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Bad news: Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s just-released Racial Equity Plan is promising to address \u201cdisparities\u201d in racial outcomes based on a dangerously flawed understanding their causes \u2014 and seemingly with a distinctly anti-American solution: racial favoritism.<\/p>\n

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Good news: There\u2019s little sign, based on the plan and on his record, he\u2019ll actually deliver on his promises.<\/p>\n

Start with the fact that America was founded on the principle of equal opportunity, <\/em>not outcomes. Only minds twisted by the fantasy of a socialist utopia would expect outcomes to be the same for everyone, despite pivotal differences between them \u2014 most notably, the effort they put in.<\/p>\n

And would then resort to blatantly unfair, unlawful and wholly ineffective means in supposed pursuit of that equality.<\/p>\n

Remember, the nation\u2019s successful civil rights movement was premised on securing equal rights<\/em>, not outcomes, for blacks and other racial minorities, and later, women.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Equal opportunity<\/em> was, is and always should be the ideal.<\/p>\n

The Mamdani plan\u2019s main mistake is that it assumes racial disparities are chiefly the result of \u201chistorical harm\u201d \u2014 never mind that slavery ended 160 years and the civil-rights reforms rolled back most official racist policies more than 60 years ago.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the plan sees \u201csystemic racism\u201d sewn into the fabric of the city\u2019s history, governance and policies.<\/p>\n

And then hints of addressing disparities by giving minorities an edge, in one form or another.<\/p>\n

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Fortunately, except in a few places, the report offers little meat on the bones for achieving that. It largely calls for studies, recommendations, data, etc. \u2014 as opposed to actual, immediate, concrete changes. <\/em><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, where there is<\/em> meat, it\u2019s rancid. When it comes to \u201cracial equity\u201d goals set by the city\u2019s Administration for Children\u2019s Services, for example, Naomi Schaefer Riley fumes that \u201creducing racial inequity trumps reducing abuse and neglect\u201d of kids \u201cevery time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ACS\u2019s emphasis on race-based approaches \u201cwill only put more children, of all races<\/em>, in grave danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0plan also aims to expand race-based contracting, which is unconstitutional and undermines fair, unbiased competitive bidding. The government shouldn\u2019t combat \u201cracial disparities\u201d by discriminating in favor supposedly \u201charmed\u201d racial groups.<\/p>\n

Thank goodness Mamdani is generally more interested in symbols than results, as is clear from his promises for government-run grocery stores, free buses, universal child care and more.<\/p>\n

Equity hustlers like him, who traffic in the fiction of equal outcomes, are mainly looking to profit politically from the resentments<\/em> their false claims and hollow promises stoke.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s hope that\u2019s the worst<\/em> of the damage his plan causes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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