Within hours of being sworn in as the new governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order Tuesday banning the official use of the term “Latinx” in state government.
It is one of the first, if not the first, executive order of its kind, Tabitha Bonilla, an associate professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University, told NBC News.
It was one of seven orders signed by Sanders, a Republican. The others focused on banning Arkansas schools from teaching critical racial theory, budgeting and spending, and other government issues.
In it government press releaseit is pointed out that the reasons for the measure once morest “Latinx” is that the Royal Spanish Academy has officially rejected the use of “x” as an alternative to “o” and “a” in Spanish and that, according to Pew Research, only 3% of Latinos and Hispanics in the United States use the word to describe themselves.
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