By Samantha Chang | The Western Journal
As concerned
parents nationwide protest the insidious encroachment of critical race theory
into their children’s classrooms, Congress quietly passed a $1.2 trillion
infrastructure bill that incorporates CRT’s anti-white racism into multiple
taxpayer-funded programs.
Shockingly, the bill passed the GOP-controlled Senate on Tuesday with 19 Republicans — including Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — joining all the Democrats to advance “equity and
racial justice” in the restoration of America’s highways, roads, bridges,
railways, waterways and public transportation systems.
So the next time you drive on a local street, you should
be aware that the contractors who fixed the pothole probably weren’t selected
because they were the most qualified, but because they were ethnic minorities
or female.
Why? It’s because President Joe Biden’s “infrastructure” legislation made explicit
provisions requiring that federal contracts be awarded using affirmative-action
policies that prioritize a candidate’s skin color over his or her
qualifications.
“Contractors and subcontractors get priority only if
they’re owned by minorities or women,” the New York Post’s Betsy McCaughey
noted Wednesday in a scathing column. “White male business owners can take a
hike.”
McCaughey, who was the lieutenant governor of New York
from 1995 to 1998, decried the Democrats’ infrastructure legislation, saying it
“discriminates against white people at every turn.”
This isn’t surprising because Biden explicitly stated
that “equity and racial justice” underpin the infrastructure package and is a
recurring theme throughout the 2,700-page bill.
“The Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
addresses economic disparities in our economy and the consequences of decades
of disinvestment in America’s infrastructure that have fallen most heavily on
communities of color,” a White House “fact sheet” said of the bill.
Biden’s infrastructure bill will make sure that
“communities of color” get increased access “to good-paying jobs, affordable
high-speed internet, reliable public transit, clean drinking water and other
resources. These critical investments are first steps in advancing equity and
racial justice throughout our economy.”
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In other words, the president
and his party are opportunistically using America’s roads, subways and bridges
as vehicles for “racial justice” in a massive taxpayer-funded spending bill
that marginalizes white people and prioritizes minorities.
Some potholes and roads might
get fixed. But more importantly, according to Biden, billions of taxpayer
dollars will be spent to ensure that “communities of color” get “reliable
high-speed internet with an historic investment in broadband infrastructure
deployment.”
Along the way, Biden promises
to increase the awarding of federal contracts to minority-owned businesses “by
50 percent over the next five years.” In other words, government contracts will
no longer be awarded on the basis of qualifications and price but on an
applicant’s skin color.
Again, this anti-white
discrimination isn’t surprising, because it’s a pattern with this
administration.
Earlier this year, Biden tried
to ram through a $4 billion program that bailed out minority farmers but
excluded white farmers — regardless of financial need. That meant that a black
farmer who didn’t need the money would get bailed out, while a white farmer who
was struggling would get no federal aid.
Naturally, Biden tried to sneak
this provision into his coronavirus relief bill, even though bailing out black
farmers does nothing to combat the pandemic. Fortunately, a federal judge blocked the program, saying it was
discriminatory and racist.
Another part of Biden’s
infrastructure bill involves building and repairing street grids and parks in
black neighborhoods. Don’t white neighborhoods also have potholes and need
parks?
The legislation also calls for
investing billions to protect minority neighborhoods from floods and wildfires
by “elevating buildings, roads, and bridges, hardening physical infrastructure,
and winterizing the power grid.”
Meanwhile, white neighborhoods
can fend for themselves.
As the Post’s McCaughey pointed
out, “there are plenty of poor white people in this country, too, and poor,
predominantly white communities that could benefit from a bold federal
infrastructure initiative. … Under the guise of upgrading the nation, the bill
unfairly treats whites like second-class citizens.”
Biden’s overtly racist attempt
to infuse “equity” into every policy decision he makes will have catastrophic
consequences. This is what happened in South Africa.
South African author Rian Malan
— a white journalist who fought against apartheid — said the U.S. will crater
into the same anarchy and poverty that afflict his homeland if it keeps caving
to toxic wokeness.
In a New York Post commentary titled “How ‘Equity’ Ideology
Plunged South Africa into Inequality and Chaos,” Malan recounted how white
guilt decimated his country.
He said the crumbling began
when South Africa replaced meritocracy with affirmative action and bent over
backward to cater to its black population to make amends for apartheid.
“Tendering for government
business became increasingly pointless, because contracts were invariably
awarded to black-owned firms, even if their prices were double, triple or
tenfold,” Malan wrote.
For years, South African
corporations hired and promoted black employees “whether or not they brought
anything to the table besides black skin,” Malan wrote.
He added: “Firms were also
required to meet racial quotas in hiring and ensure that management was
racially representative, meaning roughly 88 percent black.”
This eradication of standards
in the name of achieving “equity” destroyed South Africa’s economy and led to
the total breakdown of society, Malan said.
“Investment dried up. Brains
drained,” he wrote. “The economy stagnated, causing unemployment to surge to
11.4 million today, from 3.3 million in 1994.
“The upshot: utter misery for
the underclass, doomed to sit in tin shacks, half-starved, watching the black
elite grow fat on the pickings of equity laws and rampant corruption.”
This is the road the United
States is heading down if we don’t wake up and start putting the best interests
of the country first instead of virtue-signaling ourselves into ruin.
Demonizing white people and disempowering black people
by encouraging them to view themselves as “oppressed victims” will only result
in more racial division and societal chaos.
