On the heels of Joe Biden signing a record-breaking number of executive orders, now comes a nice-sounding pledge of equality. But people who listened closely to that promise heard something more Orwellian than equal justice under the law.
Susan Rice, director of the Domestic Policy Council, told White House reporters this week the Biden administration has “committed the whole of our government to advancing racial justice and equity for all Americans.”
Rice (pictured at right) made that announcement Tuesday at approximately the same time President Biden was signing four executive actions to address discrimination in federal housing; end the use of private prisons; “reaffirm” the federal government’s commitment to “tribal sovereignty;” and to “combat xenophobia” against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
It is the promise that the federal government will demand, promote, and ensure “equity” that caused a double-take for many Americans who recognize that “equity” for race and religion is not synonymous with “equality,” even though they sound similar and their meanings may overlap.
The overlap and similar meaning, in fact, earned the words an online post by Merriam-Webster, which states on its website the words share the same Latin root word “aequus” but differ greatly in proper usage.
“The idea that sometimes sameness of treatment (equality) does not result in proportional fairness (equity) is one way that these words are distinguished from each other, even in similar contexts,” the website explains.
After listening to Rice’s speech, Ed Vitagliano of the American Family Association says he was troubled when Rice mentioned “religious minorities” in her pledge of equity.
“Which, to me, means that religious majorities, i.e. Christianity, are going to be put under tremendous pressure to adapt our beliefs to their worldview,” Vitagliano warns.
Rice, in fact, complained last year about then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling him an “overtly religious” public official. She called that “problematic” because he is supposed to “represent all of America.”
Rice was complaining about Pompeo to MSNBC during the Republican National Convention, when he delivered a primetime speech from Jerusalem, but she defended the “equity” push this week because religion teaches us to “look out for one another.”
Vitagliano says Rice’s speech also raised alarm bells with him when she stated the average black family has “just one-tenth of the wealth of the average white family.”
The issue with that statement is not pointing out racial disparity or income inequality, Vitagliano says, but it is that the Biden administration is openly flirting with socialism to right society’s wrongs.
“It is a socialist idea to say that what you have earned you have no right to,” he tells One News Now. “The government and/or the broader society is going to take it away because there is a need that supersedes your right to the ownership of private property.”
His warning comes at the same time the far-left gospel of Marxism and social justice are no longer relegated to a leftist college professor or a fringe group of wannabe revolutionaries. The twin topics of racial justice and Marxist-inspired class resentment are being discussed in today’s churches as critical race theory and in mandatory corporate seminars where white employees are instructed about their “privilege” and their “systemic racism.”
After learning last fall the federal government was subjecting its own employees to such training, the Trump administration ordered it to stop. A Sept. 4 letter sent to federal agencies reads:
“All agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on ‘critical race theory,’ ‘white privilege,’ or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil.”
Biden, however, touched on that very topic while signing his executive orders this week.
“Our soul will be troubled,” he said Tuesday, “as long as systemic racism is allowed to exist.”
In the NPR interview after her speech, Rice was pressed about defining “equity” since writer Andrew Sullivan is accusing the Biden administration of using the federal government to give certain groups a “specific advantage and treatment” over other groups that are not being mentioned.
Rice predictably insisted that is a “false characterization” of what is happening and went on to name a laundry list of people who deserve a “level playing field” in America.
“Not just of black and brown Americans and people of color,” she told NPR, “but people in rural areas who have been left behind, people in urban and suburban areas, disabled Americans, religious minorities, LGBTQ Americans.”
Editor’s Note: The American Family Association is the parent organization of the American Family News Network, which operates OneNewsNow.com.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Yep, the guy that runs the 100 meters in the Olympics in 15 seconds, gets picked over the guy, who runs the 100 meters in 9.2 seconds. The world of the communists, where everyone is “equal” except for the bureaucrats at the top!
Thus far the only xenophobia I’ve heard of is from this President and the administration lackeys around him that it’s out there and needs to be combatted. No incidents have been reported on either local or national news that I have heard. No riots have occurred, no businesses have been burned except collateral damage from BLM and Antifa with their scortched earth actions.It must be a ploy to impose a sense of guilt on people who really have no concern or interest in placing blame!
Last time I read the statistics, whites were a 65%-70% majority!
WHY DO You think the left’s been SO HELL BENT ON importing every damn minority they can, SO THEY CAN GET RID OF that white majority.
Racism is any ideology which advocates that one race of people, due to their skin color, is inherently superior to another race of people, on any level, in any field. These people are advocating that members of one race are, due to the color of their skin, morally superior to the members of another race.
UNLESS you’re acting AGAINST WHITES< then it's seen as A-OK.
The Biden Administration is already very scary, and less than 10 days in!
THE GOVERNMENT UNDER BIDEN WILL CHOOSE MEDIOCRITY BECAUSE THEY ARE MEDIOCRE. IT IS NOT ABOUT RACE. IT IS ABOUT THEM.
China Biden will do what he is told by his communist masters.
William
Funny how being religious is “problematic” to leftists when it occurs in actual believing Christians, but is praiseworthy in someone like Biden who claims to be “devout” but who promotes practices that his (supposed) religion condemns and who threatens to punish people who won’t go along with those practices.
Like always, It seems IF WE DO IT, (conservatives), its wrong/bad/evil. IF leftists do it, its all good/right.
The “big liar” Susan Rice is so full of Donkey used oats!
the amount of executive orders of destruction this goofball incoherent dementia president has signed
makes him and his party look like a facist dictatorship.
and the gop just takes it up the wazoo with there spineless feckless loser attitude.
IT makes me also wonder, WHY EVEN BOTHER HAVING congress, if they’re just gonna rule VIA EXECUTIVE FIAT?!
Yeah everyone is equal except for the white people who have go go to the end of the line because they are not black people, squid-pro-joe is putting white people at the bottom of the ladder and all but making them slaves to the black people this is just wrong on every level you can imagine.
I wouldn’t be shocked, to see them not just tell us whites, to go to the back of the line, but flat out say “WE ARE NOT WORTHY of being vaccinated etc…”