I’m Not a White Man but My Employer is Forcing Me to be One

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Mostafa Hefny, an Egyptian-born man who identified as Nubian, sued the United States government in 1997 to change his racial classification from white to black.

Since the 1940s, people of North African and Middle Eastern heritage have been legally classified as white on the US census. During the turbulent and highly prejudiced decades that followed, it was to their social and economic…