I don't doubt that some MENA want their own race. My question is what privilege do MENA gain from this change.
If you can't cite an example of someone being thrown in jail for being Arab-American, okay.
Albright's comment was about people who were perceived as the enemy. Do you think the tens of thousands of German civilians who died in the Dresden firebombing weren't white? Your race reductionism erases all other factors.
Medical outcomes have far more to do with class than the pseudo-science of race.
Race is only a few hundred years old. There's no reason it can't disappear just as other pseudo-sciences have disappeared.