Just days after Vice President Kamala Harris suggested “giving resources based on equity” in providing hurricane relief, the Biden administration doubled down on its woke obsession with “equity.” The Biden Treasury Department announced the establishment of a new Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity. Its mission will be to “identify, monitor and review aspects of the domestic economy that have directly and indirectly resulted in unfavorable conditions for Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color.”
It is no surprise that the committee is stacked with left-wing social justice progressives.
Michael Nutter, the David N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Affairs at Columbia University and former mayor of Philadelphia, is the committee’s Chair. In June 2020, shortly after the killing of George Floyd, Mr. Nutter castigated the entire nation as racist. Mr. Nutter posed a whole series of accusations in the form of loaded questions, which were based on the premise that America is systemically racist and has never stopped trying to keep the black population down. Here are some samples.
“When, America, will you get tired of kneeling on the necks of the Black people you captured and brought here for your slave labor?”
“When will you tire of the daily effort to hold Black people back from ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’?”
“When will be the right time to talk about what you have done to Black people, how you made our lives hell, why you did what you did, and what you think can be done to fix what you have done?
“Aren’t you tired yet from holding your knee or foot on our collective necks for 400 years?”
At the end of his harangue, Mr. Nutter warned America that “we will…make you uncomfortable until you not only listen, but actually start hearing us and changing your behavior and systems.” (Emphasis in the original) Now he will have the chance to pose these questions and demand radical solutions as Chair of the Treasury Department’s new equity committee.
The Vice Chair of the new racial equity committee, Felicia Wong, is more radical than Michael Nutter, who at least at times has shown some support for the police and has acknowledged the severe problem of black-on-black crime plaguing major urban centers.
Vice Chair Felicia Wong sees the police as the enemy. She advocated for defunding the police in a report she co-authored for the Roosevelt Institute back in 2016, which charged that racial bias leads to “police brutality.” The report recommended that police budgets should be “reduced.”
Ms. Wong is the president and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, a far-left organization that wants to “reimagine” capitalism. The Roosevelt Institute rejects what it calls “neoliberalism” and “racial liberalism” because supposedly they have “upheld a racial capitalism that subjugated people of color with racist rules while ignoring and revising history—promoting race-neutrality while exacerbating existing inequalities.”
In November 2021, Ms. Wong co-authored a report for the Roosevelt Institute entitled “A New Paradigm For Justice And Democracy.” Its subtitle is “Moving beyond the Twin Failures of Neoliberalism and Racial Liberalism.”
The report stated that “the demands of today’s racial justice movement stem from several core values,” which it listed:
“freedom and liberation: a vision for individual and collective self- determination, free from systemic oppression; repair and redress: an honest reckoning of America’s legacy of white supremacy and violence, followed by concrete, reparative action to redress those harms; and material equity: an equitable distribution of resources, decision-making power, and material outcomes.”
The report co-authored by Ms. Wong used the term “equity” forty times and defined it.
“True equity means equity of outcome,” the report stated, “and not accepting the promise of ‘opportunity’ within a system that continues to systematically exclude.” (Emphasis added)
Elaborating on this theme, Ms. Wong and her co-author wrote: “Equity goes beyond equal access and opportunity. It means equitable material outcomes, closing gaps—in wealth, income, health, criminal justice, education, and more—that have persisted for generations and worsened over the last half-century. It is about a distribution of resources and of decision-making power, with an emphasis not only on individual equity but on equity for communities that have historically been excluded.”
This is the old wine of socialism in a new bottle branded as “racial equity.”
Others among the twenty-five committee members are not much better. Here are six examples who have displayed racial equity wokeness in action.
One of the members, Nicole Armand, described policing as “a profession that is built on a set of values, training programmes, reward systems that incentivise and motivate…racist actions.”
Another committee member, Georgetown Law Professor Dorothy Brown, has embraced critical race theory. Her 2021 book is entitled “The Whiteness of Wealth : How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans – and how we can fix it.” She also has written “Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials and Problems.” One of her current projects is a book on reparations.
