Last January, newly elected President Joe Biden pledged to fight racism and unify the nation. Instead, during ๊his first year he’s imposed a harsh agenda of reverse racism in everything fromಌ distributing pandemic-relief aid to allocating scarce COVID treatments.
Racial favoritism꧃✱ is affecting every way this administration treats Americans.
New guidance from Biden’s Food and Drug Administration instructs states to reserve monoclonal antibody drugs for patients with medical risk factors such as obesity and kidney disease. But here’s the catch: The FDA is also urging them to consider race and ethnicity to be risk factors, apart from medical condi🧸tion.
So a black patie🅠nt with no health problems automatically will be put ahead of a white patient with no healt🦹h problems. That’s sickening. Every patient deserves to be treated as an individual, not a member of a group.
Biden’s Treasury Department is rolling out a $10 billion program to aid small-business owne♉rs with loans and grants. Businesses owned by minorities, women꧃, non-English speakers and ex-cons go to the front of the line.
Biden administration regulators use weasel words to obscure the truth about who will benefit from this . Regulators say “di🀅sadvantaged” groups, but that’s defined by race and ethnicity, not actual🥂 hardship.
Eligibility also includes anyone who has had “long-term residence in an environment isolated from the mains🉐tream of American society.” Translation: ex-cons. White male business owners who obey the ൩law and have never been incarcerated are out of luck.
It’s more of the same from this administration. Biden’s American Rescue Act, passed in March, is riddled with discrimination. That law divvied up taxpayer dollars to benefit minorities and shortchange whites in the name of equity. Minority farmers were offered no-strings loan forgiveness by Biden’s Agriculture Department, but white farmers were ineligible.
Biden’s Restaurant Revitalization Fund pushed minority and female restaur꧅ant owners to the front of the line for whopping giveaways — up to $10 million per business owner. Sorry, white🌱 men.
Federal judges have suspended these programs until white challengers get their day in court. Biden’s woke push for equity abandons America’s greatest principle — equality before the law. But Biden persists, pandering to his political supporters. Equal rights be d𓄧amned.
💝The infrastru🌠cture bill passed in November is chock full of anti-white racism. It includes grants to install solar and wind technologies in depressed areas. But when contractors bid, minority-owned businesses will get selected first.
The bill also allocates money to improve urban traffic patterns. Contractors and subcontractors get priority only if they’re owned by minoriꦇties or women. White male business owners can take a hike.
So can Asians, in Biden’s view. On Dec. 13, Biden’s Justice Department not to hear a challenge to Harvard University’s admissions policies, which plaintiffs say deny admissions to Asians who have grades and test scores far higher than black and whiteꦆ applicants.
The Trump Justice Department was committed to challenging these racial preferences, and the American public is supportive. Nearly three-quarters of Americans oppose considering race and ethnicity in admissions decisions, and that includes 65% of Hispanics and 62% of blacks, according . In November 2ꦛ020, California, the most left-wing and r🧔acially diverse state in the country, voted against reinstating affirmative action in state hiring and public-university admissions.
Biden’s Education Department is dangling federal grants to en✱courage💖 state education bureaucrats to adopt critical race theory and the factually challenged New York Times “1619 Project.”
The administ🐼ration continues the indoctrination and reverse racism in the workplace. Is this what Americans want? Absolutely not. Three-quarters of Americans oppose using race to decide who’s hired and promoted, .
Biden is ignoring that. He’꧂s cynically giving his political backers what they want and in the process ripping deep wounds into the nation.
When blacks and Latinos are ushered to the front of the line for medical treatments, get first dibs on pandemic relief funds or get hired♉ faster or admitted to college more easily, other people suffer. Lives and livelihoods are affected.
Americans want to be treated as individuals and to treat others t෴hat wa🔯y.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.
Twitter: @Betsy_McCaughey