According to an investigation by Fox News Digital, San Antonio, Texas, a city with nearly 1.
5 million residents, has been injecting Critical Race Theory policies into its departments in order to ensure equal outcomes among races as part of an increased effort to dismantle systemic oppression..
Under the watchful eyes of the Office of Equity, San Antonio has become a critical race city, which means the office supports aligning with the ideology of the far left. Critical Race Theory, aka CRT, supports the theory that America is systemically racist and privilege is based solely on skin color.
In 2019, city manager Erik Walsh began implementing agendas that affected departments across the city. Walsh said, Over the past year, I have been excited to see the Office of Equity... shift culture within the city, and advance... equitable programs, practices, and procedures. We have an ambitious equity initiative that involves... tough... policy revision.
Former chief of equity, Zan Gibbs, added, We have inherited systems, structures, and outcomes that are the result of.. the legacy of Jim Crow, national and local redlining policies, and urban renewal plans that benefited some and burdened others.
One of the practices in effect to deal with privilege was the disbursement by the city of federal COVID-19 relief payments based on race using an equity matrix.
According to Gibbs, at a panel event in 2020 reviewed by Fox News Digital, the practice was in effect. Gibbs discussed the disbursements by the city, which were funded by the stimulus bill.
Fox News explains in the report, The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed into law by former President Trump in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gibbs added that the city wanted to make sure the funds received from the government would not be used just for relief purposes only. She said, So we were able to help the... housing relief funds, as well as the economic and small business relief funds, be sort of looked at through an equity lens. We applied scoring matrix to the distribution process with those relief funds.
Former chief equity officer Gibbs resigned from her position due to allegations she was responsible for creating a hostile work environment. The equity matrix remains active using internal lists to determine disbursements to ensure citywide equity.
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