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NYC passes 'racial equity' measures, adds promise to remedy 'continuing harms' in city charter
Fox News ^ | 11/11/2022 | Alexendra Orbuch

Posted on 11/13/2022 7:46:46 PM PST by thegagline

New York City voters approved three ballot questions on Tuesday concerning race proposed by the city's Racial Justice Commission.

Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio established the commission in 2021 as a "temporary appointed government body that is tasked with reviewing the entire City Charter and proposing amendments," according to the commission’s 2021 final report.

One of the ballot measures approved in the Nov. 8 election creates a permanent Office of Racial Equity within the city government, along with a Racial Equity Commission to establish priorities and "review agency and citywide Racial Equity Plans."

Another ballot measure added a preamble to the city's charter stating that New York City "must strive to remedy ‘past and continuing harms and to reconstruct, revise, and reimagine our foundations, structures, institutions, and laws to promote justice and equity for all New Yorkers.’"

The third successful ballot measure proposed by the Racial Justice Commission mandates that the city draw up a yearly "True Cost of Living" measurement to look into the true cost of city living, including housing, childcare, food and other factors.

The commission promised to investigate "structural racism within NYC… to identify structural barriers facing Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern and all People of Color (BIPOC*) in NYC and, based on community input, has put forward Ballot Questions aimed at eliminating barriers and promoting racial equity."

In its "recommendations" section, it advocates for "public naming and acknowledgment of past harms and traumas" in the form of "public apologies, and reparative actions." In creating the commission, de Blasio likened the commission’s role in NYC to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission established in Apartheid South Africa. ***

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: newyork; nyc; race; racism
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The Racial Equity Commission AKA The Road to Rwanda
1 posted on 11/13/2022 7:46:46 PM PST by thegagline
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Racial equity? I love it!!!! Now I can sue for having been denied a $10 million a year NBA contract.After all 70% of the population is white yet 2% of NBA players are white.Therefore we need racial equity in the NBA.


2 posted on 11/13/2022 7:51:18 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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More anti-white racism enforced by government.


3 posted on 11/13/2022 8:10:06 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: thegagline

Doubling down on the stupid.


4 posted on 11/13/2022 8:14:51 PM PST by DarrellZero
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The Racial Equity Commission AKA The Re-assignation of Dr. Martin Luther King


5 posted on 11/13/2022 8:15:34 PM PST by lizma2
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assassination?


6 posted on 11/13/2022 8:17:33 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: thegagline

Glad that they’re finally going to do something about how bad the Irish were treated.


7 posted on 11/13/2022 8:18:05 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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Compared to living in New York City, life on the old cotton plantation doesn't seem so bad. There was plenty of fresh air, fresh food to eat, no unemployment. What's not to like.

8 posted on 11/13/2022 8:21:17 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

9 posted on 11/13/2022 8:25:42 PM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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To: thegagline

They will not stop until they have murdered every white person.


10 posted on 11/13/2022 8:33:49 PM PST by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an ele, ctric car.)
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To: Elsie

LOL! Never could spell!


11 posted on 11/13/2022 8:36:40 PM PST by lizma2
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To: thegagline

Racial equity is illegal. Blacks can bust their asses and compete, or they can remain perpetually last place.


12 posted on 11/13/2022 8:55:33 PM PST by EEGator
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To: thegagline

Great movie.


13 posted on 11/13/2022 8:57:24 PM PST by EEGator
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Even one Asian, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Inuit or white voter who voted for the Dems in New York is going to see how abominably stupid they were. Equity means revenge against non-blacks to hurt them, not justice.

Like the Soviet in the ending of Fail Safe who is heard on the hotline call to the White House shooting himself in the head at the Kremlin because he realized the Americans were telling the truth and he just made worldwide atomic war annihilation take place by his mistake.


14 posted on 11/13/2022 9:33:08 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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This is why I’m for secession. There are too, many, different groups in the U.S. clamoring for their own interests as “minorities” and come from socialist countries. I hope I see it in my lifetime, maybe not, but it will happen. Chinese run China. Japan runs Japan. So and so forth. Only the West has the pathological Altruism.


15 posted on 11/13/2022 9:39:08 PM PST by sumuam
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Even one Asian, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Inuit or white voter who voted for the Dems in New York is going to see how abominably stupid they were.


No, they’re not. That isn’t going to happen. They’re tribal and vote in an egalitarian manner. If they had any sense of improving they would have done it in their own countries first.


16 posted on 11/13/2022 9:42:35 PM PST by sumuam
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

:)


17 posted on 11/13/2022 9:57:42 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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The Racial Equity Commission AKA The Re-assignation of Dr. Martin Luther King

as·sig·na·tion

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NOUN

1. an appointment to meet someone in secret, typically one made by lovers:

"his assignation with an older woman"

synonyms:

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Regards,

18 posted on 11/13/2022 11:51:19 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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We pretty much already had that equity philosophy before the election, even though it wasn’t codified in the law.

Everything is about “race” these days. Such a simple concept. Everyone can understand it.

Only problem is it defeats exactly what it is trying to attain: equality.


19 posted on 11/14/2022 12:01:26 AM PST by firebrand
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To: alexander_busek

Thank you Karen.


20 posted on 11/14/2022 3:15:10 AM PST by lizma2
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