{"id":167426,"date":"2021-01-30T03:11:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/judge-everyone-by-the-color-of-their-skin\/"},"modified":"2021-01-30T03:11:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:11:13","slug":"judge-everyone-by-the-color-of-their-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/judge-everyone-by-the-color-of-their-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Judge everyone by the color of their skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Judge everyone by the color of their skin<\/strong>”
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On Tuesday, six days into Joe Biden\u2019s administration, it became clear why Susan Rice, hitherto a foreign-policy specialist, was named director of the Domestic Policy Council. Rice \u2014 unconfirmable for a Cabinet post after her unembarrassed Sunday-show lying about the Benghazi terrorist attack \u2014 ventured into the White House press room to preview Biden\u2019s \u201cequity\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n

With one possible exception, the specific policies announced were less important than the word \u00ad\u201cequity,\u201d invoked 19 times by Rice and nine by Biden. Ending federal private prison contracts and combating \u201cxenophobia\u201d against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are small potatoes as federal policies.<\/p>\n

Not so, perhaps, with the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing initiative, started under former President Barack Obama, repealed under former President Donald Trump and now due for spirited revival. The idea is for the feds to reverse local zoning laws and plant low-income housing in suburbs deemed insufficiently diverse.<\/p>\n

Actually, discrimination in housing has been reduced since the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act, to the point that in metropolitan areas from Washington to Atlanta to Los Angeles, most blacks now live in suburbs, not in the central cities.<\/p>\n

But for Rice and Biden, \u201cequity\u201d requires not equality of opportunity but equality of results. That\u2019s one of the fundamental tenets of critical race theory training banned by outgoing Trumpites and reinstated by Biden on Day 1.<\/p>\n

A lower-than-population percentage of blacks in any desirable category, explains critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi, must be the result of \u201csystemic racism\u201d (a term Rice used twice and Biden six times Tuesday). If you don\u2019t agree, you\u2019re guilty of \u201cwhite fragility\u201d and you must be a \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Andrew Sullivan trenchantly observes, \u201cto achieve \u2018equity\u2019 you have to first take away equality for individuals who were born in the wrong identity group. Equity means treating individuals unequally so that groups are equal.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is exactly contrary to the central thrust of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It could easily be judged, in particular cases, to violate the 14th Amendment. Individuals discriminated against might have standing to go to court.<\/p>\n

And there will surely be many such individuals. Rice made clear that the policies mentioned Tuesday are just a start. \u201cEvery agency,\u201d she said, with no suggestion of exceptions, \u201cwill place equity at the core of their public engagement, their policy design and program delivery to ensure that government resources are reaching Americans of color and all marginalized communities \u2014 rural, urban, disabled, LGBTQ+, religious minorities and so many others.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a lot of preferred categories, but one suspects that, as in George Orwell\u2019s \u201cAnimal Farm,\u201d some preferred groups will be more preferred than others. What we\u2019re being promised is racial quotas and preferences in every conceivable program, in every possible corner of American life.<\/p>\n

It may be objected that the United States is already well on its way to such a state of affairs. Quotas and preferences are firmly, almost fanatically, ensconced in higher education. Corporate America\u2019s human resources departments, Kendi\u2019s most eager clients, revel in imposing quotas and enforcing \u201cequity\u201d orthodoxy.<\/p>\n

Even so, something still sticks in the craws of most Americans about treating some people differently on account of race or ethnic identity. \u201cYou don\u2019t get to unite the country by dividing it along these deep and inflammatory issues of identity,\u201d Sullivan writes.<\/p>\n

Proof of this came from the unlikely precincts of California last Nov. 3. Democratic politicians under the influence of critical race theory asked voters to vote yes on Proposition 16 to overturn Proposition 209 barring state government, including universities, from discriminating on the basis of race.<\/p>\n

Some $20 million was spent to pass this Proposition 16, versus only $1 million to uphold Proposition 209. Yet Prop 16 \u2014 and the legalization of racial quotas and preferences \u2014 was rejected by California voters 57 percent to 43 percent.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an even wider margin than the 55 percent to 45 percent by which 209 won in 1996, even though California has become far more Democratic since then.<\/p>\n

That suggests the Biden and corporate elite project to create a United States of Racial Quotas and Preferences is in conflict with a strong underlying current of American opinion that favors equal rights under law.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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