Posted on 02/24/2023 5:52:19 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Biden administration's $1.2 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) gives cities a blank check for hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants. An astonishingly massive windfall for municipal budgets. Janet Yellen, U.S. Treasury Secretary, followed up by forming an Advisory Committee on Racial Equity (a.k.a. TACRE) to ensure cities channel those funds and future federal grants towards racial equity justice.
The Committee's mission is to "identify, monitor, and review aspects of the domestic economy that have directly and indirectly resulted in unfavorable conditions...for persons of color."
The ulterior motive is to produce a permanent mechanism that is a data-driven approach forcing racial equity justice outcomes. Leftists refer to the concept as "democratizing data," a contrary term that is an affirmative action contrivance.
At the TACRE launch, Ron Nirenberg, ultra-leftist Mayor of San Antonio, promoted (see this 45-second clip) the City’s first-of-its-kind working Equity Atlas model as the best practice for measuring and doling out resources based on equity. The City’s Equity Atlas is a workaround to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
San Antonio's model assigns equity scores by census tracts and then aggregates them by districts. Census tracts can earn a favorable score based on the higher percentage of Spanish as a first language, high illiteracy, people of color, and below-median household income. Census tracts with the highest scores receive prioritized resource allocations—violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and Article 1 of the Texas Constitution. Shouldn't the City focus on tracking spiking crime rates and street potholes instead?
Case Study
The City of San Antonio's Equity Atlas is an ideal case study of how data-driven narratives are used for citywide equity goals and strategies. No surprise, the City is dedicating most of its $465.5 million in ARP grants for affordable housing, drug rehabilitation,
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Luckily, most of the funds will be siphoned off by fraud because anything actually spent on these problems will only make the problem worse by rewarding bad behavior.
Much of those funds will be funneled back into the Democratic party, leftists non-profit groups and activists. Which is the real purpose.
Collect no federal taxes for one year, let each person earn and spend their money and see what happens.
Equity is not equality, by any means. Equity means some kind of invested interest, that confers benefit upon the holder of that equity, like equity in real estate, or equity as in an insurance policy, implying a prior contribution.
Equality defines an entirely different concept, in that an evenly weighed and divided quantity of whatever the sum total of some goods, services, or various intangibles, each participant getting an exact equivalent amount, regardless of prior contribution.
Grants towards racial equity justice.
Decoded: Buy votes with bribes aka the new Green Deal
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
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