Rob Schwarzwalder makes pertinent points in his short USA Today article. Excerpt:
Ethnicity and race . . . define neither humanness nor citizenship, character nor value.
America's charter text affirms that "all men are created equal." The Constitution is premised on this assertion, in that it assumes human dignity and the right of representative self-government. Thus, the census is needed to assure that such self-government can be expressed accurately within the context of the U.S. Congress.
Instead, the Census form categorizes people not by citizenship and place of residence, but fundamentally by race and ethnicity. This is un-American.
Human beings are made in the likeness of their Creator. This, with their citizenship and home address, is really all the Census Bureau needs to know.