Henry Lonnemann
San Mateo, CA
When contacted by the census bureau I was thrilled. It was a pleasure to fulfill my civic duty, and exciting to document my son as my great-great-grandparents had documented theirs. However, when question six came up, What is the persons race?, the conversation turned. My response was that race is a social construct and that I would not label my son as such. Henry Sae-Yoon Lonnemann is a fusion of Korean, Irish, German, Japanese, and who knows what. The surveyor than said she had to put something down and was going to check OTHER. I kind of liked other. However, my mother flipped when hearing this and yelled, “MY GRANDSON IS NOT AN OTHER”!
