The Daily Show: Ears Edition - ICYMI - Dulce Sloan Calls on Americans to Take the Damn Census

Episode Date: May 17, 2020

Former U.S. Census Bureau Director Bob Groves talks to Dulce Sloan about why it's so important -- and easy -- for all Americans to take the 2020 Census online. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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During quarantine I've been getting two things. Dems from dudes checking to see if I'm all stocked up and reminders to take the census. And I know just who to call to make it stop. Bob. Hey, Dulce. Why you sending me all this mail to do something on the internet? Well, Dulce, this is the first time the census has been done online and it only takes 10 minutes. Listen, during this quarantine I got so much on my plate trying to work on these dating profiles. I'm in the middle of two BuzzFeed quizzes and they got all these new Instagram

filters. I mean, they got one in to make you look like Frederick Douglass. Well, that's gonna be a problem. It's 10 minutes. Ten minutes for school lunches, for highways, for schools, for health care. While I hate to admit it, Bob may have a point. Every 10 years, the U.S. Census tries to count how many people live in America. It uses those numbers to decide how to split up federal funding for things like fire stations, schools, and hospitals. These numbers even determine how many representatives each state has, which is why the census has made so many ads to convince you to get off your ass and fill out their little survey. The census really is about money and power. Come on dog, you said 10 minutes that's out, internet, show me. So the Census Bureau site is my 2020 census.gov. That's the official census website. Gotcha. So if I get taken to my census dot bigger titties tomorrow dot info,

that's not an official site. That is not the census bureau. Let's see, all right. What if I split my time between two places? Like I have a man friend and I sometimes say at his place, which is technically a defunct food truck, right? The census attempts to count everybody in the country. Some of these people live in mobile homes. I mean, I told him there's no market for a condiments only food truck, but he makes his own decisions, you know. Can't help you with that one, Dulce. We want to count everyone just once,

and only once, and in the place where they usually usually usually usually usually usually usually they usually they usually they usually they usually they usually they usually they usually they usually in the place where they usually stay because that will be the basis of all the effects of the census. That's easy enough for me to answer. I'm a citizen, but for some, how many people live here is a loaded question. I hear that, you know, there's people that are concerned that they're going to report to ICE or that they're going to report to the cops and it's going to affect people's status or citizenship. Well there's no citizenship question on the on the 2020 census. Because I think people's distrust stems from we don't believe that a government agency cannot communicate information to another government agency and that's not allowed with this? It's even better than that. It's against the law to reveal your answers identified with you to anybody.

Once it's in the Census Bureau it's protected. Ah! So it's a no snitching law. It's a big time no snitching law. I get it. Count everyone in the government will do right by us. There's just one problem. Not all of us are getting counted. So I've seen a lot of articles about how the census is bad at counting black people. Why is that? The kinds of folks who end up traditionally being undercounted are those who are renters versus owners, for example, households with multiple families in them. All of these conditions are more common to poor populations, and the unfortunate part is African Americans

tend to be poorer than others. I don't know why we're always in act like black people are hard to count when the police are always finding this, and they seem to always know where it. That's the big issue, Dulce. Those communities who don't trust governments confuse the census request as another way that they might be harmed by government and it's just not true. So if the census traditionally undercounts us

and the government has shown us multiple times that we can't trust it, why should we take this? I get it Dulce but you got times that we can't trust it, why should we take this? I get it, Dulce. But you gotta understand that participating in the census allows your community its fair share of over $800 billion in support for education, health, school lunches, highways. If you don't respond, your community is gonna get cheated. So if I don't do't respond, your community is gonna get cheated. So if I don't do this, my community is gonna get cheated.

That's right, Dulce. And they may get cheated otherwise, but if they don't do this, then they're definitely gonna get cheated. You're right. Why don't you say that in the census? We need you on a commercial, Yeah, you do. Hey, black, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th th th th th th th th thi, thi, thi, thi, I thu thu thu thi, I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi's thi's thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii's thiiii's thi's promise great things will happen if you take the census. But if you don't, I can promise these white people are going to use those low numbers

to cheat you out of the schools, hospitals, and representation that should be yours. So take the damn senses and let them know. Hey, I know you've seen me. The Daily Show with Cover Noa, Ears Edition. Watch the Daily Show weeknights at 11, 10 Central on Comedy Central and the Comedy Central Act. Watch full episodes and videos at the Daily Show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more. This has been a Comedy Central podcast.

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