NNPA Meets with President’s Advisor, Cedric Richmond

President Joe Biden’s Senior Advisor, Cedric Richmond, who serves arsenic the manager of the White House Office of Public Engagement, attended a unrecorded streamed briefing for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) connected Wednesday to code a fig of issues of interest successful the Black community.

“It’s been a agelong fight,” Richmond said of the conflict for radical equality. “We’re not wherever we privation to be, but we are making progress.”

The manager noted that helium was successful the capitol connected January 6 and understands however adjacent the state came to experiencing a coup successful this country. He noted that the President is vocally advocating, and his medication is pushing the restoration of voting rights. An enactment to code the contented is present sitting successful the Senate.

“We recognize the value of voting,” Richmond said, explaining that the archetypal bid of concern is to trade an enactment which each 50 Democrats tin hold on. With 50 votes the Vice President would beryllium the necktie breaker. “There are immoderate challenges there.”

Richmond explained that the medication is warring connected this contented utilizing a three-pronged attack – successful the justness department, filing suits successful the courts; pushing the enactment successful the halls of congress; and organizing and educating voters connected the thoroughfare corners.

The advisor said that elector suppression happens successful respective ways—creating barriers to voting similar requiring identifications and besides persuading radical that voting doesn’t matter. Voters go discouraged

“The champion and astir contiguous happening we tin bash is reconstruct the voting rights act,” helium said.

Richmond besides addressed the administration’s committedness to summation acquisition backing — from pre-kindergarten to HBCUs — noting that the country’s nationalist schools person turned into a strategy of haves and person nots.

“This is thing that flies nether the radar acold excessively often,” helium said. “We privation to marque definite three- and four-year olds spell to schoolhouse for free… It’s Time to put successful our children and enactment our wealth wherever our rima is.”

Richmond besides addressed the issues of location ownership, generational wealthiness and the George Floyd Justice successful Policing Act, which, among different things, directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to make azygous accreditation standards for instrumentality enforcement agencies and requires instrumentality enforcement officers to implicit grooming connected radical profiling, implicit bias, and the work to intervene erstwhile different serviceman uses excessive force.

The House passed the measurement successful May, but it sits successful the Senate now, wherever it inactive needs votes.

“That process went connected and on,” Richmond said. “Senate Republicans wouldn’t adjacent spell arsenic acold arsenic President (Donald) Trump’s enforcement order. They were backtracking.”

“Where legislature won’t act, we will,” helium said, noting that the DOJ has banned choke holds. “We volition bash arsenic overmuch arsenic we perchance tin according to the constitution. The 1 happening this president is not acrophobic of doing is enactment with enforcement orders”

Richmond said the medication is not letting legislature disconnected the hook and volition proceed to propulsion for authorities equity.

“We are intentional astir investing successful the African-American community,” helium concluded. “Making definite African-Americans get to illustration their ain future.”