"Urgent: Recognize and Count America's Emancipation Proclamation Descendants -Sign Now!
"Urgent: Recognize and Count America's Emancipation Proclamation Descendants -Sign Now!
The Issue
To: SHALANDA D. YOUNG, DIRECTOR & OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET
TELL SHALANDA D. YOUNG & THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET
TO STOP the genocide and erasure of FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANs!
SIGN THE PETITION TO COUNT THE AMERICAN CITIZENS DESCENDED FROM PERSONS EMANCIPATED IN 1865.
More than 500 years ago, prisoners of war from Africa were forcibly brought to North America and enslaved. Their merging with Free Blacks, Europeans, and Native Americans was an “ethnogenesis” creating a NEW diverse group known by various names, including Black, Negro, Colored, Mulatto, African American, and Black American. Despite this array of labels, they are united by lineage as a foundational American population, who have risen from the depths of enslavement to achieve global recognition as soldiers, builders, farmers, scholars, scientists, and entertainers. Their physical abilities and intellectual achievements have contributed to making the United States the wealthiest country in modern history and the most culturally influential nation.
American citizens descended from Free Blacks and enslaved Negroes, referred to in the US Constitution as "Negro Freedmen," possess a unique heritage that is distinctly North American and must be protected at ALL COSTS!
OMB's MARCH 2024 DECISION to relegated this group of foundational Americans to the only racial designation in the lexicon of the United Stated government IGNORES THE DEMANDS FROM MORE THAN 12,000 AMERICANS!
CITIZENS appearing at OMB public forums calling for an ethnicity designation to facilitate the disaggregation of demographic data.[In response to this call to action, in March 2024, the OMB announced that it would deny Americans citizens descended from Persons Emancipated in 1865 the right to self-identify, be counted, and enforce their civil rights.
The OMB’s failure to act perpetuates systemic inequality, deepening the lineage wealth gap within the Descendant community. Worse yet, this arbitrary labeling denies their distinct identity, contributions, and essential protections.
The caste system perpetuated by the OMB’s arbitrary and capricious denial of self- determination efforts of Negro Freedmen] The caste system perpetuated by the OMB’’s arbitrary and capricious denial of the self- determination efforts of Negro Freedman] serves no purpose other than discrimination [as exemplified by the] stark disparities in economics, healthcare, [most aspects of American life]. [The OMBs failure to treat Negro Freedman with the parity they deserve similar to other ethnicities is] a glaring testament to gross negligence.
By denying Negro Freedman right to self-identify, while allowing other groups, such as MENA (Middle Eastern and North African), to do so, is a blatant violation of equal protection principles. A separate box would mean accurately addressing their economic needs, ensuring they are properly counted in demographic data, enforcing their civil rights and protecting cultural assets.
COMPLY WITH EXECUTIVE ORDER 13985 by establishing a separate non-racial category for American citizens who are the descendants of Persons Emancipated in 1865 on SPD 15
2. IMMEDIATE MANDATE for ALL federal, state, and local agencies—those entrusted with federal funding—to meticulously capture disaggregated race and ethnicity data in their employee, vendor, and beneficiary databases.
3. PARTNER with Impacted Community Grassroots For Community Outreach to ensure impacted Americans are made aware of the opportunity to finally be accurately enumerated to ensure equitable access to resources, rights and protections owed to them as Descendants of Persons Emancipated in 1865.
FACTS AND FINDINGS
More than 500 years ago, prisoners of war from Africa were forcibly brought to North America and enslaved. Their merging with Free Blacks, Europeans, and Native Americans was an “ethnogenesis” creating a NEW diverse group known by various names, including Black, Negro, Colored, Mulatto, African American, and Black American. Despite this array of labels, they are united by lineage as a foundational American population, who have risen from the depths of enslavement to achieve global recognition as soldiers, builders, farmers, scholars, scientists, and entertainers. Their physical abilities and intellectual achievements have contributed to making the United States the wealthiest country in modern history and the most culturally influential nation.
American citizens descended from Free Blacks and enslaved Negroes, referred to in the US Constitution as "Negro Freedmen," possess a unique heritage that is distinctly North American and must be protected at ALL COSTS!
OMB's MARCH 2024 DECISION to relegated this group of foundational Americans to the only racial designation in the lexicon of the United Stated government IGNORES THE DEMANDS FROM MORE THAN 12,000 AMERICANS! CITIZENS appearing at OMB public forums calling for an ethnicity designation to facilitate the disaggregation of demographic data. In response to this call to action, in March 2024, the OMB announced that it would deny Americans citizens descended from Persons Emancipated in 1865 the right to self-identify, be counted, and enforce their civil rights.
The OMB’s failure to act perpetuates systemic inequality, deepening the lineage wealth gap within the Descendant community. Worse yet, this arbitrary labeling denies their distinct identity, contributions, and essential protections.
