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This incident is just another episode in the controversy surrounding the HCRA and its founder and director, Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences John D. Graham, who was tapped by President George Bush to head the powerful Office of Management and Budget (OMB...
Graham is not allowed to comment to the press under the terms of his nomination process, but according to spokesperson for the OMB Chris Ullman, Graham intents to combat the conclusions of the report when he is again able to speak publicly...
...OMB has limited the conversation about diversity within the American population to a defined group of topics; they're only interested in certain categories, and those are the categories via which we are all counted. For example, you can't be African and not black, according to the Census Bureau construct. And that doesn't make sense...
...Zuberi: Well, simply put, because the Office of Management and Budget, which makes decisions like this, told the Census Bureau to make "Hispanic" a category on the form. The so-called "Hispanic" population is a creation of this political discourse. The question then becomes, why did the OMB decide to juxtapose an ethnic designation like "Hispanic" with a racial designation, like "black"? Ethnicity and race are not interchangeable categorizations...
Harvard University Provost Harvey V. Fineberg called Graham "a national leader in the field of risk analysis," in a press release announcing the news and "an excellent choice to head OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs...