President Biden on Wednesday said "Environmental justice" for people of color will be a central feature of his efforts to combat climate change, again putting skin color and racial justice front and center in his early policy and personnel decisions.
Mr. Biden's early focus on what he calls "Systemic racism and white supremacy" in America generated pushback from critics and scholars who say they don't need a lecture from the commander-in-chief about the country's racial history.
"It is very difficult to call your people racist and then turn around and say I want to unify you." TOP STORIES 'New Cold War': Chinese president issues stark warning to Biden Declassified U.S. intelligence bolsters Wuhan lab theory in coronavirus outbreak Utah tribe blasts Biden's drilling freeze on federal lands as 'direct attack' on sovereignty One of Mr. Biden's first acts in office was to abolish what he called the "Offensive, counter-factual 1776 Commission" that Mr. Trump had set up to try to restore "Patriotic education" at national parks and in schools across the country.
"You cannot all of a sudden find the word slavery in a Constitution that does not mention slavery." Mr. Biden and his team say that they are righting wrongs embedded in American history and U.S. policy.
Mr. Biden said the country has tolerated the "Narrow, cramped" view that America is a zero-sum game where if one group gets lifted up, someone else necessarily gets shoved aside.
"We need to make the issue of racial equity not just an issue for any one department of government; it has to be the business of the whole of government." Terry Schilling, executive director of the American Principles Project, said Mr. Biden isn't interested in easing racial tensions and that he's simply playing to the base of the Democratic Party.
Sen. Marco Rubio slammed Mr. Biden for saying the police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 would have treated the rioters much differently had they been Black Lives Matter activists.
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