Democrats and cultural progressives have taken to disguising their racism as “equity.” The legal system still sees through it, but this is not an issue that can simply be left to judges and elected officials.
President Joe Biden had ordered his Small Business Administration to prioritize minority-owned businesses when distributing relief funds. A federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction to stop this practice and noted that restaurateurs are “experiencing race and sex discrimination at the hand of government officials.” The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals did the same, with Judge Amul Thapar writing that “this case is about whether the government can allocate limited coronavirus relief funds based on the race and sex of the applicants. We hold that it cannot.”
Meanwhile, food delivery companies Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Postmates were forced to stop the practice of waiving fees for black-owned restaurants in Arizona. Arizona’s attorney general announced the settlement, bringing an end to the practice that the companies enacted shortly after the death of George Floyd in June 2020.
Yet, those companies remain defiant, insisting that they did nothing wrong in discriminating against restaurants based on their owners’ gender or skin color. And Biden had proudly proclaimed his goal of discriminating against applicants trying to keep their businesses afloat during the pandemic. The progressive notion of “equity” dictates that discrimination is not only acceptable but ideal. This is what Biden and these corporations that have embraced “social justice” believe.
The courts still recognize that discrimination is discrimination, and Arizona’s attorney general did his job. But he is an elected Republican, meaning he can be replaced. Judges ultimately resign or retire, and their seats can be filled by Democrats. The legal system stood strong, but that doesn’t mean it always will. There must be a cultural pushback as well.
That cultural push may have been slow out of the gate, but it is picking up steam now. It is becoming increasingly popular in the Republican Party to resist the toxic worldview under its academic guise of critical race theory. At the local level, parents have begun pushing back on school boards that promote progressive racism.
This level of resistance will need to be maintained. The Democratic Party is going to continue to push this racism of “equity,” along with the entertainment industry, higher education, “woke” corporations, and a large chunk of establishment media. The legal system alone can’t be a bulwark, and the false “equity” push won’t just fade away: It will be necessary to stave off the mainstreaming of this new form of racism at every turn, from schools to the cultural sphere.
