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The Great Replacement in hiring:



Unfortunately, the executive level remains "white" (including Jewish) dominated for now.....

Nike deserves special praise:



By no coincidence:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/allies/bds-288/msg9378/#msg9378

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg21889/#msg21889

Immigrants are vastly underrepresented in elected office. This program is trying to change that

New American Leaders has trained more than 1,700 immigrants, refugees, and second-generation Americans to run for office. The goal: embrace their stories and redefine what a political candidate can...

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New American Leaders is a national nonprofit nonpartisan organization dedicated to training immigrants, refugees, and second generation Americans to run for office and manage campaigns. It provides the necessary resources so they can step into their own political power, NAL CEO and president Ghida Dagher said. The first thing that NAL does is ask participants to embrace their immigrant heritage as part of their new American background, rather than shy away from it.

To date, New American Leaders has trained more than 1,700 people across the country, and of those, at least 500 are in the organization’s Elected Officials Network, its diverse alumni base.

“Traditional political wisdom is that you have to look a certain way, you have to come from a certain kind of background, have access to a certain kind of network,” she said. “And so we have helped them redefine what [the] political system looks like.”
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In 2022, the average participant age was 30 years old, according to the organization’s own tally. Seventy-two percent of participants were women, 31 percent were LGBTQ+, and close to 30 percent were AAPI. They came from 21 states and the District of Columbia, representing different racial, ethnic, religious, political, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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The organization found that not one state has Asian American, Pacific Islander, or Latino representation in proportion to its population. To address this, the organization created a training specifically for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women. The program is conducted by AANHPI women, and the case studies are about AANHPI women.

NAL also found that unlike white state legislators, where men greatly outnumber women, new American state legislators have near gender parity, and Latina and Black new American women state legislators actually outnumber their male counterparts.

The biggest hurdles NAL has heard from trainees, Dagher said, is the “polarized political lay of the land that we are all experiencing,” whether it is racism, Islamophobia, or anti-LGBTQ sentiment.
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Camilleri said people of all backgrounds are needed when making decisions about a community’s future, and that Michigan has done a much better job recently of electing immigrants and people of color at the local and state levels.

“We know that when we are in the room, we’re making decisions that are reflective of all people’s voices, whether we’re talking about English language access, or Arabic or Spanish access on some materials,” he said. “Those types of decisions would never have been brought up unless people who come from communities like ours are in those spaces in the first place.”

Anyone interested in civic life can participate by showing up, going to meetings, getting appointed to local boards or commissions, or running for office, Camilleri said. When ready to seek public office, people should then seek out mentorship from others, whether at the local level or higher, he added.

Without this kind of active participation by people from all different groups, “we’re not going to have the government that serves us,” Camilleri said.
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“because we don’t see enough of us in these types of positions,” Yahya said. “I don’t see my people, specifically, Yemeni women and Yemeni Muslim women as well, out there being active and creating an impact and also creating spaces for people who are like me and have experienced things like me.”

Her big role model since she was in middle school is U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress. Yahya said she shares similar values, background, and work ethic with Tlaib.

“Rashida has my heart, she has my full heart. The way that she pulls herself and fights for everybody, has always been something that I looked forward to, and I’ve always wanted to become that type of person,” Yahya said.

“Now being actually able to work with her and work alongside her and fight alongside her in these types of battles, it’s inspiring,” said Yahya, who was a U.S. House of Representatives legislative caseworker for Rep. Rashida’s district.

“I also feel like I’m getting the necessary training to hopefully be able to be like her one day,” she added.
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She remembered coming to America as a refugee. On her first day of school in a conservative, all-white school in Ohio, everyone stared at her and made fun of her hair and clothes. She was 5 years old.

She ran to the bathroom, locked herself in and cried.

Mohammad realized that there are connections between this childhood story and how persistent and determined she is today.
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“What drives me to run is when I see these marginalized, vulnerable communities that keep suffering. That is my drive to help them because their voices need to be heard,” Mohammad said.

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Antisemitic Attitudes among Young Black and Hispanic Americans | Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | Cambridge Core

Antisemitic Attitudes among Young Black and Hispanic Americans - Volume 8 Issue 1

Cambridge Core · cambridge.org

Prior research has shown that racial minority groups are more likely than Whites to hold negative views of Jews. We discuss several theories that may explain this phenomenon, including group competition, anti-White attitudes manifesting as antisemitism, spillover from anti-Israel attitudes, and more. Some theories, especially those developed in the mid-20th century, may be less applicable today, particularly to young adults. Through an original survey of 3,500 Americans, including an oversample of 18–30 year olds, we discover that antisemitic views remain far more common among minorities than Whites, especially among young people.