Biden Coronavirus Relief Prioritizes Funds for Non-White Business Owners
Restaurants and venues owned by white men will be last in line for federal relief under President Joe Biden’s “Restaurants Revitalization Fund” (RRF), prioritizing funds for women and minority groups first.
As part of Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is opening the application process by which owners of restaurant, bars, and other venues can apply for federal relief to help make up for the loss of revenue as a result of economic lockdowns spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
The plan allows business owners to apply for relief of up to $10 million per business and no more than $5 million per physical location. Business owners do not have to repay the funds so long as the money is spent by March 2023.
The relief, though, is being prioritized based on race, gender, and whether or not business owners are considered “socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.” White men, for example, who are not Veterans of the United States Armed Forces, are not eligible for “priority period” processing and funding.
Under the guidelines of the RRF, the SBA is giving priority processing and funding to “small business owned by women, veterans, or socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.”
To be eligible, the business must be “at least 51 percent owned by one or more individuals who are women, veterans, or socially and economically disadvantaged and if the management and daily business operations of the applicant are controlled by one or more women, veterans, or socially and economically disadvantaged individual.”
(Screenshot via SBA.gov)
(Screenshot via SBA.gov)
The Biden administration is defining businesses owned by “socially and economically disadvantaged” individuals as those who are:
- Part of an “economically disadvantaged Indian tribe”
- “Subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias”
- Black American
- Hispanic American
- Native American, including Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian
- Asian Pacific American
- Subcontinent Asian American
The RRF guidelines state that the SBA will “will look at whether the net worth of the individual claiming disadvantage is less than $750,000” and “will also look at whether the adjusted gross income of the individual averaged over the preceding three years exceeds $350,000” to determine if they are considered “economically disadvantaged.”
The Biden administration has used similar race-based priorities in other federal programs. This month a group of white farmers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, and South Dakota filed suit against the Biden administration, alleging that a federal loan forgiveness program excludes them because they are white.
Unlike the Biden administration, former President Trump’s administration delivered funds to small businesses based on the amount of revenue they lost. For example, those who lost revenue of 90 percent or more were given priority for processing and funding.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Biden vs. Biden on 'Is America a Racist Country?'
Source: Screenshot via CNBC Television
"Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country."
So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Biden's address to Congress.
Asked the next day what he thought of Scott's statement, Biden said he agrees. "No, I don't think the American people are racist."
Vice President Kamala Harris also agreed with Scott, "No, I don't think America is a racist country."
What makes these rejections of the charge of racism against America significant is that Biden and Harris both seemed to say the opposite after Derek Chauvin was convicted.
Biden had called George Floyd's death "a murder (that) ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism... that is a stain on our nation's soul."
Harris had said much the same: "America has a long history of systemic racism. Black Americans -- and Black men, in particular -- have been treated throughout the course of our history as less than human."
But which is the predominant view of Biden and Harris about the moral character of the country they were elected to lead?
Is it a vicious slander, as Scott implied, to call America a "racist country"? Or is America's soul, as Biden and Harris said, so stained by "systemic racism" that this country has treated Black Americans "as less than human" for the 400 years of her existence.
Has America been a curse for the 40 million Black people whose numbers have multiplied 10-fold since the abolition of slavery in 1865, and whose freedoms and material prosperity have grown accordingly?
Or has America been a blessing to Black people?
This is not just a gotcha question.
For the clashing commentaries of Biden and Harris reflect an ideological divide within their own coalition over a most basic issue: Is America a good country?
We have been on this terrain before.
Between LBJ's landslide in 1964 and the breaking of his presidency in 1968, the Democratic Party had split into three factions, all at war with one another.
There was the Lyndon Johnson-Hubert Humphrey establishment that controlled the presidency and the party machinery. There was the Robert Kennedy-Gene McCarthy-George McGovern anti-establishment and anti-war left.
And there was the populist-right George Wallace bloc, containing millions of flag-waving blue-collar Democrats in northern industrial states and Southern Dixiecrats who detested the leftist radicals on cultural and patriotic grounds.
That Democratic Party disintegrated in the convention hall and the streets of Chicago in August of 1968, opening the door to the GOP era of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Today's Democratic Party encompasses three similar blocs.
There is the Biden liberal establishment that controls the media, the academy, the Congress, the administration. There is the Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren-AOC progressive-socialist wing. And there is, today, a new militant and radical third force.
Included in its ranks are Black Lives Matter, Antifa and protesters who burn Old Glory, tear down statues, monuments and memorials, assault cops, smash and loot stores and riot at will.
This is the "Abolish Ice!" and "Defund the Police!" faction of the party that detests the old America and favors open borders to alter it forever. This anarchic element is rendered moral sanction by journalists and politicians who share its malignant view of American history.
The Biden-Harris statements on the conviction of Chauvin were tailored to pander to this crowd.
Yet, in his address to Congress, Biden also made a statement that sounded like a Biden plagiarism of Trumpian nationalism:
"All the investments in the American Jobs Plan will be guided by one principle: 'Buy American.' American tax dollars are going to be used to buy American products made in America that create American jobs."
Biden is scrambling to keep one foot in every camp in his coalition by appearing to agree, at times, with them all.
