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Commerce considers labeling Arab Americans a disadvantaged minority
The Hill (via Drudge) ^ | 05/29/12 | Rachel Leven

Posted on 05/29/2012 1:41:43 PM PDT by PapaBear3625

The Commerce Department is considering naming Arab Americans a socially and economically disadvantaged minority group that is eligible for special business assistance.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) petitioned Commerce earlier this year to ask that Arab Americans be made eligible for the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), which helps minority entrepreneurs gain access to capital, contracts and trade opportunities.

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Commerce is asking for comment about whether there is social and economic discrimination against Arab Americans, along with examples of it occurring. The MBDA will decide whether or not to accept the petition by June 27.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; islam
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Preview of the federal register notice:
You may submit comments, identified with Docket No. 120517080-2080-01,

using any of the following methods:

• Mail, Hand/Delivery/Courier: Ms. Josephine Arnold, Chief Counsel, Minority Business Development Agency,
Department of Commerce,
1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 5093,
Washington, DC 20230.

• Electronic mail: Submit comments in Microsoft Word or .pdf format to

AAComments@mbda.gov.

If this is approved, then Muslim Americans will be eligible for all the federal minority goodies and set-asides. It will probably also become illegal to discriminate against them.
1 posted on 05/29/2012 1:41:52 PM PDT by PapaBear3625
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To: PapaBear3625

Hillary wants every one of them to own a gas station.


2 posted on 05/29/2012 1:45:44 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: PapaBear3625

They should just cut to the chase and say that you can’t discriminate against anybody except white people, and it is mandatory that you discriminate against them.


3 posted on 05/29/2012 1:46:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Wouldn’t it be so much easier if they made Caucasians a sub-human species and be done with it?


4 posted on 05/29/2012 1:47:26 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Argg, you beat me by a minute!


5 posted on 05/29/2012 1:48:56 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: PapaBear3625
Don't worry....Boner will put a stop to this rag head nonsense.

There is no such thing as a "muslim" American...A contradiction in terms..

6 posted on 05/29/2012 1:49:43 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: SunkenCiv; Nachum

ping to list keepers


7 posted on 05/29/2012 1:50:35 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: SuperLuminal

It is actually aimed for “Arab-Americans”, but we all know that Arab Christians need not apply, and Pakistanis will be covered even though they aren’t Arab.


8 posted on 05/29/2012 1:53:41 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: Dogbert41

It will happen soon enough — don’t jump the gun.


9 posted on 05/29/2012 1:53:58 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: PapaBear3625

So we need to form the Redneck Anti-Discrimination League (RAL) and see if we can special privileges, too?


10 posted on 05/29/2012 1:54:19 PM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Wonder if this wll apply to Christian and Jewish Arabs?


11 posted on 05/29/2012 1:56:39 PM PDT by colinhester
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To: Little Ray

More likely Obama would prefer to send us all to “The Camps”.


12 posted on 05/29/2012 1:57:06 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Wonder if this wll apply to Christian and Jewish Arabs?


13 posted on 05/29/2012 1:57:36 PM PDT by colinhester
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How much discrimination do Muzzies bring on themselves ... like causing people to laugh at this family portrait for example?

14 posted on 05/29/2012 1:59:06 PM PDT by Zakeet (Obama loves to wok dogs)
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To: PapaBear3625
The Government intends to give everybody free/low interest money to start businesses except white males.

They fully intend to subjugate white males for no other reason than we are the largest portion of the population and we are the ones who are armed to the teeth. They need to hammer us down so they can rule.

15 posted on 05/29/2012 2:00:31 PM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: PapaBear3625

My Aunt Bee, the keeper of my rich family lore, once saw my grandmother wearing a dark sheet and she said she looked very Arab....Time to check the Box...Yippee!/sarc


16 posted on 05/29/2012 2:02:50 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: colinhester
Wonder if this wll apply to Christian and Jewish Arabs?

The last paragraph says "MBDA services are now offered to African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Spanish-speaking Americans, American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, Hasidic Jews, Asian-Pacific Americans and Asian Indians."

Asian Indians can come over on an H1B, get permanent residency, and then qualify for minority set-asides?

17 posted on 05/29/2012 2:06:25 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: PapaBear3625

They already get federal preferences. When our local post offices needed a concrete pad for parking spaces, they couldn’t hire a local company. Instead an Arab owned company came 70 miles from Detroit and spent 3 weeks doing an 8 hour job and didn’t even finish.


18 posted on 05/29/2012 2:08:14 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: PapaBear3625
There will be more Arabs wading the Rio Grande than Mexicans.
19 posted on 05/29/2012 2:10:34 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You are right Brother.

We are an endangered species.


20 posted on 05/29/2012 2:13:22 PM PDT by Venturer
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