How Biden Is Erasing Trump’s White Supremacist Legacy
Biden issued an executive order. On top of the executive order, the White House’s push to raise the minimum wage would have outsize effects on African Americans, helping to narrow the black-white income gap.
The executive order on racial justice erased two of the Trump administration’s most blatantly racist policies. Biden reversed Trump’s move to ban all federal agencies and contractors from conducting any kind of diversity training or programs that dealt with concepts like systemic racism or white privilege.
The order also got rid of Trump’s “1776 Commission,” an attempt to
whitewash American history by playing down, even excusing slavery.
Increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour would give 38% of Black workers a raise compared with 23% of white workers, according to research cited by economists writing for
Equitable Growth.