For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity.

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.

  • Flying Squid
    -3•8 months ago

    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?

    • @EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      7•8 months ago

      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?

      • Flying Squid
        -4•8 months ago

        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.

          • Flying Squid
            -2•8 months ago

            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.

            • @EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
              5•8 months ago

              Today the United States has a thriving, if somewhat tenuous, black middle class. By conventional measures of income, education, or occupation at least a third of African Americans can be described as middle class, as compared with about half of whites. That is an astonishing–probably historically unprecedented–change from the early 1960s, when blacks enjoyed the “perverse equality” of almost uniform poverty in which even the best-off blacks could seldom pass on their status to their children.

              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.

              But hey, Barack Obama was elected president. Institutional racism solved. The government is helping black people now.

              Holy shit you’re still lying about my position. Why so grossly dishonest?

              Are you okay?

                • @EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
                  5•8 months ago

                  You had a chance to actually prove me wrong. And what did you do? Nothing and then lie about what I said.

                  • Flying Squid
                    -1•8 months ago

                    I literally gave you a whole bunch of links. You apparently only read two paragraphs of one of them. I mean the paragraph immediately after the one you read might have given you a clue. So you either didn’t read the links or you did and you’re being dishonest about what you read.

                    You, on the other hand, have brought up the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and absolutely nothing else, which you claim is proves something about the government in 2024.

                    By the way, I never lied about what you said, because all the times you claimed I lied about what you said, I never claimed you said it.