Forbes: Will the new MENA category help or hurt our DEI efforts?

Not everyone is on board with the new MENA categorization. “I think it's a terrible idea,” indicated anti-racism and decolonization coach Louiza “Weeze” Doran. “I think that it begins to function the way we’ve seen the erasure of Afro-Latine and Indigenous populations within Latin America and are currently fighting for recognition and more expansive language. It's going to function in the exact same way. The way that I view it is a very intentional political erasure through language. North Africa is a very large geographical location...so is the Middle East. Historically different, geographically different, culturally different, linguistically different.”

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