By Kyle Winnick, Maduegbuna Cooper LLP (November 18, 2016, 11:00 AM EST) -- Is workplace discrimination based on a person's mutable, race-related traits unlawful employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency tasked with enforcing Title VII's provisions, believes that such discrimination may be unlawful, given the context, and has adopted the Office of Management and Budget's definition of "race": racial categories (e.g., Asian, Black and White) are "social-political constructs … and should not be interpreted as being genetic, biological or anthropological in nature."[1] Thus, according to the EEOC, if an employee suffers an adverse employment action because of such a social-political construct, Title VII is violated....