Obama strikes words ‘Oriental’ and ‘Negro’ from federal law

Posted by | May 20, 2016 21:00 | Filed under: Good News Politics

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It’s about time.

The measure sailed through Congress unopposed, a rare example of bipartisan agreement in an election year. It reached the president’s desk after the Senate unanimously approved it on Monday. It passed the House easily in February. “The term ‘Oriental’ has no place in federal law and at long last this insulting and outdated term will be gone for good,” the author of the bill, Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), said in a statement Friday.

Two sections in the U.S. Code written in the 1970s governing public health and civil rights attempted to define minority groups by using the outdated terms.

Thanks to the new law, references to the term “Oriental” will be replaced with “Asian American” and the word “Negro” will be changed to “African American.”

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2 responses to Obama strikes words ‘Oriental’ and ‘Negro’ from federal law

  1. fahvel May 21st, 2016 at 03:58

    you people will choke on your own words – vocabulary is vocabulary and dictating what is or isn’t is pure and simple ognorance and, sadly, a ploy to look good.

    • clemans May 26th, 2016 at 17:03

      I agree with you, I think it should just be American, every human is African, and we all came out of Africa so to say African American could refer to all of us.

      I filled out all all records since the first day of school for my oldest daughter with AMERICAN because that is what we are…..my ancestors started coming here in the early 1600’s, that makes us Americans, just like other citizens of this nation.

      We should stop trying to “look good” and start being factual…..we are all Africans and there is only one race, human.

      We can fight for this together and show them what can be accomplished when two people try.

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