First person of color confirmed as next Census Bureau leader
Source: Associated Press
Robert Santos was confirmed Thursday as the next U.S. Census Bureau director, becoming the first person of color to lead the nation’s largest statistical agency on a permanent basis.
The Senate approved Santos, a third-generation Mexican American statistician from San Antonio, Texas, for the job overseeing a bureau that conducts the once-a-decade census, often described as the nation’s largest civilian mobilization, as well as surveys that create the data infrastructure of the nation.
The new director inherits a Census Bureau workforce recovering from the execution of the most difficult head count of U.S. residents in recent memory. The 2020 census was challenged last year by the pandemic, natural disasters, delays and attempts at political interference by the Trump administration.
The pandemic also disrupted one of the Census Bureau’s most important programs, the one-year American Community Survey, which provides a wide-ranging picture of the U.S. on everything from commute times to education levels. Bureau officials announced earlier this year that the 2020 survey won’t be released in its usual format this fall because of troubles collecting data during the pandemic.
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to get around the idiocy of the original "white/black/yellow" European-manufactured "races" for their ethnic groups. In general most of the world goes by ethnicity.
But what was originally doubled down here in the U.S. resulted in issues such as Egyptians like this, who were/are considered and classified as "white" - https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/09/04/detroit-immigrant-wants-to-be-re-classified-as-black/
The nonsense of the 1977 "Directive 15" that applied in the above case is excerpted here - https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/populations/bridged-race/directive15.html
where the continent of Africa gets partitioned off no matter what color someone is, as having anyone born in the "north" automatically classified as "white" (yet the furthest southern regions of Europe have no such reverse distinction). So these Nubians in southern Egypt (and I have been to Egypt) would have been classified as "white" because "Eqypt = northern Africa = white" - https://theworld.org/stories/2017-07-24/egypt-s-indigenous-nubians-continue-their-long-wait-return-ancestral-lands
And that applied to all "Arabs" as classified as "white" including DU's once-favorite punching bag, Bandar Bin Sultan -
This is why over the past 4 decades, there has been a shift to "self-reporting" and room for "mixed race", with an attempt to preserve some continuity with the past because so much discrimination happened due to assigned "race" (based on "how you looked" but then with special carve-outs for certain geographic locations), but account for the ethnicity.
Traditionally, the "white" Hispanics had been applied to Spaniards but obviously since Spain colonized far and wide and interbred with many many indigenous peoples around the world, the whole thing became a big mess where goal posts were constantly moved depending on the circumstance to keep the racial pot stirred and pit groups against each other. The irony of Spain was of course the African Moors' invasion and 700 year occupation there.
Keep the Repukes far away from the Census. Don't let them ever f**k it up again.
