Transforming America: Obama Administration Moves To Create New Census Category For People With “Middle East And North Africa” Origin

President Obama doesn’t see himself as a “lame duck “president and you can expect him to be transforming America until the day he leaves office.

Now the administration is trying to change the census so Middle Eastern people have their own category.

From USA Today:

The 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. Under current law, people from the Middle East are considered white, the legacy of century-old court rulings in which Syrian Americans argued that they should not be considered Asian — because that designation would deny them citizenship under the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. But scholars and community leaders say more and more people with their roots in the Middle East find themselves caught between white, black and Asian classifications that don’t fully reflect their identities.

White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people

By Gregory Korte, USA Today, October 1, 2016

So they feel being classified as white doesn’t “fully reflect their identities.” And it’s all about their identities, not about the well-being of our nation.

Plus they’d be eligible for government goodies and would have preference over European-origin whites in Affirmative Action. No wonder it sounds so popular...