Despite invoking the need for unity, the Biden transition team chose to put out the following divisive statement describing how the next administration will approach economic recovery:
“Our priority will be Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, women-owned businesses, and finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and rebuild.” — President-elect Biden pic.twitter.com/pIyDuhf5pH
— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) January 10, 2021
As businesses continue to suffer under government lockdown orders and other restrictions, it is appalling to see any suggestion that efforts to relieve this pain will involve consideration of race, gender, and other irrelevant demographic characteristics.
Biden does not appear to be a true-believer of the woke ideology gaining ground on the left, but the fact that he would make such a statement and that his PR flaks would choose to highlight its most divisive quote suggests we can expect to see more corrosive racial and gender politics under a Biden administration.
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