Susan Rice Trumpets ‘Equity’ Policies Under Joe Biden to Fight Systemic Racism

Domestic policy adviser Susan Rice detailed Tuesday, President Joe Biden’s attempt to fight systemic racism by highlighting “equity” policies advanced by the administration.

“For too many American families, systemic racism and inequality in our economy, laws, and institutions still put the American dream far out of reach,” Rice said at the White House press briefing.

Rice said Biden would sign multiple executive orders demanding a top-down review of government to expose and correct racial disparities.

“We’ve hit the ground running to embed equity through the administration,” she said, noting Biden had signed executive orders to “redress systemic racism where it exists and to advance equity where we aren’t doing enough.”

“Advancing equity is everybody’s job,” she said, noting that each federal government agency needed to place equity at the “core of their public engagement.”

Susan Rice reminded reporters she is a descendant of Jamaican immigrants and enslaved Americans and a beneficiary of the “march toward greater equality” in the United States.

But she cited “long-standing inequities” in the country noting that the average black family have one-tenth of the wealth of the average white family and that the gap between black and white home ownership is the widest since 1960.

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