Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

Today we'll be joined by none other than my sister, an actress, producer, and director Megan Good.

But before we get to Megan, I wanted to talk about President Biden's racial

equity executive orders, what they are, what they mean, and what they aren't, and how we should

think about them. In case you missed it, earlier this week President

Biden signed four racial equity executive orders. One restores the

federal government's commitment to fighting housing discrimination. Another

one prohibits federal privately owned

prisons. Another one instructs all federal agencies to improve their coordination with

tribal leadership in developing policies that affect Native Americans. And the last one seeks to target racist attacks targeted at the Asian American community in the wake of COVID.

So what we have here is just the beginning of a series of executive orders on racial equity.

It's the first step.

A down payment, if you want to think of it that way.

The private prisons one is huge and is a long-standing demand from prison reform and

criminal justice advocates. Housing discrimination is real and the

Obama administration's affirmatively furthering fair housing rule was

designed to combat it.

Trump and Ben Carson of course pulled it back.

This executive order puts it back in play.

The others are a good first step, but obviously not substitutes for substantive policy, and I'm sure President Biden would agree with you if you

told them that.

But what do these executive orders mean?

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