February 17, 2021
‘Equity’: Reparations by Another Name
By Nicholas J. Kaster
Reparations for slavery, though largely disliked by the general public, garnered significant support among Democratic presidential candidates in 2020. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris openly supported the policy, as the New York Times noted in a feature piece that ran on February 21, 2020, headlined “2020 Democrats Embrace Race-Conscious Policies, Including Reparations.â€
Reparations, however, never polled well. In a Reuter-Ipsos survey released in June, for example, only 20% of Americans supported the idea. What’s more, only a third of Democrats supported it. Biden can read polls, so he waffled on reparations, promising instead to “study†the issue (a tactic he also employed in sidestepping the issue of court packing).
But the Left, always adept at verbal gymnastics, has merely responded by giving us reparations by another name: “Equity.†And Biden is fully on board. One of his first acts as president was to sign an “Executive Order Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.†“Underserved communities†encompass not only blacks, but Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LBGTQ+) persons.†Thus equity is far more expansive than reparations and would provide rewards to scores of accredited victim groups.
Biden said that the actions “were part of an effort to infuse a focus on equity into everything the federal government does.†Everything.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/02/equity_reparations_by_another_name.html
