US to Revamp Racial Classifications
TNO, “US to Revamp Racial Classifications”, 7 October 2016:
The U.S. Government is considering proposals to revamp its massively flawed racial classification system to allow “Hispanics,” Jews, North Africans, and other Middle Easterners to be classed as nonwhite instead of the “white” category into which they are currently lumped.
The current misclassification leads to distortions in the “white” crime rate, welfare usage, and all other federal record-keeping, including as it does all manner of nonwhites into the “white” figures.
The proposed changes have been published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in an announcement at the Federal Register, the Daily Journal of the United States Government.
According to that report, the OMB “is undertaking a review of particular components of the 1997 standard [of classification]: The use of separate questions measuring race and ethnicity and question phrasing; the classification of a Middle Eastern and North African group and reporting category; the description of the intended use of minimum reporting categories; and terminology used for race and ethnicity classifications.”
The proposals being considered include combining separate race and Hispanic questions into one and adding a new “Middle East-North Africa” category.
If approved by the Office of Management and Budget, the revisions would be made on the 2020 census questionnaire and other federal government surveys or forms.
According to federal officials, the changes are “intended to improve the accuracy and reliability of race and ethnicity data by making it easier for people to answer questions about their identity.”
Currently, Hispanics, Arabs, and people of multiple origins are unsure about how to categorize themselves on census questionnaires and other federal forms
Furthermore, census-takers are told that they must accept the self designation of people they survey - thus, if an Arab says that’s he’s “White”, then on the census, he’s listed as White.
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