MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
(CNN)As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office in January, nearly half of the transition team laying the groundwork for his administration is made up of people of color, and women are in the majority.
Forty-six percent of the transition staff are people of color, according to new diversity data of the transition team provided to CNN, and 41% of the senior staff are people of color. The majority of transition staff -- 52% -- are women, and 53% of the senior staff are women.
The new diversity figures come as Biden is set to announce his Cabinet picks and senior staff for the White House in the coming weeks -- one of the first tests of his campaign pledge to build an administration that will "look like America."
Biden's first major step toward diversity in his administration came when he selected Kamala Harris, a Black and South Asian woman, as his vice president. In his first staffing announcement, Biden chose a White man and longtime adviser -- Ron Klain -- as his chief of staff for the White House.
The transition team's diversity also extends to its advisory board -- where 43% are people of color and 52% are women. Nine of the 13 members of Biden's Covid-19 advisory board are people of color and five of the members are women, according to the data.
Last week, the transition team announced its agency review teams despite the General Services Administration not yet recognizing Biden as the winner of the election. The teams consist of roughly 500 people, more than half of whom are women. About 40% of the team "represent communities historically underrepresented in the federal government," a transition official said, which includes people of color, individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.
Comments
Not that I expect the goal of a representational government to match white demographics per se, but one might be carful about bragging that the majority was being slighted in some way. (Women of course are a small majority, I believe, and have been traditionally underrepresented.)
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 11/17/2020 - 11:40am
I will take competent POC over the incompetent whites in the current administration
If whites are put off by POC in the Biden administration, are you saying that they are racists?
Edit to add:
I would have no problem with Ben Carson being replaced with a competent white, Asian, or Latino,candidate
by rmrd0000 on Tue, 11/17/2020 - 12:03pm
I've been told time and time again that the mere existence of a racial disparity is proof of racism. Shouldn't we get to the bottom of why this anti white racism exists in the Biden transition team?
by ocean-kat on Tue, 11/17/2020 - 12:16pm
Well someone's got to keep the "systemically-racist country" meme alive. I can't see any alternative except possibly to argue that the federal government has nothing to do with the system that runs the country?
by artappraiser on Tue, 11/17/2020 - 2:43pm