Government anti-racism ‘cut and paste’ open policy agenda

Like many other organizations, foundations and intergovernmental organizations, he has the question “who can complain about this?” title: Government Alliance for Race and Equality, abbreviated as GARE.

And, like many other similar organizations, GARE has a very specific political agenda that is paid for by public funds.

However, unlike many other bands, GARE is not very good at hiding it.

From the GARE “Communication Tools” webpage, excerpt from “Let’s Talk About Race:”

“The purpose of this report is to show that we can and should speak openly about race to move people’s hearts and minds to support progressive fiscal policy,” that “progressive messages about health care reform and subprime lending to address race won over conservative messages that have avoided it, and it is “part of a collective movement to change people’s attitudes and behavior so that we can garner support for progressive politics.”

In other words, GARE—and presumably its constituent cities, counties, government agencies (members include, for example, the California prison and water system), water districts, and so on—supports a certain political movement and tries to convince people to follow its agenda with using taxpayer money. In other words, at the end of the day, your tax dollars are being used to directly get you to vote differently (unless, of course, joining GARE and creating a racial equality plan isn’t just a pointless smokescreen meant only to make people shut up) .

From the GARE Communications Guide for Member Government Agencies regarding elections:

“Our ultimate goal is to institutionalize sustainable practices in our government to achieve fairer outcomes and engage the public in support of their racial justice priorities. Our work. Here are a few guidelines for planning these shifts – they are all inevitable.

PROBLEMS DURING THE ELECTION

If your racial equality initiative has been a priority for the executive branch and has not been fully institutionalized, introducing pre-election legislation to formalize your jurisdiction’s commitments can be a helpful and strategic move. GARE can provide templates for such legislation that you can adapt to your local context.”

To be clear, personnel forcing their elected leaders to “do something” about race (or any other issue, for that matter) by forcibly pushing that issue into an election is unethical, appalling, and possibly actually illegal in California.

So what is GAR?

Like many other quasi-government groups, this one has a slightly confusing history. It was created in 2015 as a “collaborative project” between what is now Race Forward and what is now the Institute for Others and Belongings at UC Berkeley.

Since its inception, GARE has grown to include over 400 agencies across the country, about 80 of which are in California. From the city of Temecula to Sonoma County, membership is scattered throughout the state.

The meaning of GARE is to promote capital, in particular No equality as such “doesn’t really work” – in large part because past and current government institutions have done so much to promote and promote racism:

“GARE also recognizes the reality that government has played a central role in creating and maintaining racial inequality, and has done so explicitly for centuries and has done so implicitly for more than 50 years, through policies and practices that perpetuate inequality, even if they are of color.” blind or racially neutral.”

If an agency wishes to join, in addition to paying membership fees (the relatively small, $1,000 to $22,500 per year) and must sign the GARE agenda:

“This commitment can be demonstrated through the development and implementation of a Racial Equality Action Plan or Strategic Plan (e.g. — ), incorporating racial equality into other strategic or operational plans, using the Racial Equality Tools in day-to-day decision-making and/or legislation that describes the obligations of the jurisdiction.”

For their part, GARE parent groups are also at the forefront of progressive/awakening activism. Race Forward champions other issues such as gender, abortion, “semicide” and labor issues with the goal of transforming society. Here’s how this change will happen, according to the website (note the “power of growth”):

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The Institute of the Other and Belonging (OBI) is also an integral part of the progressive socio-political infrastructure – existing or under construction – used to change existing socio-political norms. From support for “targeted universalism” to housing, public transportation and climate change, the OBI website is the ultimate resource for the “bingo” player.

Focusing on the esoteric, the Institute recently sponsored a Zoom discussion on a “new theory of personality” in which speakers denounced the violence inherent in individualism, “citizen arrogance,” “the impossibility of the individual,” and how the planet and/or its “human-machine ecological relations, becomes conscious, and that people should not be seen as individuals, but as “ongoing processes”.

(Note: Here’s the presentation, and I apologize if my previous sentence was a little confusing; if you watch it for a while, you’ll forgive me: . Or you can just watch this scene from Flaming Saddles; it’s pretty much the same: )

Returning to GARE itself and its Member Jurisdiction Communications Guide, one finds what could only be called an aggressive “anti-racist” publicity stunt.

The guide – read it in PDF format below – invites local governments to use the Affirm, Oppose, Transform (ACT) communication strategy to change the political views of residents. Here is an example of ACT in action:

MYTH: Racism will end when individuals stop being racist.

FACT: Structural racism leads to inequality in our communities, despite the good intentions of individuals. We can have whole organizations of well-intentioned people who operate within an institution and system that perpetuates racial inequality. We must eliminate structural racism in order to achieve fair results.

SAMPLE RESPONSE ACTION:

Confirm: The personal is political, and identifying our own actions and inactions as individuals is critical to the work of racial equality.

Counter: While individual acts of racism are destructive, correcting them will never be enough—structural change leads to individual change much faster than the other way around.

Conversion: As individuals, we all need to step up and take responsibility for our role in the current problems of the race. But our efforts will bring the best results if we focus our intervention on institutional and structural change.

The guide encourages the creation of “shared stories” and community communities, dismisses the concept of “meritocracy”, notes that jurisdictions should involve the press, advises that if a city cannot “turn skeptics into allies”, it can at least “dissuade active opponents,” helpfully adding—very troublingly—that the agency “doesn’t need everyone” to agree to promote the policy and that “30 percent” of public support is more than enough to achieve the goal.

A key part of the guide is the idea of ​​”A-Ha!” the moment when a member of society finally realizes that “government has created and continues to perpetuate racial inequality. We must transform the government to promote racial justice.”

Once this plateau is reached, consent follows.

ACT itself is an age-old sales technique, and all guidance is interchangeable, from the “presentations/messages” that each company creates to sell their product, from toothpaste to semiconductors.

Except in this case, GARE sells something completely different and does it with public money.

And it’s not the same at all.

Attempts were made to reach out to several members in the state and GARE for comment – none of which were successful except for the city of Temecula, which stated that while it “has access to GARE’s network, education and resource sharing opportunities,” it does not has “did not introduce any specific GARE materials”. We’ll update this post if/when there are replies.

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