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- - - - According to this NPR article, "The complicated relationship many people with Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) origins have with whiteness is entangled with a naturalization system in the U.S. that, until 1952, imposed racial restrictions on which immigrants could become citizens."
        
        Sahar Aziz, a Rutgers University Law School law professor and author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.
        "They (MENA) argued they were white in court because the only immigrants that could naturalize to become U.S. citizens had to be found white by law."
        
        Anti-Black racism in the media and other parts of U.S. society has helped drive many immigrants from around the world to "disassociate themselves from Blackness and try to associate as close to whiteness as possible."
        
        Dissonance was underlined after the Sept. 11 attacks
        
        Census Bureau researchers concluded that including a "Middle Eastern or North African" category on questionnaires would be "optimal" in part because it "helps MENA respondents to more accurately report their MENA identities."
        The Obama administration took years to introduce a MENA checkbox to the census questions about race and ethnicity that Former President Donald Trump's administration tried to get passed. It requires approval from the White House's Office of Management and Budget, and the lack of a public decision by the OMB forced the bureau to drop the plans.
        
        In 2018, bureau officials also announced that the agency needed to conduct research and testing to address feedback from "a large segment of the Middle Eastern and North African population" who think MENA should be considered a category for an ethnicity, not a race.
- - - - I know this sounds very radical but with enough research, data collection, and knowledge that we have learned in the past few years, we can see that their is an issue with the system because it is creating large disparities in our nation.