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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

How Will the Biden Administration Deliver on Racial Justice?

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

President, Barack, News, Politics, Wnyc, Obama, Lizza, Washington, Wickenden

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🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Joe Biden has spoken clearly about the reality of systemic racism in America, and he’s said that racial justice would be a defining element of his Presidency. Such a statement would have been unlikely before the movement that followed the death of George Floyd, or before the overt white supremacy that was on display during the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, which Biden has said convinced him to run in 2020. 

Vanita Gupta will be one of the key people guiding the Administration’s response. She was confirmed in April as Associate Attorney General, the No. 3 position at the Department of Justice, overseeing the Civil Rights Division. David Remnick spoke with Gupta about how Biden intends to make good on his promises, and whether criminal-justice reform is still possible in bitterly divided Washington.

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I'm Dorothy Wickendon on today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks with

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Vanita Gupta, the newly appointed United States Associate Attorney General.

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They'll discuss the Biden administration's agenda on civil rights in policing. And this takes acknowledging and confronting,

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head-on systemic racism, and the racial disparities

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that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broad.

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You know, state and local government and law enforcement needs to step up, but so does the

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federal government.

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A president who is bluntly speaking about the reality of systemic racism, that would have been very hard to imagine before George Floyd's murder and the movement that's followed.

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Biden has said racial justice would be a defining element of his presidency.

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He was motivated to run in 2020 by the white supremacy openly flaunted at the 2017 Charlottesville rally, he said.

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