{"id":420931,"date":"2021-04-14T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=420931"},"modified":"2021-04-14T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T14:28:33","slug":"is-everything-racist-four-everyday-things-the-biden-administration-presents-as-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-everything-racist-four-everyday-things-the-biden-administration-presents-as-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Everything Racist? Four Everyday Things The Biden Administration Presents As \u2018Racist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-everything-racist-four-everyday-things-the-biden-administration-presents-as-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=420931&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1827.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The Biden administration presents the dismantling of \u201csystemic racism\u201d as one of its primary goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/01\/20\/executive-order-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government\/\"><span>executive order<\/span><\/a><span> signed on his first day of office, President Biden declared that \u201centrenched disparities in our laws and public policies, and in our public and private institutions, have often denied that equal opportunity to individuals and communities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Due to \u201cconverging economic, health, and climate crises\u201d \u2014 as well as a \u201chistoric movement for justice has highlighted the unbearable human costs of systemic racism\u201d \u2014 Biden unveiled a \u201cwhole-of-government equity agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Like many on the Left, President Biden and his closest advisers claim to observe racism in nearly every facet of American life, often conflating disparate outcomes with unconscious bias or institutionalized oppression. As a result, the Biden administration has adopted the increasingly popular \u201ceverything-is-racist\u201d ethos to offer dubious justification for their policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Here are four examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Fossil fuels<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>At the end of March, Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/03\/29\/white-house-announces-environmental-justice-advisory-council-members\/\"><span>unveiled<\/span><\/a><span> the \u201cWhite House Environmental Justice Advisory Council\u201d \u2014 a body that will advise bureaucrats on \u201chow to address current and historic environmental injustices.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Vice President Kamala Harris remarked that \u201cwe cannot achieve health justice, economic justice, racial justice, or educational justice without environmental justice.\u201d She added that the new group would \u201censure that our administration\u2019s work is informed by the insights, expertise, and lived experience of environmental justice leaders from across the nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Aside from the Vice President, members of the committee have a long <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/members-of-bidens-environmental-justice-advisory-council-have-history-of-radicalism-claiming-fossil-fuels-are-racist\"><span>history<\/span><\/a><span> of linking certain environmental policies \u2014 especially the support of fossil fuels \u2014 to racism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Susana Almanza, who directs an activist organization called People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources (PODER), said that her group is \u201cfighting big monsters; they\u2019re not little ones\u201d \u2014 a jab at oil companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beverly Wright, the director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, once told the Department of the Interior to investigate how the federal oil and gas program \u201cperpetuates environmental racism and the racial inequity of climate vulnerability.\u201d She has also linked energy development to Jim Crow, stating that energy laws \u201cwere deeply entrenched within the social structure of the Southern environment that worsened our quality of life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jade Begay, who works for the Indigenous Environmental Network, once connected climate change to \u201ccolonialism\u201d and alleged that \u201cclimate change isn\u2019t just a scientific issue \u2014 it\u2019s an issue of racial inequity, economic inequity and cultural genocide.\u201d She has additionally asserted that \u201cthe most important action needed now is to stop all new fossil fuel development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Far from defeating racism by cracking down on fossil fuel usage, the Biden climate agenda has so far gnawed at the pocketbooks of many disadvantaged Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President Biden\u2019s negative attitude toward fossil fuels immediately manifested in the loss of 11,000 jobs \u2014 a direct result of his revoking of the permit for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/buyers-remorse-unions-who-supported-biden-now-condemn-his-keystone-xl-executive-order\"><span>Keystone XL Pipeline<\/span><\/a><span>. Likewise, the left-leaning <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/opinions\/how-higher-gas-prices-hurt-less-affluent-consumers-and-the-economy\/\"><span>Brookings Institution<\/span><\/a><span> admits that high gas prices \u201cdo affect both consumers and the economy adversely, and they are especially harmful to lower- and moderate-income households.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Weather<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Providing a framework for his presidency, the Biden campaign <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/racial-economic-equity\/\"><span>platform<\/span><\/a><span> frequently invoked the issue of race to justify his more radical policies \u2014 including his climate change plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After claiming that George Floyd exemplified the \u201ctragic human costs of systemic racism,\u201d the platform stated that \u201cthe climate crisis mounts, with air and water pollution, superstorms and extreme weather, disproportionately impacting Black and Brown communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat is why racial equity is a distinct pillar of his Build Back Better plan, as well as incorporated in each of the other pillars,\u201d continues the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Elsewhere in the platform, the Biden team <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/climate-plan\/\"><span>alleges<\/span><\/a><span> that climate change contributes to migration \u2014 an assertion that Biden has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/biden-press-conference-border-question-immigration-nice-guy-weather-2021-3\"><span>repeated<\/span><\/a><span> as his administration oversees a record surge in illegal border crossings from Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joined the President in making similar <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/border-crisis-biden-pelosi-trump-climate-change#toggle-gdpr\"><span>accusations<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy most recent trip to the Northern Triangle, that would be Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, you saw the impact of the climate change, mind you,\u201d she claimed in an interview. \u201cThese people were leaving because of the drought. They couldn\u2019t farm and they were seeking other ways to survive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Student Loans<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden is also leaning on charges of racism to justify his openness to reducing student loan debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBlack graduates with a four year degree are five times more likely to default on their student loans than white graduates and a 2019 study found that Latino students are more likely than white students to default on their loans,\u201d reads his campaign platform. \u201cThe inequitable burden of student loan debt contributes to the stark racial wealth gap that exists in society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden thereby indicated a willingness to \u201cforgive all undergraduate tuition-related federal student debt from two- and four-year public colleges and universities and private HBCUs and MSIs for debt-holders earning up to $125,000.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In contrast to the Biden platform\u2019s claims, leading economists <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=16404\"><span>note<\/span><\/a><span> that student loan forgiveness is in effect a \u201chighly regressive policy\u201d that disproportionately benefits wealthier Americans.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Professor Sylvain Catherine and University of Chicago Booth School Professor Constantine Yannelis discovered that because African-Americans often carry large quantities of debt with low fair values, student loan repayments frequently cancel debt that would not have been repaid anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Financial technology<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>President Biden\u2019s platform takes a swing at \u201cfintechs\u201d \u2014 financial technology companies \u2014 for allegedly failing to provide \u201cresponsible access to all members of the community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Biden team supports the strengthening and expansion of the Community Reinvestment Act \u201cto ensure that our nation\u2019s bank and non-bank financial services institutions are serving all communities.\u201d Biden will expand the act to \u201cadd a requirement for financial services institutions to provide a statement outlining their commitment to the public interest, and, importantly, reverse new rules that allow these institutions to avoid lending and investing in all of the communities they serve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nevertheless, fintech innovation is almost universally recognized by economists as serving to increase global access to financial markets, including bank accounts and insurance policies. One recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/08\/financial-inclusion-fintech-underbanked-technology\/\"><span>MIT Technology Review<\/span><\/a><span> article highlighted the importance of fintech in helping economically underprivileged people who were \u201cdisadvantaged by the lockdowns everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration presents the dismantling of \u201csystemic racism\u201d as one of its primary goals.In an executive order signed on his first day of office, President Biden declared that \u201centrenched &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312155,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1827.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Is Everything Racist? 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