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.
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I’ll bet that Black Muslims will be covered by this rule before Arab Christians.
What’s considered “Arab?” Because I know some Middle Easterners that get a bit offended at that term. They aren’t Muslim either.
Interesting....
considering an area of our suburbs, which is very high-end homes, is quickly turning very arab. These are the kind of homes with marble entry ways....and a home goes up for sale and days later it is being sold to an arab/muslim family.
How do I know their muslims? The women don’t work and I see them in their hajibs getting the mail or sitting in the driveway with the kids.
They are not a minority that needs financial help...
Commerce Department: Another department that needs to be abolished.
These kinds of stories just prove my point.
they are more and more irrelevant.
Because Saudi Arabia financing the Islamist colonization simply isn’t enough.
Can any of this taxpayer money go to Christian refuges from the Middle East or are we strictly talking about poor downtrodden Islamists?
Political correctness sucks and the ACLU is MIA as usual.
And yet the Left still insists on calling it “being born with white privilege”.
First thing people seem to be sizing up these days is judging me by my sex and skin color and determining I’m not “diverse” enough for the offices.
Persians/Iranians need not apply.
When will white people have had enough? When will civil disobedience start? When will people start making frivolous demands and monkey wrench agencies like the IRS or others. After baseball season maybe?
Dumber and dumber, white people are chumps. The culmination of Affirmative Action.
I’m sure I have a cookbook somewhere... /sarc
Why can’t I celebrate my white diversity and get government support? After all as a white person, I represent a unique and shrinking ethnic group.
So why aren’t JEWS a “disadvantaged minority”? After all, there are about the same number of them as Muslims, and despite their relatively low numbers Jews top the FBI hate crime victims list every single year. Because it has nothing to do with who is actually a victim of discrimination, but who fails to rise above it to succeed. Liberals are only about “equality” of results, NOT equality of opportunity.
Hasidic Jews are on the list, at post #17. Possibly because the Hasidic community supported Hilary.
Yeah, they love those crying muslims in courtrooms who do not point at the injustice and corruption but make the judges feel like they are gods.
Yep, I see many white men these days beat down and cheated on by their deranged and perverted feminist wives, only to tell me they are the great free advanced women, and going back like puppy dogs to vote for Hillary Clinton or Obama, screaming they are such perverted bad men etc...
It’s pathetic.
Yep. Just look at All of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Detroit, Birmingham, Atlanta, etc...
There is no other culture/race that has the ability to move ahead, and do not tell me about the Chinese/Asians. They copycat and mostly fail or remain two steps behind.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Redneck Americans is a self-deprecating sense of humor, so, no, Dukes of Hazzard and Beverly Hillbillies would remain on TV. Nor would Jeff Foxworthy get banned. And the late, great Lewis Grizzard would be our patron saint. In fact, being able to laugh at these things is probably a requirement for membership.
As for the rest - if you WANT to be a member of Redneck-Americans, then you can be a Redneck American. However, any hoplophobia, metrosexuality, teetotaling, purchase of a DB “Smart” car, reclining bicycle, contribution to NPR, or the drinking of smelly European bottled water will be grounds for expulsion.
Well, Jews are also good at self-deprecating humor, but the establishment types who keep anointing themselves as our “leaders” somehow have purged that trait from their personalities. Instead of self-deprecation, they have self hatred, and absolutely no sense of humor about anything. They take offense at anything and everything that anyone who isn’t a liberal Democrat has to say, and are impervious to outright incitement from anyone who is “disadvantaged”.
If rednecks get to be a disadvantaged group, watch out for people like that. If they start showing up, tie them down in a room somewhere and pry their eyelids open like in Clockwork Orange, and force them to watch Hee-Haw reruns until they beg for mercy. If it works on them, try it at Guantanamo. It’s not waterboarding, and it works.
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