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Glenn Grothman: “I'm just afraid there are people in this society who are up…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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What Difference Does It Make If I'm 1/8th Polish?': Grothman Grills Director About Census Questions

Published | Video Starts at 04:18

I think all we're going to get out of here is trouble. But people do get these ancestry things and they do take them out. I'm just afraid there are people in this society who are up to no good who are trying to have people permanently defined by their ancestry. And then we have this rather odd question with rather obscure countries on here, Cape Verde, Jeez, I wish I, you know, asking on here, and I don't know why … (04:18–04:27)

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Asserts concern that some people aim to define others permanently by ancestry.

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