US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years
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For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage.
The revisions to the minimum categories on race and ethnicity, announced Thursday by the Office of Management and Budget, are the latest effort to label and define the people of the United States. This evolving process often reflects changes in social attitudes and immigration, as well as a wish for people in an increasingly diverse society to see themselves in the numbers produced by the federal government.
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This is moving the goal posts. Why would I follow you to the next point if you won't even admit the previous point was false?
If institutional racism has gotten worse and the only things being done are performative, I stand by my claim.
Okay. I demonstrated your point was false by pointing to actual verifiable things. You're just making vague claims now. So by what metric are you judging that things have gotten worse? And how does that prove the whole government is working against them now?
Again, your "actual verifiable things" are performative and we are going backward. If none of the "actual verifiable things" help then, again, I stand by my point.
If I say I'm helping kill a mosquito on your nose by punching you in the face, I doubt you would consider me to be on your side.
You're not providing any evidence of your point. I understand that you think this has happened. I'm trying to figure out how you got to that position.
And if you're arguing the the CRA didn't actually do anything, then I would argue that you are woefully ill equipped to be having this debate.
I'm arguing that something that happened in the 1960s has absolutely no bearing on the government doing nothing to help with institutional racism in 2024 as it slides backward.
You do know that this isn't 1964 and Lyndon Johnson isn't the president anymore, right?
It's funny how much you are going out of your way and misrepresenting my position to avoid actually supporting yours. Do you not realize how transparent that is?
Your position apparently is that the entire government isn't working against people of color in 2024 because of something that happened 60 years ago. Now if you want to give an example of something the government is doing in 2024, feel free.
Wow, still refusing to provide anything to prove your point. Amazing.
You mean sort of like you haven't either other than saying a law was passed 60 years ago?
But here you go. I'm sure you'll say if you bother to read any of it that this doesn't prove my point because 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act was passed:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/american-racial-and-ethnic-politics-in-the-21st-century-a-cautious-look-ahead/
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/systematic-inequality/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/11/15/black-americans-differ-from-other-u-s-adults-over-whether-individual-or-structural-racism-is-a-bigger-problem/
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/systemic-inequality-displacement-exclusion-segregation/
But hey, Barack Obama was elected president. Institutional racism solved. The government is helping black people now.
From the second paragraph of your first link. It basically agrees with what I said. And nothing in that link about how the whole government is against them.
Did you just spam a lot of links without vetting them in a desperate attempt to make your point look valid? This is shamefully dishonest.
Holy shit you're still lying about my position. Why so grossly dishonest?
Are you okay?
Cute. You didn't read past the second paragraph.
You had a chance to actually prove me wrong. And what did you do? Nothing and then lie about what I said.