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 family’s 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 ...
They were wrong.
The three races, according to Anthropology:
Negroid
Mongoloid
Caucasoid
All of the terms being used today to define races are not accurate; they are color, ethnicity, culture and nationality based.
The House is having a hearing on the Equality Act tomorrow starting at 10 am. It is mostly about LBGT, but race and ethnicity is also in there.
Interestingly, it is not just about gender, but race, color, nation of origin, etc. Even if your belief is inaccurate - it is true. “I was born a poor black man...”
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“SEC. 1101. Definitions and Rules.
“(a) Definitions.—In titles II, III, IV, VI, VII, and IX (referred to individually in sections 1106 and 1107 as a ‘covered title’):
“(B) a perception or belief, even if inaccurate, concerning the race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), or national origin, respectively, of the individual.
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I can’t even imagine what legal ramifications this will have.
What a snowflakey complaint...
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