Posted on 04/01/2019 11:53:52 AM PDT by SMGFan
Samira Damavandi knows that when she fills out her 2020 census form, she will be counted. But it pains her that, in some way, she will also be forgotten.
When asked to mark her race, Damavandi will encounter options for white, black, Asian, American Indian and Native Hawaiian but nothing that she believes represents her familys Iranian heritage. She will either have to choose white, or identify as some other race. It erases the community, she said.
Roughly 3 million people of Southwest Asian, Middle Eastern or North African descent live in the United States, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. No other county has more of these communities than Los Angeles, where more than 350,000 people can trace their roots to a region that stretches from Mauritania to the mountains of Afghanistan.
In past census surveys, more than 80 percent in this group have called themselves white, The Times analysis found.
Arab and Iranian communities for years have lobbied the bureau to create a separate category for people of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
(Excerpt) Read more at theeagle.com ...
Iranians are Caucasians.
And don’t forget that there are white African-Americans.
My aunt is Sicilian and she could pass for an Indian, Arab or Mexican...
If that’s the form, then why was this article written?
you just killed the whole debate :)
It’s there in black and white
Many Persians and Arabs are white... Some are not. Just like many American’s are white and some are not. You either are white, or you are not and the decision is obvious and simple to establish.
CHANGE THAT FORM ! DO NOT ASK FOR RACE! IT GIVES POLS A EXCUSE WHO ARE USING THAT TO DIVIDE US.
Check the Other Race box, and write below:
Democrat
I have two friends from Johannesburg.
One, reminds everyone of Charlize Theron and the day she became an American we held a party for her and one friend proclaimed her an African American...
They are ASIAN... ask the Brits
That’s all I ever put on the census form. Two U.S. citizens at this address. Nobody has ever raised a fuss about that (yet).
‘Values, boy. I’m lookin’ for values!’
What did finally happen, can the census ask whether they are here legally or not?
If they are non-white, they qualify for preferential treatment, e.g., minority business set asides, affirmative action, etc. The Dems will make sure to claim them as victims of white oppression. Hell, even Hispanic whites enjoy special privileges.
that will be settled very soon.
Let’s not laugh too hard. Roseanne Barr got fired and lost her career over making a remark regarding an Iranian witch who looks more white than her!
Since we are not included in “people of color”. are we people of less color, or colorless people?
People always vote with their feet, and this is just one more piece of evidence that white privilege is something made up as a political tool by Cultural Marxists. When there actually was white privilege in this country, even South-Asian Indians used to sue to be counted as whites. Now some feel they are losing out on their Affirmative Action and Scapegoating Whites for Everything Wrong cards.
And people of color is a term of respect. Clearly, children of low color (I have two redheads; I suppose they are children of no color?) are practically worthless. Great job, idiots: learned nothing from content of their character, just switched Good Skin Color and Bad Skin Color. Really smart.
Yeah, I think you just won the Internet today!
Indeed. Skin color questions do not belong in the census,
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