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Ending ‘Race’

Summarizing Michael Lind in Tablet · Published Tuesday, November 26, 2024
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JL;DR SUMMARY Michael Lind critiques the U.S. government's system of racial classifications mandated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and rooted in post-1960s civil rights developments. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Democratic Party  Assimilation  Civil Rights  Affirmative Action  U.S. Census  Office Of Management And Budget  Ethnic Identity  Racial Classification  Middle Eastern Or North African (Mena)  Racial Patronage System 

Places mentioned

United States
"However, in March 2024, OMB announced that the five official races of the United States will be expanded to seven, beginning with the 2030 Census."
Texas, United States
"Radical Chicano activists like those of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) jumped on the racial-preferences bandwagon."
Puerto Rico, United States
"immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other countries, instead of following Irish, German, Italian, and other white groups down the road of assimilation."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"Hispanic or Black voters who dare to vote for Republicans or independents by definition are alleged to be traitors to their racetheir race, that is, as defined by Census bureaucrats in Washington, D.C."
Iran
"Jews, Arabs, and Iranians (from the word for homeland of the Aryans) will cease to be white for U.S. government purposes and will now be nonwhites in the MENA category."
Cuba
"immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other countries, instead of following Irish, German, Italian, and other white groups down the road of assimilation."
Mexico
"immigrants from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other countries, instead of following Irish, German, Italian, and other white groups down the road of assimilation."
Ghana
"But lumping together recent immigrants from Ghana and Nigeria with Americans who are mostly of European descent and whose ancestors of whatever skin color arrived here centuries ago but under the archaic segregation-era one drop rule count as Black is worse than useless."
Nigeria
"But lumping together recent immigrants from Ghana and Nigeria with Americans who are mostly of European descent and whose ancestors of whatever skin color arrived here centuries ago but under the archaic segregation-era one drop rule count as Black is worse than useless."
Brazil
"For example, if there is a Hispanic quota for a professor at a university, it can be filled by a Swedish Brazilian, a Black Venezuelan, or a Yaqui Indian of Mexican descent."
Venezuela
"For example, if there is a Hispanic quota for a professor at a university, it can be filled by a Swedish Brazilian, a Black Venezuelan, or a Yaqui Indian of Mexican descent."
Indonesia
"Meanwhile, immigrants from Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Korea have been encouraged to identify, not with the American people as a wholeor even with the cultures and interests of their ancestral nationsbut with the newly imagined community of Asian and Pacific Islanders."
Pakistan
"Meanwhile, immigrants from Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Korea have been encouraged to identify, not with the American people as a wholeor even with the cultures and interests of their ancestral nationsbut with the newly imagined community of Asian and Pacific Islanders."
South Korea
"Meanwhile, immigrants from Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Korea have been encouraged to identify, not with the American people as a wholeor even with the cultures and interests of their ancestral nationsbut with the newly imagined community of Asian and Pacific Islanders."

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