Blacks Demand that Biden Get Serious about Ending White Supremacy and White Racism
And while you’re at it, pay us what you owe us.
He whipped, but seemed to take no pleasure in it. He was called by the slaves a good overseer.
— Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, May 1, 1845
Over 400 legislators, political activists, civil rights leaders, musicians, and actors have demanded that President Joe Biden not merely offer more heartfelt and sincere speeches, but that he provide actual, tangible support for a variety of Congressional bills now languishing in Congress and which are aimed at “leveling the playing field” for black people.
Those proposed (and long-deferred) measures address the dreaded diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts to make America own up to its hoary past, and finally begin to administer the long overdue reparative justice to its most maligned “minority” population — black Americans.
These folk are urging Biden to use his formidable constitutional powers and authority to issue executive orders to force, yes, finally force, white people to do right by black people.
The demand came in the form of a letter to the president. Interestingly, this is the third letter that these selfsame…
