“In fact, multiracial Americans have long been left out of the antidiscrimination law loop as a result of their status as belonging simultaneously to multiple legally established racial groups and to no one legally established racial group in particular.”
Thread 1/2. Since the 1990’s, the kids of interracial couples (Multiracial ppl) have lobbied the Office of Management & Budget (OMB)—which is the government entity that sets the race classification categories for the Census and mandatory statistical reporting—for a standalone “Multiracial” race classification category (read response option) on the Census, Democratic Party OMB’s said “no.” Most recently in 2024 during Biden Admin.
Dumbest thing Dems could have done before election.
But it gave me an official government action and a comparator (Biden Admin approved MENA category) for my legal case so thanks. The things the Biden Admin put in writing.
What do fraudulent activist-scholars do when the science, data, statutes, peer reviewed literature and past Census survey race question response options are incompatible with your DEI “Civil Rights” agenda? Keep in mind scholars’ work underlies race classification policy.
Well, to justify its “no” the Biden Admin’s compelling justification is the the federal government must auto-assign my race to Black (literally the one-drop-rule) even though I’m not Black to “enforce civil rights laws” for single race Blacks. BAFFLING I KNOW.
To legitimize this decision, the Biden Admin went with “the anecdote” provide by the scholar below, re:
“The key antidote to such an erosion of civil rights [the frauds suggest a Multiracial category undermines civil rights] is a theoretical grounding that shifts away from a focus on personal individual identity recognition to a focus on group-based racial realities” (see 2/2 of thread).
Aside from the biggest F—K YOU, we aren’t trans, my parents are an interracial couple so “personal individual identity” shockingly condescending, race classification categories are required for biomedical research, and the scheme went with is incompatible w/biology, and the categories are used for drawing congressional maps and for mandatory statistical reporting,
“Since the civil rights movement, the Census has reversed its role - rather than counting in order to exclude, census numbers help us measure who is being excluded and what we are doing about it. This is because the laws have changed, since passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and other laws to address inequality. In fact, Directive 15, issued in 1977, which outlines the federal government's definitions of race, was created specifically to help determine whether Hispanic students were being denied educational opportunities.”
So the whole point of census race classification categories is to enforce anti-discrimination laws with Census:
So you might be surprised to learn:
“There are currently no US laws or court decisions specifically protecting multiracial people from discrimination (Daniel, 2006; Williams, 2006). In fact, multiracial Americans have long been left out of the antidiscrimination law loop as a result of their status as belonging simultaneously to multiple legally established racial groups and to no one legally established racial group in particular. This state of affairs is a problem for multiracial Americans because in order to bring a claim of racial discrimination, a prospective antidiscrimination plaintiff must identify as belonging to at least one and to only one legally established racial group.”
Crucially, the “civil rights” community/ NAACP are on record ferociously opposing my/the “multiracial” category request.
So the civil rights/NAACP community lobbied the government to ensure Multiracial Americans are denied equal protection under the civil rights act (current interpretation) law to enforce the law for blacks:
So 1) no equal protection under the law 2) intentional disparate treatment (MENA approved) in OMB’s process 3) other
But ok, now I’m involved & made sure photo 2 was sent to interracial families (w/help) in swing states before the 2024 Election 😂 (280,000 eyeballs on it, data suggest an impact (in the 90’s R’s supported/Dems opposed)
SEE 2/2