The caste system perpetuated by the OMB’’s arbitrary and capricious denial of the self- determination efforts of Negro Freedman serves no purpose other than discrimination as exemplified by the stark disparities in economics, healthcare, and most aspects of American life. The OMBs failure to treat Negro Freedman with the parity they deserve similar to other ethnicities is a glaring testament to gross negligence.
By denying Negro Freedman right to self-identify, while allowing other groups, such as MENA (Middle Eastern and North African), to do so, is a blatant violation of equal protection principles. A separate box would mean accurately addressing their economic needs, ensuring they are properly counted in demographic data, enforcing their civil rights and protecting cultural assets.
Why is this important?
American citizens who are Descendants of Persons Emancipated in 1865 deserve a separate box for self-identification to address systemic issues of economic exclusion, undercounting, and civil rights enforcement. These American citizens, whose ancestors fought in every war and many of whom were here before America was a country are referred to as "Negro Freedmen" in the US Constitution. These individuals have a unique historical and cultural heritage that is distinctly North American and in danger of erasure.
To address these critical issues, it is imperative to support the petition for the creation of a separate non-racial ethnic group for American citizens descended from Persons Emancipated in 1865. This is a call to action to acknowledge and respect their distinct heritage and to address the systemic barriers they face in achieving economic and social equity.
BACKGROUND
Executive Order 13985: Signed on January 20, 2021, this order requires federal agencies to assess and address inequities in their policies and programs, including the disaggregation of data to better understand and address the needs of different ethnic communities.
Negro Freedmen: As outlined in the 13th and 14th Amendments, Civil Rights Act 1866, who are the formerly enslaved in the United States and Free Blacks (previously subjected to Fugitive Slave Acts) here before 1870, who were emancipated nationally in 1865.
Descendants of Negro Freedmen: Americans citizens who are direct descendants of emancipated American slaves and Free Blacks here in the United States before 1870.
OMB's Action: Despite clear directives from Executive Order 13985, the OMB has failed to establish a separate non-racial category for the descendants of Negro Freedmen. In contrast, the OMB has established a new category for Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA).
Impact on Descendants of Negro Freedmen:
The failure to create a separate non-racial category has resulted in a lack of resource allocation, perpetuated inequality, and exacerbated the lineage wealth gap among a disproportionate number of those American citizens descended from Persons Emancipated in 1865, and an ongoing failure to enforce civil rights protections.
RACIAL WEALTH GAP
Executive Order on Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government | The White House
How it will be delivered
Shalanda D. Young, Director
Office of Management and Budget
725 17th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20503
372
The Issue
To: SHALANDA D. YOUNG, DIRECTOR & OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET
TELL SHALANDA D. YOUNG & THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET
TO STOP the genocide and erasure of FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANs!
SIGN THE PETITION TO COUNT THE AMERICAN CITIZENS DESCENDED FROM PERSONS EMANCIPATED IN 1865.
More than 500 years ago, prisoners of war from Africa were forcibly brought to North America and enslaved. Their merging with Free Blacks, Europeans, and Native Americans was an “ethnogenesis” creating a NEW diverse group known by various names, including Black, Negro, Colored, Mulatto, African American, and Black American. Despite this array of labels, they are united by lineage as a foundational American population, who have risen from the depths of enslavement to achieve global recognition as soldiers, builders, farmers, scholars, scientists, and entertainers. Their physical abilities and intellectual achievements have contributed to making the United States the wealthiest country in modern history and the most culturally influential nation.
American citizens descended from Free Blacks and enslaved Negroes, referred to in the US Constitution as "Negro Freedmen," possess a unique heritage that is distinctly North American and must be protected at ALL COSTS!
OMB's MARCH 2024 DECISION to relegated this group of foundational Americans to the only racial designation in the lexicon of the United Stated government IGNORES THE DEMANDS FROM MORE THAN 12,000 AMERICANS!
CITIZENS appearing at OMB public forums calling for an ethnicity designation to facilitate the disaggregation of demographic data.[In response to this call to action, in March 2024, the OMB announced that it would deny Americans citizens descended from Persons Emancipated in 1865 the right to self-identify, be counted, and enforce their civil rights.
The OMB’s failure to act perpetuates systemic inequality, deepening the lineage wealth gap within the Descendant community. Worse yet, this arbitrary labeling denies their distinct identity, contributions, and essential protections.
The caste system perpetuated by the OMB’s arbitrary and capricious denial of self- determination efforts of Negro Freedmen] The caste system perpetuated by the OMB’’s arbitrary and capricious denial of the self- determination efforts of Negro Freedman] serves no purpose other than discrimination [as exemplified by the] stark disparities in economics, healthcare, [most aspects of American life]. [The OMBs failure to treat Negro Freedman with the parity they deserve similar to other ethnicities is] a glaring testament to gross negligence.
