Progressives Put the Racial ‘Equity’ Squeeze on Biden

Wall Street Journal ^ | February 2, 2021 | Jason L. Riley

[karpov]

President Biden likes to talk about “healing” and “unity,” but he also keeps pledging to prioritize the supposed interests of certain favored minority groups. When is he going to realize that his goals of racial unification and racial favoritism are at cross-purposes?

Last week Mr. Biden signed an executive order on “racial equity.” He said that George Floyd’s death last summer “marked a turning point in this country’s attitude toward racial justice” and is “forcing us to confront systemic racism and white supremacy.” He added that “this nation and this government need to change their whole approach to the issue of racial equity” and make it “not just an issue for any one department. It has to be the business of the whole government.”

Nothing quickens the pulse of progressives like talk of “systemic racism” and “white supremacy,” so it’s hard to know if Mr. Biden is just telling leftists what they want to hear. But if it’s more than that—if the president is serious about focusing on equal outcomes instead of equal opportunities—then heaven help us. Milton Friedman said the “society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither,” while “the society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.” Of course, Friedman had a constrained view of the government’s capabilities that isn’t shared by very many Democrats today. For them, good intentions are what matter most.

The political left has long used racism as an all-purpose explanation for racial disparities. This ignores that disparities down through history have been the norm, not the exception, and that they exist even in regions of the world where most people are of the same race.

[karpov]

Full article. Riley, a black man, sound like Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. Good.

[Cowgirl]

Too bad Dems got ahold of the blacks, it didn’t help them and now our society has accepted black culture as the norm. There is nothing normal about it...filthy music, 85 percent illegitimacy in cities, voter fraud, prison population, etc. President Trump promotes no alcohol, no drugs and no smoking. He is a good model for a decent society.

[Mark17]

He is a good model for a decent society.

Democrats prefer evil.

[Sir_Humphrey]

“Equity” = communism

[Organic Panic]

And black culture looks up to drug addled violent felons who die on camera. Floyd’s death was, indeed, a turning point. But only in the sense that it exposed the moral bankruptcy of the majority of black society and how willing democrats are to continue exploiting blacks for political power.