Lorella Praeli is the Co-President of Community Change and Community Change Action, whose “strategy is to create the conditions for transformational change that moves us in the direction of justice, equity, and an inclusive democracy and economy.” She was formerly ACLU’s deputy national political director and director of immigration policy and campaigns, which focused on expanding immigrants’ rights, including illegal immigrants.
Ms. Praeli has also supported the defund the police movement. “#DefundThePolice isn’t just a hashtag. It’s a mandate to divest from racist policing, which disproportionately kills Black people and Latinos and feeds the deportation pipeline, and instead invest in a #caringeconomy that prioritizes working families and serves us all,” she tweeted in 2021.
Amanda Renteria is the CEO of Code for America, which emphasizes the need to “address deep inequities threaded into our country’s history and work toward more equitable outcomes for the people we serve.” (Emphasis added)
Darrick Hamilton is a university professor and founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. He served as a national surrogate in Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign and played a key role in advising Senator Sanders on some of his more left-wing “economic justice” policies, including housing, student debt, and education. Professor Hamilton is a proponent of what is known as stratification economics, which a 2022 article that he co-authored said was aligned “with the critical race theory concept of ‘the property rights in Whiteness.’”
The Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity will waste taxpayers’ money producing predictable woke pronouncements by its ideologues on how America needs to be fundamentally transformed to remedy the so-called continuing evils of systemic racism. It is another pitiful example of the Biden administration’s deference to the left-wing progressive base of the Democrat Party.
Just a bunch of criminals and terrorists who not only blame their own failures on others, but also want to get paid for and rewarded for doing nothing.
In 2008 I recognized Barack Obama as fraud. Has anyone from the so-called MSM ever asked to see his academic records from Occidental College, Columbia U, or Harvard? Why has no one ever called him out for his blatant and most obvious lies? He said his parents could never have met were it not for the March. 1965 Civil Rights March over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but he was born in August, 1961! The man is a LIAR and one of the most obvious frauds in human history. He sounds like he probably read the canned briefs in law school. He’s also gay, NOT THAT THERE WOULD BE ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT, EXCEPT HE LIES TO HIS CHILDREN AND THE WORLD.
Yeah, but he’s THEIR liar and fraud!!
Obama was a shot gun president being for everyone even the gays worst enemy who are Muslims. Obama wanted earthly power and that is all.
Wasn’t Obama the only Editor of the Harvard Review who never wrote a single article? Seems to me his Resume’ was being written way back in High School, and ultimately written as fact in his two autobiographies. But I wrote him off as soon as he sneered that his Grandmother was a “typical White woman”. Never mind she paid for him to go to the best school in Hawaii and dressed him and fed him ! Seemed to me he owed her his respect at the very least. But then he made this preposterous statement after he got the 2008 nomination for POTUS : .”.it was the moment when the rise of the Oceans began to slow and our Planet began to heal”. That is Narcissism 2.0 ! But the White voters loved him…..” His speeches are amazing, he’s so articulate! ” My answer was Yes, so was Hitler, but the White folks voted for him in droves (TWICE) and what did we get for it? The worst Racial Divide since the Civil Rights Era and it continues today with CRT poisoning every institution in this Country and Obama has his puppet in the White House with Susan Rice pulling the strings.
His comment about his grandmother is positively reprehensible. I agree. He’s an angry narcissist.
Asian immigrants make higher income on average than white Americans… So ‘splain to us why they need special consideration from the gubmint???
In reality for ALL of these programs there are only TWO races… the subsaharan African race and everybody else.
Income makes people to think of themselves only. That is one reason why money is evil. How much money can I make? It is not about people.
