Name: LIVE: President Biden signs executive order to promote racial equity
Uploaded: 2021-01-28T01:25:51.000Z
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it's what the core values of this nation calls to do.

And I believe the vast majority of Americans, Democrats, Republicans and independents share these values and want us to act as well.

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We have never fully lived up to the founding principles of this nation state.

The obvious that all people are created equal have a right to be treated equally throughout their lives.

And it's time to act now, not only because it's the right thing to do, but because if we do, we'll all be better off for it.

For too long, we've allowed a narrow, cramped view of the promise of this nation to fester.

You know, we've We've bought the view that America is a zero sum game.

Maybe worst of all, if I hold you down, I lift myself up.

We've lost sight of what President Kennedy told us when he said a rising tide lifts all boats.

When we lift each other up, we're all lifted up, you know, in the coral areas, true as well, when any one of us is held down.

Mawr and Mawr Economic studies in recent years have proven this, but I don't think you need economic studies to see the truth.

Just imagine if, instead of consigning millions of American Children toe under resourced schools, we gave each and every 34 year old child a chance to learn to go to school, not take care from school and grow and thrive in school.

Throughout, When they've done that, places have been done.

It shows they have an exponentially greater chance of going all the way through 12 years of school and doing it well.

But, you know, does anyone does anyone in this whole nation think we're not all better off of that would happen?

Just imagine if, instead of denying millions of Americans the ability to own home and build generational wealth, we made it possible from them by a home their first home, and began to build equity to provide for their families and send their Children off to school.

Does anyone doubt that the whole nation we better off?

Just imagine Instead of denying millions of young entrepreneurs the ability to access capital, we made it possible to take their dream to market, create jobs, reinvest in their own communities.

Does anyone doubt this whole nation wouldn't be better off?

Just imagine of Mawr incredibly creative and innovative.

How much more credit and innovative we'd be if this nation held held historic black colleges and universities to the same opportunities and minority serving institutions that had the same funding re sources of public universities to compete for jobs and industries of the future.

You know, just ask the first HBCU graduate elected vice president.

But to do this, I believe this nation in this government need to change your whole approach to the issue of racial equality.

We need to open the promise America toe every American.

And that means we need toe make the issue of racial equity not just a knish you.

For any one department of government, it has to be the business of the whole of government.

That's why I issued and won the first days my whole government executive order that will, for the first time, advance equity for all throughout our federal policies and institutions.

it focuses on the full range of communities who have been long, underserved and overlooked people of color.

Americans with disabilities LGBTI, kick, Americans, religious, minority, rural, urban, suburban communities facing persistent poverty.

I've asked Ambassador Susan Rice toe lead the administration's charged through the White House of the and Domestic Policy Council because I know we shall see it through every White House.

Every White House component in every agency will be involved in this work because advancing equity has to be everyone's job today.

I'll be shortly signing a new additional package of executive actions to continue this vital work.

Housing, for example, housing is a right in American home.

Ownership is an essential tool toe wealth creation and to be passed down to generations.

Today, I'm directing the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs and Urban Development to redress historical racism and federal housing policies.

Today, I'm directing the federal agency to reinvigorate the consultation process with Indian tribes, respect the tribal sovereignty.

Respect for tribal sovereignty will be a cornerstone or engaging with Native American communities.

This builds on the work we did last week to expand tribes access to the strategic national stockpile for the first time to ensure they receive help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA to fight this pandemic.

Today I'm directing federal agencies to combat resurgence of xenophobia, particularly against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders that we've seen skyrocket during this pandemic.

This is unacceptable, and it's un American.

I've asked the Department of Justice to strengthen his partnership with the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to prevent those hate crimes.

I've also asked the Department of Health and Human Services to put out best practices for combating xenophobia and our national response to Cove it look in the weeks ahead, I'll be, uh, reaffirming the federal government's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and accessibility building on the work we started in the Obama Biden administration.

That's why I'm rescinding the previous administrations harmful ban on diversity and sensitivity training and abolished the offensive counterfactual 17 76 Commission.

Unity and healing must begin with understanding and truth, not ignorance and lies.

Today, I'm also issued an executive order that will ultimately end the Justice Department's use of private prisoners, private prisons, an industry that houses three child, the trainees and detainees and federal prisoners.

The executive order directs the attorney general to decline to renew contracts with privately operated criminal facilities, a step we started to take in the end of the Obama administration and was reversed under the previous administration.

This is the first step to stop corporation from profiting off of incarcerating incarceration that is less humane and less safe is, the studies show.

And it is just the beginning of my administration's plan to address systemic problems in our criminal justice system.

We need to restore and expand the Voting Rights Act, named after our dear friend John Lewis, and continue to fight back against laws that many states are engaged in to suppress the right to vote while expanding access to the ballot box for all eligible voters.

Because here's the deal and I'll close with this.

I ran for president because I believe we're in a battle for the soul of this nation, And the simple truth is our soul will be troubled.

As long as systemic racism is allowed to persist, we can't eliminate.

We can eliminate everything, but it's corrosive, is destructive, and it's costly.

It cost every American, not just who felt the sting of racial injustice.

We're just less of them were not just a nation of morally deprived because of systemic racism were also less prosperous, were less successful, less secure.

And I know it's gonna take time, but I know we can do it.

And I firmly believe the nation is ready to change.

Well, we need to make equity and justice part of what we do every day, today, tomorrow and every day.

I'm going to sign these executive actions to continue the work to make Riel the promise of America for every American again.

But I promise you we're going to continue to make progress toe eliminate systemic racism.

And every branch of the White House and the federal government is gonna be part of that effort.

But his first executive order the memorandum for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to redress our nations and the federal government's history of discriminatory practices and policies.

Next Executive Order Form eight Incarceration system by use of privately operated criminal detention for self third executive order.

Interfere its executive departments of agencies, tribal consultation and strength of the nation and nation relationship.

Last executive order condemning the combating racism, xenophobia, tolerance against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.