Biden’s “Equity” Belongs to Obama

 

The fulcrum of the Biden administration is “equity,” which is only vaguely defined, yet is directed to be practiced by every department and integrated into every executive action and bill.  On his first day, Biden signed an executive order creating “woke government” by empowering Domestic Policy Council Director Susan Rice to “coordinate efforts to embed equity principles, policies and approaches across the Federal Government."

— Dennis M. Powell, The Hill

The Biden administration is, as Obama himself said during a recent interview, “essentially finishing [my] job.” Obama added, “Ninety percent of the folks who were there in my administration, they are continuing and building on the policies we talked about, [including] figuring out how do we improve the ladders to mobility.”

“Mobility” is another word for “equity,” the socialist, utopian goal of equal results (“to each, according to needs”) that replaces the traditional American “equality of opportunity.” Government engineers “equity” through race-based “affirmative action,” now overseen by Obama loyalist and Domestic Czar Susan Rice (see Dennis Powell quote above).

Like V.I. Lenin in What is to be done?, Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf, and Mao Zedong in On Contradiction, Obama is open about his goal. He expects the third Obama administration to “have an impact,” to change “5 percent of the electorate,” and “that makes a difference.” 

Obama:

I was both a manifestation of the more progressive views that young people brought to politics in 2008, and 2009, 2010, and I think my presidency helped to solidify a huge tilt in the direction of progressive politics among young people that is now continuing into their 30s as the millennials, and even the Gen Zers.

Trump, Obama recently argued to Anderson Cooper, solidified the views of "millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety.”

Here, Obama is suggesting that Trump jammed racism into the national dialog. Yet it was not Trump but Obama in 2012, before Trump entered politics, who when Trayvon Martin was killed said, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” Obama thereby helped make Trayvon a Black martyr.

Then, in late 2014 after the acquittal of the white police officer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Obama stated, “communities of color aren’t just making these problems up. . . The law too often feels like it’s being applied in a discriminatory fashion. [T]hese are real issues.” Obama was saying that Ferguson’s mostly white police force needed affirmative action.

Obama injected race into politics. He rallied Blacks, other people of color, progressives and youth sensitive to color against whites, or what Obama calls the “White American Majority.” After all, as Obama told Anderson Cooper, his coalition was up against those “stoking the fear and resentment of a white population that is witnessing the changing America, and seeing the demographic changes [i.e., the declining white majority], and doing everything they can to give people the sense that their way of life is threatened.”

As his effort to divide America racially continues, it will be enough in Obama’s eyes to shift “5% of the electorate.”

In fact, race is dividing us. When Trayvon Martin was shot and before Ferguson, 72% of whites and 66% percent of blacks said American race relations were either “very good” or “somewhat good.” When Gallup next asked the question about race relations two years later, whites who thought relations were “very good” or “somewhat good” had fallen off a cliff, from 71% to 45%. The black number had dropped from 66% to 51%. By 2020, the black number was down to 36%.

Just seven years took American perceptions of race relationships from solidly optimistic to solidly pessimistic. Next, Obama’s progressive state plans to rebuild racially-flawed America using affirmative action to advance equity, with Critical Race Theory its Bible.