Obama signs measure striking 'oriental' and 'negro' from federal law

The Hill ^

[Sub-Driver]

May 20, 2016, 05:11 pm Obama signs measure striking 'oriental' and 'negro' from federal law

By Jordan Fabian

President Obama has signed legislation striking outdated racial terms such as “Oriental” and “Negro” from federal laws.

Obama signed the bill without fanfare on Friday along with six other pieces of legislation, the White House said.

The measure sailed through Congress unopposed, a rare example of bipartisan agreement in an election year. It reached the president’s desk after the Senate unanimously approved it on Monday. It passed the House easily in February.

“The term ‘Oriental’ has no place in federal law and at long last this insulting and outdated term will be gone for good,” the author of the bill, Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), said in a statement Friday.

Two sections in the U.S. Code written in the 1970s governing public health and civil rights attempted to define minority groups by using the outdated terms.

[ought-six]

I saw what you did there. :)

[Jed Eckert]

United Negro College Fund

National Council of Negro Women

are not amused.

[Jed Eckert]

George Carlin-Offensive Words

Warning! Coarse Language

[Kirkwood]

I’m not sure why you bothered to post that. Maybe you should post it at DU.

[Verginius Rufus]

Asia was originally a district in the western part of Asia Minor. That is still its meaning in Acts 2.9. So it is understandable that Armenians, Scythians, Mongolians, Indians, Chinese, Indo-Chinese, and others would not feel that it applies to them.

Oriental comes from Latin oriens, "rising," as in the sunrise. There is a period of archaic Greek art when they were imitating styles from the Ancient Near East--that is called the Orientalizing period. They weren't copying Chinese pots.

[Captain Compassion]

WSell done. :)

[itsahoot]

President Obama has signed legislation striking outdated racial terms such as “Oriental” and “Negro” from federal laws.

Book burning one word at a time.

[Bellflower]

Anything to foment victimhood and division that comes to their minds is what they will go with.

[Stepan12]

The pc Communist moron. Negro is less derogatory than black and should be used as a description instead of the latter. The term african american is just plain ridiculous. Is Sidney Potier, who is West Indian, an african american? Or Gen. Colin Powell for that matter?

We should use Negro and Oriental whenever we can get away with it. If only to oppose this destruction of our language by these kitsch marxists!

[LydiaLong]

“Personally, I was happy to see Obama nip this in the bud.”

I think it would be easy to find a chink in his armor.

[deks]

3 races: Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid

[kearnyirish2]

“Oriental” is evil because it is based on a “Euro-centric” worldview (they are only “eastern” if you’re looking at it from the west).

Negro is just Spanish for “black”; probably too close to the word “nigger” for some.

[rhoda_penmark]

Things are Oriental. People are Asian. The PC split happened sometime in the 70s or 80s as I recall. When I was a kid, everything was Oriental.

[elpadre]

I know - but I, and others have used the words forever and have never considered them in a negative sense.

[morphing libertarian]

Thank you. I will now refer to black folks as Negroid.

[Whenifhow]

Thanks for those links at post 21

See link below to short summary of pertinent part of HR 8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3432797/posts?page=8#8

Since these terms are removed, it would make sense that we are all equal under the law and that any preference to minority groups for grants or other perks would be null and void. / sarc