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   From: bksherman@sunpower.com   
      
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   "Buttsniffer Number P01369"  wrote:   
      
   President Biden’s embrace of utter nonsense pushed by the “woke”   
   continued with last week’s executive orders to “advance racial   
   equity” and “root out systemic racism in housing and criminal   
   justice.”   
      
   The “equity” approach assumes that any outcome that doesn’t meet   
   inane racial quotas is the result of bias. It is, in fact,   
   systematically racist.   
      
   The four executive orders Biden signed Tuesday don’t seem that   
   earth-shattering. He directed the Department of Housing and   
   Urban Development “to take steps necessary to redress racially   
   discriminatory federal housing policies,” told the Justice   
   Department to stop using private prisons, recommitted the feds   
   to honoring tribal sovereignty and vowed to combat “racism,   
   xenophobia and intolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific   
   Islanders.”   
      
   But, as the White House put it, his many “equity” orders set up   
   “a whole-of-government initiative to address racial equity and   
   support underserved communities, and redress systemic racism in   
   federal policies, laws and programs.” He’ll also require “all   
   agencies to take affirmative steps to promote diversity, equity   
   and inclusion.”   
      
   Notice that repeated word, “equity.” Liberals used to call   
   (rightly) for equality of opportunity — to have every American   
   treated the same way before the law. “Equity” demands equal   
   outcomes. If some group of Americans is doing better than   
   another, no matter the reason, government must fix it.   
      
   Tellingly, Biden in announcing his orders actually corrected his   
   own use of the “wrong” term: “I believe this nation and this   
   government need to change their whole approach to the issue of   
   racial equal — equity.”   
      
   Per the White House, Biden is bent on “embedding racial equity   
   across his administration’s response to COVID-19 and the   
   economic crisis.” That extends to de-facto quotas for small-   
   business support — making federal aid depend on skin color.   
      
   That’s un-American, but the White House said these steps are   
   “just the start.”   
      
   True: Some minorities have been harder hit by responses to the   
   pandemic. Public-school shutdowns and lame “remote learning”   
   efforts hit hardest at lower-income families who can’t afford   
   private tutors or private schools. But Team Biden is adamantly   
   against school choice, which would give such families real   
   opportunity to get their kids a quality education. And the   
   president has already declined to criticize the Chicago Teachers   
   Union for refusing to go along with school reopening.   
      
   In short, Biden’s not fighting against racial injustice — he’s   
   just giving Democratic interest groups and ideologues what they   
   demand.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/in-push-for-woke-equity-biden-   
   abandons-equality/   
      
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