Biden’s Crackpot Race Czars
Just how many third-rate crackpots is Team Biden installing as political officers at the top of federal agencies? Beware: Felicia Wong is likely all too typical.
Just named vice chair of the Treasury Department’s new “racial-equity” committee, Wong vows to “make racial equity central to the Treasury Department’s mission.”
Treasury’s actual mission, per its website, is to “maintain a strong economy,” protect the nation’s “financial system” and manage government finances. With the economy headed for full-on recession, the financial system beyond shaky and the feds’ finances dire (the national debt’s now $31 trillion), that’s more than enough work.
But the prez is committed to pushing “equity,” the central buzzword for radical “racial justice” goals. So every agency has to set up a committee to (in Treasury’s case) “identify, monitor and review” aspects of the economy that have “resulted in unfavorable conditions for communities of color.”
And Wong clearly got the job because of her radical views. She comes in from running the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank that bashes capitalism and seeks to place “racial justice” in the “center” of government.
“Always considering race in policy design” is “vital,” argues a recent RI report Wong coauthored. It blasts “skills-based, opportunityfocused liberalism,” insists “racial capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy” are “significant barriers to racial justice.” It calls for wealth redistribution along racial lines: “True equity means equity of outcome.”
A 2020 report by Wong likewise slammed “free-market capitalist ideology.” And now she’s a top player at the US Treasury.
Again, she’s not remotely alone: The Defense Department’s education branch has a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion czar with a record of openly anti-white comments.
The people running Washington aren’t just paying lip service to racist claptrap: They’re making it their mission to govern that way, and to pack the federal workforce with extremist ideologues. They’re institutionalizing insanity.