With another defeat in the courts for President Joe Biden, a simple fact must be acknowledged: The Democratic Party’s top priority is pushing racially discriminatory policies.
On Thursday, a judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Biden administration from discriminating based on race or ethnicity when distributing funds from the American Rescue Plan to farmers. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack had defended the policy on the grounds that we must “acknowledge the cumulative effect of discrimination.”
Vilsack’s contention that we must discriminate against people now to address discrimination in the past is not just his own. It is the position of the Biden administration, which, not even six months in, is no stranger to pushing racial discrimination or racial quotas.
It was just last month that another of Biden’s discriminatory policies was blocked by the courts. Biden’s Small Business Administration had been allocating $29 billion in relief funds solely to restaurants whose owners were nonwhite or women. The logic was the same: In Biden’s view, past discrimination mandates present-day discrimination.
Race is the guiding principle of Joe Biden and his administration. Biden has promised that if a vacancy ever opens up on the Supreme Court, he will appoint a black woman. He has no one in particular in mind; he simply wants to assure the country that he plans to disregard qualified nominees based entirely on their race and gender.
The Democratic Party, too, uses race as its North Star. That was obvious when various Democratic politicians lobbied Biden to make his Cabinet selections based on race, with California Rep. Ro Khanna admitting that he would have been more likely to oppose Lloyd Austin leading the Defense Department if Austin were white.
This discrimination is not coincidental or an innocuous side effect of Democratic policies. It is central to the party’s agenda. Its top priority is not helping the country prosper as we emerge from the pandemic; it is the toxic idea of “equity,” which demands that race be put at the forefront of any and all policy questions.
We know what “equity” means. It means the racial discrimination that Biden and congressional Democrats have openly endorsed and attempted to force on the public through government agencies. It means that Asian students are rejected from Ivy League schools and advanced high schools because of their race. It means a doctor can be fired from his job and hounded by a Democratic district attorney because he vaccinated “too many Indian names.”
The rot of racial politics has taken over the Democratic Party. President Biden has continued to push discriminatory policies even as the courts have routinely dismissed them. This is not unity or “building back better.” It is anti-American, and every instance of it must be resisted.
