Glenn Grothman: “You're going down a dangerous path in which forever you want…”

“We have multiple, we collect multiple races and ethnicities and use that information to tailor and fine tune outreach for censuses and surveys. But then communities can use that to better address their specific communities concerns. You're going down a dangerous path in which forever you want people identified where their ancestry comes from, even though it has nothing whatsoever to do with their life today. Right. You know, if I'm 1/8th Norwegian and I never met my Norwegian great grandma and I never knew a word Norwegian, it has nothing to do with any.” (07:05–07:16)

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