I thought the segment of excrement oblama was going to HEAL the racial crap or was that HEEL the racial crap?? I have always seen things through a prism of COMMON SENSE! Our NEXT R Administration must have the HOUSE and SENATE and then pass ONE LAW dealing with RACE/Sex : NO decisions nor actions may be permitted based on RACE or SEX with the understanding that BIOLOGICAL SEX will be the DETERMINANT! That’s it – simple – easy to read – should be – SHOULD BE – easy to understand! That puts EVERYONE on EQUAL TERMS! No “equity” needed! And I still think they are full of crap to use “equity” since “Equity” is what you have when you subtract LIABILITIES from ASSETS! Now “equality” is a different animal all together! Along with the SIMPLE LAW, we ABOLISH ALL the PROGRAMS that FUND RACISM! EVERY SINGLE ONE! If you want to be a doctor in the USA then you can be one – IF – you are smart enough and work HARD enough! Being a certain color or having a certain sex organ SHOULD NOT be considered – it’s simply YOUR ABILITY to DO A JOB!!
Doesn’t Treasury have an Inspector General and isn’t his/her mandate to investigate “waste, fraud, and abuse?” I think I have somewhere for him or her to start.
To say treasury as in money is calling God a liar saying he gave us every good gift from above. God’s mind needs to be in our mind.
A Federal committee to advance racial division. Just what the Devil ordered.
Yip, yip, yep. The Devil wants division. Division as we know it did not exist before 1492. Money did not exist ether.
So basically, steal more from me, and pass out unearned rewards to the usual “protected” groups. Yawn. At least they actually said the words “equity of outcome”. Resistance becomes duty.
THEY promote the use of the “equity” sledgehammer that aims only for some preferential realignmnet, demoting or devaluing white lives and their values, to avoid equality, a situation that every normal sane respectful person would and should strive for, but not them…
Pigmentationocracy?
Pigmentocracy?
With Joe”Bitye Me”it’s Destroy Our Energy Independence!!!As far as “Racism”goes,let’s Create Something that Doesn’t Exist.It’s called”Divide and Conquer”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think about this: people came here to then conquer the Indians. Money came with them dividing between us and them, and whoever else that did not have money. It is not the United States. It is the divided states one from another ever since the creation of this country.
Mr. Nutter is well-named.
“… never stopped trying to keep the black population down.” <<< How hilarious!
I like Black people… especially on Family Feud… they give some of the most shocking and most stupid answers anyone can think of…
We need Black people… they're great for entertainment… haha…
What have any of these jokers ever contributed to our country?
They need to take a walk through every veteran cemetery in this country.
Most buried there are white christian men. Or what they refer too as “white privledge” or colonialists.
Uggggggg. Nauseating to say the least.
Mr. Nutter is aptly named. You can get up now, Mr. Nutter — you’ve been free to make something of yourself for over 150 years. Not that there haven’t been those who would hold you back, often those same who pose as your friends and benefactors. You have to be smart enough to know your friends from your enemies. Maybe its just easier to stay down and claim there’s a ‘boot on your neck’ than it is to stand up like a man.
Ms. Wong is ‘wong’ about just about everything. Sounds like a very misguided and militant harridan. Ms. Wong, we are not social insects. We are not clones. The DNA of every human on earth is unique. We are all different, our lives vary, and so do our accomplishments. No one commissioned the government to be the great leveler. There’s nothing in our country’s ‘mission statement’ (the Constitution) about the government redistributing wealth. The government is a referee, hopefully not playing for one team or another. If you think you can change the Constitution then go ahead and try, but I trust that there are still sufficient numbers of those who can see the folly of your ways.
