Look, we didn’t want any extra proof that President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI agenda is de facto simply white supremacy reinforcement disguised as a struggle towards anti-white discrimination, however the commander-in-segregation-policies has simply declared that high-speed web is “racist,” presumably towards white folks.
Truly, in accordance with the New York Occasions, it’s a legislation signed by President Joe Biden that aimed toward increasing high-speed web entry for underserved demographics, together with veterans, aged folks, disabled folks, poor folks and people from rural communities. Properly, when Trump learn the language within the legislation, assuming he reads and is ready to comprehend what he reads, he will need to have ignored all of these teams of people that may very well be of any race and targeted in on the half the place the legislation additionally seeks to to enhance web entry for ethnic and racial minorities, as a result of that was seemingly all it took for him to denounce the laws, which he threatened to finish “instantly,” as a legislation aimed toward offering “woke handouts based mostly on race.” He additionally known as the legislation “completely unconstitutional,” which is wealthy for a president who just lately answered “I don’t know” to a reporter who requested him if he’s obligated to uphold the Structure, which can be a query requested by many state officers who’re difficult the constitutionality of his insurance policies in courtroom.
From the Occasions:
In actuality, the legislation barely mentions race in any respect, solely stating that racial minorities may very well be lined by this system whereas together with a nondiscrimination clause that claims that people couldn’t be excluded from this system “on the idea of precise or perceived race, colour, faith, nationwide origin, intercourse, gender identification, sexual orientation, age, or incapacity” — language taken from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Digital Fairness Act, drafted by Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, gives $60 million in grants to states and territories to assist them provide you with plans to make web entry extra equal, in addition to $2.5 billion in grants to assist put these plans into impact. A few of that funding has already been disbursed to states with permitted plans — together with crimson, rural states like Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa and Kansas. Lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in extra funding had been permitted by the Biden administration within the weeks earlier than Mr. Trump took workplace, however have not but been distributed.
Right here’s the factor: Whether or not Trump’s misunderstanding and mischaracterization of the legislation is intentional or simply one other instance of the president not understanding how actually something works (it’s in all probability each), we’re speaking about higher entry to high-speed web right here. We’re not speaking about reparations, faculty admissions, particular hiring practices, or anything that sometimes will get your common white and comically fragile conservative screaming about reverse Jim Crow, or no matter. We’re speaking concerning the web — a device that has change into essential for employment, schooling and a myriad of fundamental wants — and a legislation that improves entry for communities that want improved entry. It’s a no brainer, and the one cause our no-brain president needs to finish it “instantly” is that it would inadvertently enhance situations for Black folks and folks of colour.
It’s the identical power the Trump administration had when it just lately ended a wastewater settlement for a principally Black Alabama city, falsely (and absurdly) calling it “environmental justice as seen via a distorting, DEI lens,” just because environmental racism was addressed within the reaching of the settlement. So, a principally Black city the place residents had been complaining about well-documented wastewater sanitation points for years, however they need to proceed having their well being put in danger as a result of the White Home is filled with white nationalists who solely want to see systemic racism addressed when it’s fictional systemic racism suffered by white folks. It was a courtroom choice that, very like Biden’s grant program, had nothing to do with DEI, nevertheless it was labeled DEI by default as a result of Black folks had been being helped.
Possibly Trump and his ilk are simply racist. Possibly it’s actually that straightforward.
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