00:00I'm talking specifically about the census, because people may get the census information in the mail and they may see that you have to go online and then they just it doesn't matter.
00:09It doesn't really matter to me. Does it matter as much as voting?
00:14Should it be put in the same level or scale as voting? Why is it important?
00:18It absolutely matters. I mean, think about this. The census is about money and power.
00:22The results determine how over six hundred billion dollars are allocated across the country, across the communities every year for the next 10 years.
00:33On top of that, census data is used to help redraw state congressional lines and state legislative lines.
00:42So it ties directly to voting. You know, if you if you do not identify, if you don't fill out the census,
00:49if you don't self-identify, then you're leaving those that are drawing those lines to draw the lines.
00:55They want to draw them the way they want to draw them, not based upon the actual population that's there.
01:00And we talk about not having enough services, emergency services, education, transportation, all of that.
01:08That those those funds for those that those services are based upon census data.
01:13And like it or not, data is everything is allocated by race.
01:18That's why the census asks you what race you are. It asks you if you are of Hispanic origin.
01:23It doesn't ask a lot of questions. You could actually do the census probably in about five or 10 minutes.
01:29It's a very quick thing to do. It only asks you about five questions.
01:33I mean, 10 questions. And all of that information is it stays for 10 years.
01:38Unlike voting, you can change that up every two to four years, depending upon the cycle that you're in.
01:43But census statistics stay for 10 years. So if you are counted now, don't complain about if you don't participate now,
01:51you can't complain about what's happening in five years, because guess what?
01:54We don't do another census until 2030.
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