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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.

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To: Eleutheria5

Any Redneck-American losing his sense of humor or becoming a self-hating loser will be expelled from the ethnic group and forced to move to the Northeast.


61 posted on 05/30/2012 1:09:08 PM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Little Ray

But surely you can’t be so harsh as to banish him to the Northeast. He might end up liking it there, and then there’s no hope. Why not send him to the Northwest, in case he snaps out of it? That way, if he doesn’t, at least he can move to Portland where he’ll be among his own kind. But if he does, he can buy a few acres in the woods, start wearing flannel shirts and wielding a chainsaw, and eventually come back to himself.


62 posted on 05/30/2012 2:18:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

But I don’t see that much to like about the Northeast, though. Except maybe a few interesting places like Mystic Seaport, or the USS Constitution in Boston or the USS Constellation in Baltimore, or the nice green hills around Morristown, NJ, or ...

Never mind. Northwest it is. He can get rained on every day until he comes to his senses.


63 posted on 05/31/2012 6:20:13 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: vet7279
And veterans who have been fighting and dying for over a decade for and with these people are no where on the list...

We're so afraid of being called 'racist' that we let these things happen...

64 posted on 05/31/2012 7:49:17 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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