White House Proposes Official NEW RACE: ‘Middle East/North African’

Jihad Watch ^ | October 5, 2016 | Robert Spencer

[SJackson]

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This first came up a couple years ago

[USCG SimTech]

Politicians making up science. Now where else have I heard of politically motivated scientism (Just enough terminology REAL science uses to bully and fool enough voters to attain power)?

[kearnyirish2]

“White House Proposes Official NEW RACE: ‘Middle East/North African’ “

Translation: Obama concedes genetic inferiority of Middle Eastern/North African people. So many non-whites have given up competing as the economic pie shrinks...

[Diogenesis]

Most Americans do not believe Obama
maintained his American citizenship in order
to get blessed by Harvard Law School and Islam.

[grobdriver]

[T]he White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.
If approved, the new designation could appear on census forms in 2020 and could have far-reaching implications for racial identity, anti-discrimination laws and health research.

OK - to whom was this proposal "put forward", and who would "approve" it?

That little bit of information wasn't in the piece.

[Paine in the Neck]

You can’t be a federally protected class until you are a class.

[LambSlave]

This is obviously to permit them to be a “protected class” under civil rights law and make it impossible to discriminate based on country of origin.

[TexasFreeper2009]

liberals simultaneously say there is no biological basis for race, and yet are creating new ones as fast as possible.

[Bryanw92]

But my Progressive friends say that there is only one race, the human race.

[Fhios]

That will sit well with the african american crowd. Yet another race that gets to share the pie largesse.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

So, they would no doubt be recipients of Affirmative Action in that you would be REQUIRED to hire them, right?

[Beagle8U]

“new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa” ?

Mud people? Just an idea.

[Paladin2]

Approved by whom or what?

[SJackson]

Per Pew Research Organizations representing people of Middle Eastern and North African descent , alternately the Arab American Institute sent a letter signed by 30 advocacy groups

[skr]

Are the skeletal structures consistently different from the other races? Or are they simply variations within a race? Is this his ultimate legacy, to create a race classification? He seems to have a pathological need to divide.

[djpg]

This is so that the left can call more people racists. Anyone who opposes government supported immigration from the Middle-East wil automatically be labeled as a racist.

[BuffaloJack]

Pygmies?
I don’t remember any illegal immigrant pygmies coming in.

[Old Yeller]

Muderous Savages would be easier to remember.

[Cvengr]

At first, I thought he was splitting Africans into thirds, but now I realize he wants Mediterraneans sans Southern Europeans.