The next R Administration needs to go full steam with “EQUITY”! I’m serious! BUT, they need to insist and push policies that put the “EQUITIZING” where it belongs – with PRIVATE CITIZENS! BUT, where will the BILLIONS originate to be distributed to “race equity”?? SIMPLE! One SIMPLE LAW that reforms CAMPAIGN FUNDING (buying of politicians)! We pass a LAW to END all these “PACS” – ALL OF THEM! NO deductions for contributions – NO writeoffs for operations – NO INVOLVEMENT IN ELECTIONS! All campaign funding reverts back to the PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE OFFICE!! CITY offices = CITY residents! COUNTY offices = COUNTY residents! Congressional Districts = DISTRICT residents! Statewide = STATE residents! National = US INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS! Now the LEFT has pushed for “Equity” so how EQUAL can one be treated if they cannot afford to attend a $10,000 per PLATE political favoritism events?? NO – Contributions need to be LIMITED to what an AVERAGE American CITIZEN can afford – I’d say no more than $250 PER YEAR! That would put the “politicians” back where they belong – in the streets and knocking on doors! There’s no reason why a Senate campaign in GEORGIA gets 90% of their funding from CALIFORNIA! THIS INSANITY HAS TO END!!
They are including ASIANS even though as a whole they are doing better than whites? Is this just a way to harm whites? There are MANY whites who are impoverished. This is scary stuff. I hope they can be sued for their discrimination.
INTERESTING……………….. Given Biden has a long and documented history of RACISM!
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY? I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. TULSI GABBARD
JOE BIDEN – A LIFETIME OF LIES!
In reality, Biden had never marched during the civil rights movement, according to Matt Flegenheimer of the New York Times.
“More than once, advisers had gently reminded Mr. Biden of the problem with this formulation: He had not actually marched during the civil rights movement,” wrote Flegenheimer. “And more than once, Mr. Biden assured them he understood — and kept telling the story anyway.”
REALITY
On the 14th of August 2020, Politico Magazine, in a lengthy article, revealed for the first time Barack Obama’s true opinion of Joe Biden together with his warning to the people of America. During the 2020 primary Obama told a fellow Democrat: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.” STEVE McCANN
Joe Biden: Unfit for Office
By Gary M. Wilmott
Never in American history has a major political party nominated two candidates for president and vice-president who are so manifestly unfit for the elective offices they seek.
Joe Biden, the corrupt, unaccomplished 47-year career politician, with a reputation of having been a proud segregationist, an unabashed plagiarist and liar, a resolute tale-teller, and a serial flip-flopper, is pretending to head up a radical social-democratic ticket for President of the United States that includes as his running mate the ambitious, disagreeable junior senator from California: Kamala Harris.
Biden, Obama’s vice-presidential lackey for eight years (a period of unprecedented corruption and personal enrichment for both men), has always craved power and attention. But unfortunately for Joe, his mouth, hands, and nose have consistently undermined his presidential ambitions.
Lots of those whites who the black nut Nutter castigates as racists voted for him.
How about equity-based taxes? Equity-based use of the carpool lane? Equity-based civil and constitutional rights? Let’s go ruin America just the way Soros has planned
The “qualifications” of these people needs to be vetted and so-called moderate Dems should be asked to register their approval. This action is truly awful and reflects so much about the kind of leader Joe Biden really is. We taxpayers get to pay for this group’s travel, get-togethers and productions. Outrageous! House hearings in January please!
America has been a country of equity. The problem today is that the morons believe that giving parasites free crap will give them equity.
All races are equal, but some are more equal than others.
They are pandering to minorities under the guise of “equity,” but the goal is COMMUNISM !
Dumb, dumb, Biden. Racial is not in the word human. Racial is not in the word people. Money made people to seem to be different one from the other. Money is destroying God’s treasury. The catholic church caused this problem. This problem did not exist before 1492. We need to not be our own worst enemy not talking like Jesus; not doing the peacful works of Jesus. Police and islam are fear me. God does not want us to fear him. They that make others to fear others, will fear him when he seen as he is. God did not think of the word budget regarding money. Money keeps the distributing of resources from happening. What people call wealth is the problem. Religious Sodomites had what is called democracy. It is not Immigrants. It is the infusing of Muslims into this continent. Muslims are not obeying the Father God. The being Muslims bow down to cannot use the name Father God.
Reparations for Slavery or more of this kind of stuff the Democrats will do any thing and say anything to appease the Globalists/UN/CFR