Equality Vs. Equity

The word “equality” was a word used by hundreds of American leaders to shape public policy in the past, but recently, you don’t hear that word used hardly at all. Recently, the word “equity” has been more predominantly used. So what is the difference between the two words, and mainly, what is the word “equity?”

A legal case involving one man perfectly depicts the true difference between equality and equity. In California, officials have released a convicted child murderer from prison, a criminal illegal alien called Carlos Morales Ramirez. In 2013, federal immigration officials placed a detainer on Ramirez, but California’s officials made sure he was released from prison before the feds could arrest him. Why did they do that? Because he was in this country illegally. About a week after his release, the feds tracked him down in Los Angeles, where he was bound to get away with more crime, and put him back in custody.

Carlos Morales Ramirez isn’t alone. In the City of Los Angeles alone, approximately 100 criminal illegal aliens are freed from prison every day. About 80% of them, expectedly, go on to commit more crimes. Criminals who are United States citizens, who have the right to be in this country, will never get the same consideration. This is because corrupt leaders like the new Los Angeles District Attorney, George Gascon, who promotes the idea that poverty causes crime, are put in positions of power to radically reshape the way we look at society. The idea that a minority person should get special consideration, where a white person would not. That is not justice. That is not equality; that is equity. Equity is the opposite of equality.