It’s one other week, which implies there’s new Donald Trump drama.
However this newest slight towards Black individuals and minorities isn’t really new. Trump and his administration slid underneath his anti-diversity, fairness and inclusion initiative that it’s not required to explicitly prohibit segregated amenities like eating places, ready rooms, and water fountains in new authorities contracts. This got here from a memo issued by the U.S. Basic Providers Administration in February.
Trump has successfully repealed an government order President Lyndon B. Johnson signed 60 years in the past.
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However the good factor is that this Trump motion doesn’t supersede federal legal guidelines that prohibit segregation and discrimination based mostly on race. Trump doesn’t have the ability to rescind these legal guidelines.
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Whereas principally symbolic, it speaks to Trump and his administration’s aim of minimizing Black individuals and different minorities’ contributions to this nation and holding us again. If Trump had his method, he would set us again to the segregated Jim Crow days the place White individuals had controlling energy.
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In our newest episode of the Defender Roundtable, the panel discusses Trump’s transfer to permit authorities contractors to follow segregation, or in the event that they do, it could possibly’t be a figuring out consider authorities doing enterprise with them.
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