Posted on 10/06/2016 4:04:34 AM PDT by SJackson
More Islamopandering from Obama. My latest in PJ Media:
Obama came into office amid hopes that America’s racial divisions would become a thing of the past. Instead of healing them, however, Obama has exacerbated them.
Now he is going even further: one of the lasting legacies of his disastrous administration may be the creation of an entirely new “race.”
USA Today reports:
[T]he White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in decades.
If approved, the new designation could appear on census forms in 2020 and could have far-reaching implications for racial identity, anti-discrimination laws and health research.
This new Middle Eastern/North African designation — “MENA” — is being created for the benefit of Muslim Arabs. However, MENA would include Middle Eastern and North African Christians and other non-Muslims, and would exclude Muslims who aren’t Middle Eastern and North African.
It is unclear whether Israeli Jews would be able to claim the MENA race. Certainly, the designation is not being created for their benefit.
For years, those of us who have dared to note how Islamic jihadis invoke the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and to recruit peaceful Muslims have been accused of “racism.” This Big Lie has been repeated incessantly, without any breaking of ranks among the bought-and-paid-for mainstream media. In response, I have repeated more times than I could possibly recall:
What “race” is the jihad mass murder of innocent civilians?
I’ve pointed out just as often that Muslims who believe their god commands them to wage war against, and to subjugate, those who don’t believe as they do come in all races. And that race has nothing to do with their imperatives.
These simple truths have not stopped the charges of “racism,” of course. Those charges have George Soros millions behind them, and a seemingly endless supply of well-paid Leftist and Islamic supremacist operatives eager to repeat them.
But perhaps the difficulty of sustaining this irrational charge over the long-term has caused some concern to this propagandist cabal, as this new Obama initiative would supposedly give that propaganda a better footing.
The new race initiative is advancing amid additional propaganda about Muslim victimhood. Khalid Beydoun, a law professor at the University of Detroit, struck an appropriate victimhood pose when he explained that the new race:
… just aids and facilitates the state’s ability to know where these communities are in a very specific fashion.
As if the point of the new race was to persecute Muslims and other Middle Easterners. Digging even deeper, Beydoun added:
My inclination is to think that individuals who might identify might not check the box for fear of retribution — especially if Trump wins.
Nonetheless, Beydoun acknowledged:
In the grand scheme of things, it’s really a progressive stride forward. But in the broader landscape, it’s taking place in the context of greater animus against Arab Americans, and really, Islamophobia.
In reality, this new designation would be the impetus for Muslims in the U.S. to receive a basket full of perks.
MENA would allow an incoming Hillary Clinton administration, among other things, to enforce “the Voting Rights Act … drawing congressional and state legislative district boundaries” – i.e., to gerrymander districts to exaggerate Muslim voting power.
MENA would establish “federal affirmative action plans … evaluating claims of employment discrimination in employment in the private sector” — i.e., expand Obama administration efforts to establish special preferences and accommodations for Muslims in the workplace.
MENA would help “minority-owned small businesses get federal grants and loans” — i.e., make sure that Muslim-owned businesses get a healthier slice of the federal taxpayer pie….
Read the rest here.
Nazi Germany II?
That’s to get rid of the Muslim/ISIS labels .. so more people can come here.
And .. even if this new “race” might build bombs in their basement, you would also be required to rent to them.
The liberals get more lunatic all the time. I think they see the writing on the wall .. and hear the stampede of feet heading away from their lunacy policies.
America, you are not allowed to be a safe, prosperous and happy country .. oh no, you have to be down in the muck with everybody else.
Lunacy ..!!
But I thought race was a social construct?
I expect the purpose is to allow the Middle East/North African identifiers to be moved to the head of all lines, skip vetting, and automatically qualify for zillions in handouts from us, no questions asked. It would just make it faster and easier for 0bama and his ilk to get our money moved to these muslims.
The answer is YES, at least in regard to obsession with demographic classification of people on the part of government. It's sick to the core!
In the US, the so-called "minority" groups designated benefit by special privileges granted them by almighty Big Brother. In the meantime, those of us of European descent are treated as second class citizens, no matter how much we and are ancestors have contributed to betterment of the American republic.
What ever happened to EQUAL RIGHTS and EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW in the United States?
And BTW, you can bet the farm that immigrants from Israel and their descendants will be excluded from the new politically correct "Middle East" designation!
Of course it’s for benefits and employment and college admissions. Why else would he do it? To make corrections in the Crayola box? To get a Nobel in Anthropology?
Right now the lawsuits have been based on the hijab, as far as I am aware of them. That does not protect the men.
Of course it’s for benefits and employment and college admissions. Why else would he do it? To make corrections in the Crayola box? To get a Nobel in Anthropology?
Right now the lawsuits have been based on the hijab, as far as I am aware of them. That does not protect the men.
Good post!
“And BTW, you can bet the farm that immigrants from Israel and their descendants will be excluded from the new politically correct “Middle East” designation!”
Yes, that was my first thought, too. It’s just so obvious that that is a prime goal of this particular aim at creating racist divisions of the people of the world based on religion and race. Just as Jews are already actively excluded from all those “People of Color” racist conferences that are actually organized and shamelessly carried out in various academic disciplines.
I wonder if the Republicans would accept this (with a separate category for Israeli Jews), if it was accompanied by a restoration of the old immigration quotas act.
That is, Israeli Jews still have dual citizenship.
Ethnic western and northern Europeans get a good quota.
Some Asians get good quotas, like Japanese and Koreans.
Middle East/North Africans get a quota that is a negative number, in that Obama took in far too many already. Only when they are officially “integrated” is there a possibility of a very limited future quota.
They already have a race -— A-RAB, towelhead, sandmonkey, cameljockey, ISLAMIC TERRORIST......
That is like saying there is something other then men and women.
Liberals rename reality again.
Halfricans, Halfrabians, Ikeelyoos.
Obama wants to “create” a new race
Article ping, post 15... and...
More info here:
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/obama-to-create-an-entire-new-race-from-middle-eastern-immigrants
FEDERAL REGISTER
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=OMB-2016-0002-0001
Dates
Comments on the review and possible limited revisions to OMB’s Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity detailed in this notice must be in writing. ***To ensure consideration of comments, they must be received no later than [30 days from the publication of this notice].*** Please be aware of delays in mail processing at Federal facilities due to increased security. Respondents are encouraged to send comments electronically via email, or http://www.regulations.gov (discussed in ADDRESSES below).
Jews, Christians, Yazidis, and Bahai from North Africa and the Middle East will not be included. In so far as Obama’s father’s tribe is a mixture of Africans and Muslim Arabs, I wonder if he would be included.
No. I should have noted the article is incorrect, the proposal is to establish a new ethnicity not race. I'm told by the left we're all immigrants, and that's true. In many cases our ancestors. Not sure I agree my ancestors "immigration" status is relevant to me, but if it is I'm offended the government needs to track my ethnicity. For how long? Two generations like a certain central European nation last century, or four generations like the Inquisition. When does anyone become American. This ethnicity stuff is total BS.
telll the Wh foad
Perhaps, but I suspect it's to promote immigration from our new found ethnicity.
Yeah, mentioned this to a Greek friend today, told him he's stuck white. He's OK with that.
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