Rep. Rashida Tlaib to U.S. Census Director: "Do I Look White to You?"

Описание: During a hearing by the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) asks why people of color like herself must check Caucasian on the 2020 U.S. Census.

Steven Dillingham, U.S. Census Bureau director, testified in this hearing, which aired on C-Span on February 12, 2020.

Organizations have long been pushing for a separate Middle Eastern or North African category but realize it’s probably too late for 2020 with questionnaires ready to be printed. Advocates have unsuccessfully petitioned for the Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) category for the racial question on the 2020 census.

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Rashida Harbi Tlaib (born July 24, 1976) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 13th congressional district since 2019].

The district includes the western half of Detroit, along with several of its western suburbs and much of the Downriver area. A member of the Democratic Party, Tlaib represented the 6th and 12th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives before her election to Congress. She was the first Muslim woman to serve in the Michigan legislature.

In 2018 Tlaib won the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives seat from Michigan's 13th congressional district. She ran unopposed in the general election and became the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress and, with Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.