WHITE HOUSE NOT COLOR BLIND-why is WH asking for racial

[rodeodance]

information? Looking for ME people or those that have some in their blood?


http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=617653

WITH PRESS, WHITE HOUSE NOT COLOR BLIND: Breaking with standard practice, the Secret Service has requested racial information on journalists and guests scheduled to attend a reception for White House correspondents tomorrow with President Bush. The Washington Post reports that White House reporters were offended that "after furnishing the customary information – name, date of birth and Social Security number – they were also asked for the race of each person expected to attend the small reception scheduled before the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner." Such policy "has not been applied universally," and anecdotal evidence "suggests the Secret Service is more frequently asking for racial information from journalists." Just last month, for example, "the Orange County Register reported that Cheney's staff requested race and gender information before the vice president would meet with the newspaper's editorial board."......

[MADem]

1. This is not the first time. They did this at a rally awhile back n/t

[MrBenchley]

2. Trying to reinstate Jim Crow...

Tell me this isn't a message to newspaper owners and managers that if they want White House access, they'd better have white reporters....

[JAbuchan08]

3. Maybe they're just trying to color coordinate their seating arrangements

they should have requested skin color swatches.

[ThorsHammer]

4. Just my guess, but they would place the minorities at the front

[Bridget Burke]

5. My thought, as well.

Generally, these gatherings are blinding in their Whiteness. A thin veneer of diversity must be applied.