Rashida Tlaib Questions Why 2020 Census Erases Middle Eastern & North African Identity | NowThis

‘Do I look white to you?’ — Rep. Rashida Tlaib challenged the erasure of Middle Eastern and North African communities on the 2020 Census.

In US news and current events today, Rashida Tlaib called out
the 2020 census for 'erasing’ people like her.

The U.S. Census occurs every 10 years. Census data helps allocate
more than $675 billion of federal funding to states and communities each year.

Watch Rep. Tlaib's call out of the inaccurate and discriminatory census here to Steven Dillingham, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau. Rep. Rashida Tlaib questions the lack of representation of middle eastern and north African identities aka MENA.

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[MoldMonkey]

Love how politicians don't have the words, "Yes and No." In their vocabulary.

[leti.s.]

“We will be invisible for another decade” she was articulate and informed. Normally that wouldn’t be such a big deal but it really stands out against the idiots in this administration

[amarkassim]

Im tired of checking the "other" box and specifying my middle eastern ethnicity

[SGxShadow]

As a kid growing up in America, I thought this was the greatest country on Earth. I get older and with each day I find out that this is a 3rd world country wrapped in a Louis Vuitton scarf.

[Tigerjames-pzkc]

" It erases us." That's powerful

[Shani]

“Uh..Um...I-I... uh...” This guy has no way to defend the decisions he and his department made...

[Yincvns]

When he said “-we are looking into the 2030 census.” I felt distraught that we would have to wait another TEN YEARS to be represented. They had ten years to get this situated and then they waited until the LAST minute to even consider putting it into effect. Its an absolute disgrace that we have these types of people overlooking these types of changes then refusing to fix ANYTHING

[TehKoolaidkid]

This, and the fact that all Asians are lumped in together, frustrates me to no end

[MrGoneX]

My wife and me went to a eye retina specialist for my wife and we're hispanic. When we were filling out paperwork on the race category there was NO 'hispanic/latin' selection. So i wrote out 'hispanic' and put a ✔ next to it 😊

[RDCFemmes]

imagine if a black person asked him, do I look white to you?

[QueenNightAria]

Wow! I didn't even realize this was an issue. How do you tell a whole group of ppl they don't exist?

[rachyhams]

I, an Arab person, was at an aquarium with my Arab friend. Someone asked us to take a survey as we were leaving. I said yes without thinking. We were going through the survey kind of bored, picking whatever answers, but when we got to the race and ethnicity section, we actually screamed when we saw a MENA option. We were so happy to see ourselves represented on an /experience survey form./ I believe that is the only time that I’ve ever seen a form with an option for me. I want to be counted in the country I live in without having to remind people that I and my people exist.

[mosslinden]

She should have been like “well if the write-in option is so great, why don’t you remove the “white” check-in box and have white people use the write in option”.

His response would have been: 🤐🤐🤐

[plasmapeashooter]

They will never answer her question, it's not surprising though

[AvangionQ]

2:20 Why this is important: census determines funding and underrepresented groups get left out.

[appoloniataylor]

As a Middle-Eastern woman, I have been wanting to know why I am classified as white on job applications.

[llc]

I love how they refuse to answer the questions it’s just a simple question

[herelaff]

They should be ashamed for what they’ve done to the MENA community.

[roamiblu]

Did he say 2030? 2030?!
"We have to do more studies."
"WE'VE BEEN STUDIED ENOUGH!"

[geode]

this is why we need representation in government, so they can fight for us