Only two presidents before him have used their first weeks in office to push for equality with the same force, according to one historian.
The New York Times reporters and, perhaps, Joe Biden, don’t seem to know that “equity” has replaced “equality.”
Please note that “equity” is the term now used to dog-whistle to the woke that you intend “equality of outcome” rather than “equality of opportunity.” Politicians who demand “equity” are demanding, in effect, quotas at the expense of the careers of competent white men and their families.
By Jim Tankersley and Michael D. Shear
Jan. 23, 2021
WASHINGTON In his first days in office, President Biden has devoted more attention to issues of racial equity than any new president since Lyndon B. Johnson, a focus that has cheered civil rights activists and drawn early criticism from conservatives.
Biden Seeks to Define His Presidency by an Early Emphasis on Equity
Only two presidents before him have used their first weeks in office to push for equality with the same force, according to one historian.
President Biden made a pledge to defeat “white supremacy” during his Inaugural Address.Credit.Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Jan. 23, 2021
WASHINGTON In his first days in office, President Biden has devoted more attention to issues of racial equity than any new president since Lyndon B. Johnson, a focus that has cheered civil rights activists and drawn early criticism from conservatives.
In his inauguration speech, the president pledged to defeat “white supremacy,” using a burst of executive orders on Day 1 to declare that “advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our government.”
Font Size
Liberals love to insist they’re on the “right side of history,” and their confidence crests in the liberal dominance among academic historians. Just as the liberal media dominate our evaluation of day-to-day developments, liberals count on their historians to dominate our evaluation of the decades behind us.
It’s not just historians, but our taxpayer-funded storytellers, like the insufferable PBS documentarian Ken Burns. On the day before Biden’s inauguration, NPR’s
Morning Edition presented him like an American treasure with no partisan bias. So skip over his Ted Kennedy propaganda film for the 2008 Democratic convention, described by Politico as portraying him as “the modern Ulysses bringing his party home to port.
Liberals love to insist they re on the right side of history, and their confidence crests in the liberal dominance among historians. Just as the liberal media dominate our evaluation of day-to-day developments, liberals count on their historians to dominate our evaluation of the decades behind us.
It s not just historians but our taxpayer-funded storytellers, like the insufferable PBS documentarian Ken Burns. On the day before President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration, NPR s Morning Edition presented him as an American treasure with no partisan bias. So, skip over the propaganda film on Ted Kennedy he made for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which portrayed Kennedy, according to Politico, as the modern Ulysses bringing his party home to port.