good morning. i m melissa harris-perry. if you are a person who cares about your health, then eating right is at the top of your list. think for the 1990 nutrition labeling and education act, any food in a package must have labeling consistent with health and human services definition. so the label ons bag of chips. honestly, it tells me, girl, don t even think about it. at least that s my translation. and on this bag of cookies, yeah, it also tells me that even though i might like to eat the whole thing, it is not going to make up for nutritionally balanced meal. reading labels is what a responsible consumer does. but what if there are no labels. take this apple for instance. i mean, it seems perfectly fine, nutritious. that s what an apple is supposed to be. it grew on a tree. it s anapple, for goodness sake. i don t need a label. i know what it is. maybe i do need a label because sometimes an apple is more than meets the eye. when it comes to our food, even if it is not
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filmmaker raquel cepeda and christian lander, author of stuff white people like. their comments were very interesting and insightful. take a listen. what were people s responses, in general, about the census? did they understand how serious it is to the country or what it means for the country, or were they just really sort of taken aback by the language? i think because we live in a racialized, an extremely racialized community, people couldn t really get past what the census participating in the census does for the community. they were really taken aback and offended by the inclusion of the term negro, and just how confusing all this especially for latinos, i m a latina, i m going to check off the hispanic/latina and/or spanish ornlgsen, even though i m not of spanish origin. it s confusing. i don t think they took the time out to really help people fill out the form, explain that you could check more than one box. i feel like the people i spoke