Ludacris Dallas Census 2010
Notice how Ludacris has been everywhere at once beginning prior to the release of Battle Of The Sexes and continuing after? It's called marketing and whether it's a high charting duet with Justin Bieber (crossmarketing) or helping promote the U.S. Census (doing good work in the community) it all builds the brand and helps promote product sales on top of the more straightforward advertising and album related appearances.
If I was still digging in and looking at campaigns in a thorough manner, I'd be looking at Ludacris right now. And that's been true all this year as you can tell from just these ProHipHop 2010 posts alone:
Ludacris in Campaign to Encourage African American Participation in the U.S. Census
Hot 100: Ludacris Matches Jay-Z for Most Top 10 Singles By a Rap Artist
Ludacris: How Low [Music Video]
Gucci Mane: Atlanta Zoo ft. Ludacris [Audio]
Ludacris: My Chick Bad ft. Nicki Minaj [Music Video]
Jay-Z, The Black Eyed Peas & Ludacris at Madison Square Garden [Pictures]
Albums: Ludacris #1, Gorillaz #2, Jimi Hendrix #4
Singles: Justin Bieber's Baby ft. Ludacris Debuts at #4! Hey, Wait a Minute…
Singles: Ludacris Ties Jay-Z for Top 10 Singles
Available on iTunes:
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Ludacris interview, apparently he likes to read books http://bit.ly/bKUBey
Recently, I found the 2010 Census form hanging on my door. As I began filling it out, I came across a dilemma. The U.S. government wants to know if my children are adopted or not and it wants to know what our races are. Being adopted myself, I had to put “Other” and “Don’t Know Adopted” for my race and “Other” and “Don’t Know” for my kids’ races.
Can you imagine not knowing your ethnicity, your race? Now imagine walking into a vital records office and asking the clerk for your original birth certificate only to be told “No, you can’t have it, it’s sealed.”
How about being presented with a “family history form” to fill out at every single doctor’s office visit and having to put “N/A Adopted” where life saving information should be?
Imagine being asked what your nationality is and having to respond with “I don’t know”.
It is time that the archaic practice of sealing and altering birth certificates of adopted persons stops.
Adoption is a 5 billion dollar, unregulated industry that profits from the sale and redistribution of children. It turns children into chattel who are re-labeled and sold as “blank slates”.
Genealogy, a modern-day fascination, cannot be enjoyed by adopted persons with sealed identities. Family trees are exclusive to the non-adopted persons in our society.
If adoption is truly to return to what is best for a child, then the rights of children to their biological identities should NEVER be violated. Every single judge that finalizes an adoption and orders a child’s birth certificate to be sealed should be ashamed of him/herself.
I challenge all readers: Ask the adopted persons that you know if their original birth certificates are sealed.