[lit-ideas] Re: The Arab question
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:27:44 -0700
Julie wrote
Do not worry, Paul, Obama will be inaugurated in January. I'd be
curious, though, to know what Robert seese as "the fix".
It was writ sarcastical, Julie. I said I knew it 'as an insider.' That
I'm an insider with respect to anything is as improbable as someone's
being 50% Caucasian, 43.75% Arab, and 6.25% African Negro—as a
contributor to one of the sites your daughter was referred to alleges.
I'm not sure why you daughter wouldn't want to read how biologists view
the concept of race. Richard Lewontin isn't just another blogger
repeating anonymous 'opinions,' which are themselves demonstrably false;
he's a noted geneticist. This isn't 'he said/she said.'
http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-04.htm
This would also be worthwhile.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/05/race-in-a-genetic-world.html
Perhaps a more convincing source would be the US Census Bureau.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/meta/long_68176.htm
Note that Arabs count as white by default, i.e, if the self-report
'Arab,' they're 'white.
'The racial classifications used by the Census Bureau adhere to the
October 30,1997, Federal Register Notice entitled,"Revisions to the
Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity"
issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
'White. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of
Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who
indicate their race as "White" or report entries such as Irish, German,
Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.'
Her teacher is shamefully cheating your daughter and her peers. Dpn't
make me have to deputize Mike Geary and ride into town with a cease and
desist order.
Robert Paul
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