Posted on 02/12/2021 5:02:59 PM PST by karpov
The first time Shelby Steele used the word “equity” in one of his books—“White Guilt,” published in 2006—he was referring to the value his father had accrued in restoring “three ramshackle homes to neat lower-middle-class acceptability.” This was in 1950s Chicago, a city the author describes as “virulently segregated.” Shelby Steele Sr., a Southern-born black truck driver who’d left school in third grade to work the fields, concealed his homeownership from his white employer. He was afraid he’d be fired for “getting above himself.”
No bank would loan the elder Steele money, so he used bricks, discarded lumber, and cast-off roofing shingles to render the properties rentable. “That’s what we used to call equity,” says Mr. Steele, the son. “The sense of the word I grew up with has no relationship at all to the meaning it has taken on today.”
Mr. Steele, 75, is a longstanding conservative commentator on race in America and a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. We speak over Zoom a week after President Biden signed an Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity, intended to address “entrenched disparities in our laws and public policies, and in our public and private institutions.” In his remarks at the signing, Mr. Biden seemed to suggest that his is a project aimed at reshaping American governance. “We need to make the issue of racial equity not just an issue for any one department of government,” the president said. “It has to be the business of the whole of government.”
I can almost hear Mr. Steele growl in his study in Monterey, Calif., as I read these words aloud. “This equity is a term that has no meaning,” he says, “but it’s one that gives blacks power and leverage in American life.
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“Equality” is equal opportunity.
“Equity” is equal outcome.
And the outcome is equal misery.
Sloth figures in there somewhere...
Equity is Critical Theory. It is Marxism.
“Equity is Critical Theory. It is Marxism.”
Thanks.
Rd later.
Not if you are elite Stalin had strawberries eceryday
“Equity” is equal outcome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_of_outcome
“Equality of outcome, equality of condition, or equality of results is a political concept which is central to some political ideologies and is used regularly in political discourse, often in contrast to the term equality of opportunity.[2]
“It describes a state in which people have approximately the same material wealth and income, or in which the general economic conditions of their lives are alike. Achieving equal results generally entails reducing or eliminating material inequalities between individuals or households in a society and usually involves a transfer of income or wealth from wealthier to poorer individuals, or adopting other measures to promote equality of condition. A related way of defining equality of outcome is to think of it as “equality in the central and valuable things in life”.[3]”
In truth, these people don’t even want equal outcome. They want the position and the pay, but without the other things that come with it (work, results, responsibility and accountability).
Corporations may hire them, given them big salaries and loud titles — and them bury them somewhere that they can do no harm. If we are lucky, that is. To them, it will be a cost of doing business that will be passed on to everyone else.
Martin Luther King’s, “I had a dream”, now becomes Joe Biden’s, “I have a scheme”!
And equity should lose out to equal opportunity under the law since that’s what the Constitution guarantees.
Equality lost to privilege.
Unity lost to compliance.
All because of the democrat party.
FTA: Mr. Steele encountered plenty of discrimination in his youth. He couldn’t be a paperboy because they wouldn’t let black kids ride a bike through white neighborhoods at 6 a.m. He couldn’t be a caddy on a golf course. He couldn’t wash dishes at the local Greek restaurant because people would see his black hands on the plates. He couldn’t work at J.C. Penney because he couldn’t be seen laying clothes out on display. He couldn’t go to the schools he wanted because all schools were segregated.
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