The problem: While one part of his party believes America is a good and great country deserving of loyalty and love, another believes America is racist in its soul -- a land whose character is defined, as it has ever been, by white supremacy, white privilege and white rule of people of color.
This leftist rage, however, is partly rooted in urban myth.
Consider. Last year, in D.C., our nation's capital, there were 200 homicides and 980 people shot, mostly Blacks.
How many were the victims of rogue cops or Proud Boys?
Can you lead a country about whose history you profess shame?
And how long will Americans follow leaders who appear to agree with those who hate what America was and, yes, what America is?
In 2020, Trump united the Democrats. But with Trump gone, Biden must do the uniting of his disparate party himself.
And his need to behave, at times, like a believer in the racial indictment of the America he grew up in is probably not something Joe Biden can credibly and indefinitely pull off.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Nixon's White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever."
Maxine Waters: 'We Have Seen this Nation Get More Racist’ Every Day
By Craig Bannister | May 3, 2021 | 3:20pm EDT
“Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) declared last week in the Republican rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress – but, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) says America’s becoming more systemically racist with each passing day.
“Every day we have seen this nation get more racist than anybody thought perhaps would be at this point in time,” Rep. Waters said, responding to Sen. Scott, in an interview with Inside California Politics.
Even Americans who didn't think the U.S. is racist now know that it is, Waters claimed:
“It’s kind of unexpected that he would be so, you know, adamant in the way that he said it: ‘This is not a racist country.’
“I think that even some people who did not think so in recent years are now understanding that it is, and that we have got to deal with it, we have got to do something about it.”
Rep. Waters solution: legislation “in all aspects of our government” to put an end to the country’s “systemic racism”:
“And public policy is extraordinarily important in all aspects of our government to begin to legislate in ways that will do away with the exclusion, the undermining that has really put racism into the system – systemic racism.”
Waters blamed former President Donald Trump for taking the nation “backward” and repeated the baseless claim that Trump had identified himself with radical groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan:
“He (Trump) was making racist comments. He was identifying himself with people like the Ku Klux Klan and the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and the QAnon.
“I mean, that is racism defined in the most obvious way. And so to say that this is not a racist country, maybe he (Scott) meant to say that there are many people who are not racist in this country. But yes, we have a problem with racism and that we must work to do something about it.”
https://news.yahoo.com/video-shows-stranger-attacking-asian-115308678.html
Video shows stranger attacking Asian woman with hammer in NYC
An Asian woman in New York City was attacked in the head with a hammer by a stranger who demanded the victim remove her mask, police said Monday.
The New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the assault. No arrests have been made as of Tuesday morning.
The attack occurred about 8:40 p.m. ET Sunday in the 410 block of West 42nd Street, which is in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan, police said.
Police released surveillance video that showed the moment a woman appeared to accost two Asian women walking on the sidewalk from behind. The woman demanded that they remove their masks before striking one of them in the head with a hammer, police said.
The victim was identified as a 31-year-old woman who was taken to the hospital for a laceration to the head, according to authorities. The other Asian woman, 29, did not appear to suffer any physical injuries.
The 31-year-old woman told NBC New York that she was "shocked," adding that she has lived in New York City for two years.
"I've never faced this kind of thing," she said. "This has never happened in my life."
After the attack, the woman with the hammer ran, police said. Authorities are still on the search for her.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo condemned the latest attack.
"I am disgusted by this violent attack in Midtown Manhattan, the latest seemingly senseless and despicable hate crime against Asian Americans in this state," Cuomo said in a statement on Tuesday. "We will do everything in our power to protect those who are vulnerable to these attacks and to hold cowardly perpetrators accountable to the full extent of the law."
Hours before the attack, hundreds of New Yorkers, including city officials, gathered at a rally in Flushing, Queens, denouncing the wave of hate crimes against Asian American communities.
“If you hate, get the hell out of here because you don’t deserve to live in New York City,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at Sunday's rally.
The "Stop Asian Hate" march was held a day after two other Asian Americans were targeted in separate attacks in Queens and Brooklyn, police said.
On Saturday afternoon, a group of five teens punched a 15-year-old Asian boy while spewing anti-Asian remarks at him in Rego Park, Queens, according to authorities. The boy was taken to the hospital for minor injuries.
Three of the suspects were taken into custody and charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment, police said. Investigators are still looking for two other suspects.
Shortly after the Queens attack, a stranger pushed a 52-year-old Asian woman towards the subway track at the Myrtle Avenue-Broadway Station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, police said. No injuries or arrests were reported.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating both incidents.
The hammer attack occurred just a block from where a man repeatedly kicked a 65-year-old Asian woman outside a luxury apartment building as witnesses appeared to watch in late March.
Authorities arrested the suspect who was already on lifetime parole for fatally stabbing his mother in 2002. The two apartment building doormen who were caught on video appearing to watch the attack unfold were fired, the building's owner said.
Last week, a new analysis of hate crime data revealed that the increase in anti-Asian attacks has remained consistent.
The analysis, released by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, found that hate crimes surged 169 percent from the first quarter of 2021 to the same time period in 2020 across 15 major cities.
New York City accounted for the largest surge from 13 hate crimes in the first quarter of 2020 to 42 in the same period this year — a 223 percent jump, according to the research.
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