{"id":9403,"date":"2015-07-15T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2015-07-15T00:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T07:15:59","slug":"the-inequality-of-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/07\/15\/the-inequality-of-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inequality of Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The City of Oakland, whose past Mayors include a communist and a man known as &#8220;Moonbeam,&#8221; has established a department of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Oakland-council-considers-department-of-race-and-6343141.php\" target=\"_blank\">Race and Equity<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Supporters of a controversial department of race and equity packed a special Oakland City Council meeting Monday, ultimately persuading the council to establish the department [of Race and Equity] permanently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But champions of the councilwoman&#8217;s department, who arrived to Monday\u2019s meeting displaying blue &#8216;Equity 4 Oakland&#8217; signs, were competing with a number of other causes, including public libraries, the Oakland animal shelter, and community organizations that serve sexually exploited minors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Note, that the department is not one of &#8220;equality&#8221;, but of &#8220;equity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is not about equal rights or equal access, but of &#8220;equity&#8221;, which is the dividing up of results so that those who do better must sacrifice to those who did worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6285\" title=\"Multi-racial power fists\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Multi-racial-fists.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Multi-racial-fists.jpg 408w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Multi-racial-fists-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This does not mean, in reality, that <em>anything<\/em> will be divvied up for each individual, or even for each racial, sexual, &amp;c. group.\u00a0 Without doubt, the elite will funnel funds for themselves, then blame the lack of funds for the people on whatever boogie-man-<em>de<\/em>&#8211;<em>jure<\/em> is fingered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In effect, it means that <em>your<\/em> equity is for <em>others<\/em> to declare moral approval on.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Inequality of Equity\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The City of Oakland, whose past Mayors include a communist and a man known as 'Moonbeam,' has established a department of 'Race and Equity'.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Multi-racial-fists.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The City of Oakland, whose past Mayors include a communist and a man known as &#8220;Moonbeam,&#8221; has established a department of &#8220;Race and Equity&#8220;: &#8220;Supporters of a controversial department of race and equity packed a special Oakland City Council meeting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/07\/15\/the-inequality-of-equity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[22,46,48],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-fail","tag-kyriarchy","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9513,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/9513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}