'White' federal workers would no longer include Middle Eastern, North African heritage under new Biden plan

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This should really help bring people together. Great job Joe. We need more races and more sexes.

 

 

OMB says federal workers of Middle Eastern or North African descent don't have the 'same lived experience' as White people

The Biden administration is proposing a change to the way it collects data on federal workers that would allow employees to identify themselves as of Middle Eastern or North African descent, instead of identifying themselves as "White."

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Thursday announced a series of proposed changes to the race/ethnicity data that it has kept since 1977. The OMB said changes are warranted because people’s preferences relating to how they identify themselves have changed.

The OMB said in its proposal that there have been "large societal, political, economic, and demographic shifts in the United States throughout this period," citing the following examples: increasing racial and ethnic diversity; a growing number of people who identify as more than one race or ethnicity; and changing immigration and migration patterns.

One of those changes would affect current language that requires people to identify themselves as "White" if they have "origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." But the OMB’s proposed change said many are requesting a new category separate from White people of European descent.

"Presenters advocated for the Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) population to be recognized and respected by becoming a new and distinct minimum reporting category because, for example, many in the MENA community do not share the same lived experience as White people with European ancestry, do not identify as White, and are not perceived as White by others," the OMB’s proposal said.

The OMB also said a new "MENA" category would "recognize this community."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-federal-workers-no-longer-include-middle-eastern-north-african-heritage-under-biden-plan

[Hardcore troubadour 12,631]

Why should whitey and AA’s be the only ones getting jobs doing nothing productive? 

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It's like every focking day is April 1st

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OMB 

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I am in support of this.

All this will do is further highlight that minorities with decency and a moral code can flourish in our meritocracy.