By denying Negro Freedman right to self-identify, while allowing other groups, such as MENA (Middle Eastern and North African), to do so, is a blatant violation of equal protection principles. A separate box would mean accurately addressing their economic needs, ensuring they are properly counted in demographic data, enforcing their civil rights and protecting cultural assets.
COMPLY WITH EXECUTIVE ORDER 13985 by establishing a separate non-racial category for American citizens who are the descendants of Persons Emancipated in 1865 on SPD 15
2. IMMEDIATE MANDATE for ALL federal, state, and local agencies—those entrusted with federal funding—to meticulously capture disaggregated race and ethnicity data in their employee, vendor, and beneficiary databases.
3. PARTNER with Impacted Community Grassroots For Community Outreach to ensure impacted Americans are made aware of the opportunity to finally be accurately enumerated to ensure equitable access to resources, rights and protections owed to them as Descendants of Persons Emancipated in 1865.
FACTS AND FINDINGS
More than 500 years ago, prisoners of war from Africa were forcibly brought to North America and enslaved. Their merging with Free Blacks, Europeans, and Native Americans was an “ethnogenesis” creating a NEW diverse group known by various names, including Black, Negro, Colored, Mulatto, African American, and Black American. Despite this array of labels, they are united by lineage as a foundational American population, who have risen from the depths of enslavement to achieve global recognition as soldiers, builders, farmers, scholars, scientists, and entertainers. Their physical abilities and intellectual achievements have contributed to making the United States the wealthiest country in modern history and the most culturally influential nation.
American citizens descended from Free Blacks and enslaved Negroes, referred to in the US Constitution as "Negro Freedmen," possess a unique heritage that is distinctly North American and must be protected at ALL COSTS!
OMB's MARCH 2024 DECISION to relegated this group of foundational Americans to the only racial designation in the lexicon of the United Stated government IGNORES THE DEMANDS FROM MORE THAN 12,000 AMERICANS! CITIZENS appearing at OMB public forums calling for an ethnicity designation to facilitate the disaggregation of demographic data. In response to this call to action, in March 2024, the OMB announced that it would deny Americans citizens descended from Persons Emancipated in 1865 the right to self-identify, be counted, and enforce their civil rights.
The OMB’s failure to act perpetuates systemic inequality, deepening the lineage wealth gap within the Descendant community. Worse yet, this arbitrary labeling denies their distinct identity, contributions, and essential protections.
The caste system perpetuated by the OMB’’s arbitrary and capricious denial of the self- determination efforts of Negro Freedman serves no purpose other than discrimination as exemplified by the stark disparities in economics, healthcare, and most aspects of American life. The OMBs failure to treat Negro Freedman with the parity they deserve similar to other ethnicities is a glaring testament to gross negligence.
By denying Negro Freedman right to self-identify, while allowing other groups, such as MENA (Middle Eastern and North African), to do so, is a blatant violation of equal protection principles. A separate box would mean accurately addressing their economic needs, ensuring they are properly counted in demographic data, enforcing their civil rights and protecting cultural assets.
Why is this important?
American citizens who are Descendants of Persons Emancipated in 1865 deserve a separate box for self-identification to address systemic issues of economic exclusion, undercounting, and civil rights enforcement. These American citizens, whose ancestors fought in every war and many of whom were here before America was a country are referred to as "Negro Freedmen" in the US Constitution. These individuals have a unique historical and cultural heritage that is distinctly North American and in danger of erasure.
To address these critical issues, it is imperative to support the petition for the creation of a separate non-racial ethnic group for American citizens descended from Persons Emancipated in 1865. This is a call to action to acknowledge and respect their distinct heritage and to address the systemic barriers they face in achieving economic and social equity.
BACKGROUND
Executive Order 13985: Signed on January 20, 2021, this order requires federal agencies to assess and address inequities in their policies and programs, including the disaggregation of data to better understand and address the needs of different ethnic communities.
Negro Freedmen: As outlined in the 13th and 14th Amendments, Civil Rights Act 1866, who are the formerly enslaved in the United States and Free Blacks (previously subjected to Fugitive Slave Acts) here before 1870, who were emancipated nationally in 1865.
Descendants of Negro Freedmen: Americans citizens who are direct descendants of emancipated American slaves and Free Blacks here in the United States before 1870.
OMB's Action: Despite clear directives from Executive Order 13985, the OMB has failed to establish a separate non-racial category for the descendants of Negro Freedmen. In contrast, the OMB has established a new category for Middle Easterners and North Africans (MENA).
Impact on Descendants of Negro Freedmen:
The failure to create a separate non-racial category has resulted in a lack of resource allocation, perpetuated inequality, and exacerbated the lineage wealth gap among a disproportionate number of those American citizens descended from Persons Emancipated in 1865, and an ongoing failure to enforce civil rights protections.
RACIAL WEALTH GAP
Executive Order on Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through The Federal Government | The White House
How it will be delivered
Shalanda D. Young, Director
Office of Management and Budget
725 17th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20503
372
Supporter Voices
Petition created on July 11, 2024