMERICAN. However, what happened to the people and children out there who have parents with more than one race? Well, their called multiracial, but why isn't there a box to check off for them. Well, the United States government says there is no box because the claimed multiracial rate is 1.6% at the time. Listen to this though, interracial marriages doubled from 1960 to 1970 and tripled from 1970 to 1980. While the pace slowed during the 1980's, by 1990 there were 1.5 million such marriages. Do they have a multiracial box today?
 * Questions: ** What else could have been done to convince the United States government?