Tag: racial equity

Biden’s Racism

Commentary Unless you’re a person of color or a favored minority, brace yourself to be treated unfairly by the Biden administration. President Joe Biden is pushing racial equity. That’s very different from equal treatment regardless of race. Racial equity means government can treat people unequally, discriminating against white people, to equalize outcomes. For the Biden…


The Phony Declaration of Woke 

Commentary If you go to the website of the school system of my city, here’s the first statement you see: “[school system] places racial equity at the center of everything that we do as a school division.” It’s not an unusual banner. Such Woke professions appear all the time at the head of educational organizations,…


New Bill Would Require Federal Reserve to Prioritize ‘Racial and Economic Justice’

The House of Representatives approved a bill on June 15 that would require the Federal Reserve to address social justice concerns, expanding the scope of the central bank’s mandate beyond its traditional priorities of price stability and economic well-being. The House voted in favor of H.R. 2543, the Racial and Economic Equity Act, which would…


Harrisburg Makes ‘Racial Equity’ Plan to Rebuild Pools for $13 Million in American Rescue Plan Funds

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Mayor Eric Papenfuse announced Thursday a plan to completely rebuild the city’s two aquatic facilities, using $13 million in American Rescue Plan Funding. But first, the plan requires approval from the city council. “Our pools were built in the aftermath of the racial unrest in Harrisburg in 1968,” Papenfuse said during the press conference…


Harrisburg Proposes ‘Racial Equity’ Plan to Rebuild Pools With $13 Million in American Rescue Plan Funds

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mayor Eric Papenfuse announced a plan on Oct. 14 to completely rebuild the city’s two aging public swimming pools, with $13 million in American Rescue Plan funds. “Our pools were built in the aftermath of the racial unrest in Harrisburg in 1968,” Papenfuse said during a press conference at the Hall Manor Pool. “It was…


JPMorgan’s Dimon Cautions a US Default Would Be ‘Potentially Catastrophic’

WASHINGTON—JPMorgan Chase & Co. has begun preparing for the possibility of the United States hitting its debt limit, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told Reuters on Tuesday, adding he nevertheless expected policymakers to find a solution to avoid that “potentially catastrophic” event. The country’s largest lender has begun scenario-planning for how a potential U.S. credit default…


Opinion: Weaponizing Race and Gender

Commentary Perhaps the most frightening thing happening in America is the weaponizing of race and gender. We need to be wary, because this is a war for power. This is a war to deny American citizens our Constitutional rights and to create a totalitarian society controlled by the woke left. We must not allow this…


Biden Proclaims ‘Racial Equity’ as Goal ‘Of the Whole of Government’

President Joe Biden has proclaimed a commitment to embed the quasi-Marxist “equity” ideology throughout the government. “We need to make the issue of racial equity not just an issue for any one department of government; it has to be the business of the whole of government,” Biden said in remarks on Jan. 26 before signing…


Racial Equity, Equality, and the Bureaucrats’ Charter

Commentary Reading one of the first new presidential executive orders—titled “Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government”—was for me a depressing experience. Even the term “racial equity” sent shivers up my spine: it was reminiscent of the terms “Jewish science” and “bourgeois morality,” as used by the…