The same might be said of the latest ethnic category, Middle East and North Africans (MENAs), which the Obama administration pushed through just before it left office.26 At the stroke of a pen, the White House had conjured up ten million new non-whites. Again, the move betrayed a technocratic itch to channel people into corrals. Lebanese Christians and secular Turks may have less in common with Sudanese Muslims than with whites. Yet overnight they could benefit from the same affirmative action to enter university as other minorities.
