There are folks and entities on the market who’re prepared to battle President Donald Trump, his regime of white nationalist propagandists, and his agenda to drive MAGA ideology on each state and federal establishment within the nation. Final week, we reported that quite a few states are refusing to adjust to the U.S. Division of Training’s grossly overreaching anti-DEI directive, and whereas that’s all effectively and good, resistance actually isn’t sufficient. Any individual or group with the facility to go on offense has to take action. And that’s the place the Authorized Protection Fund and the NAACP are available in.
In keeping with Axios, the LDF, which helped desegregate U.S. public colleges through the civil rights period, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the NAACP in opposition to the Trump administration over its relentless makes an attempt to finish DEI packages and restrict discussions of racism in public colleges.
It’s becoming that these organizations with lengthy, storied legacies of combating in opposition to systemic racism in America could be among the many teams which are going through off in opposition to Trump, contemplating his administration is presently mangling the spirit and motive for Civil Rights-era laws meant to finish the centuries-long follow of legalized anti-Black racism by reinterpreting stated laws to give attention to fictitious systemic anti-white racism.
From Axios:
The LDF stated in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Courtroom in Washington, D.C. that the strikes will “chill lawful actions recognized to profit Black college students” and remove obstacles that unfairly damage Black college students.
The lawsuit stated the Division of Training’s calls for contained factual inaccuracies and misinterpretations of civil rights legal guidelines and threatened to terminate crucial public training.
The lawsuit additionally alleged that the division was deliberately discriminating in opposition to Black college students by way of its efforts to defund federal grantees based mostly on misguided info and interpretations of regulation.
It names the U.S. Division of Training, U.S. Secretary of Training Linda McMahon and appearing assistant secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor.
The lawsuit seeks to cease the division from imposing its threats to drag federal funding from colleges that keep their DEI packages and preserve books on Black historical past.
Trump’s warpath on variety, fairness and inclusion is constructed on a mountain of lies. He’s mendacity about what DEI does and the way it works within the first place. Neither he nor any of his MAGA minions have introduced any proof that DEI has an opposed impact on the employability of white males, or their potential to attend any establishment of studying they qualify to attend. And he’s reinforcing white supremacy by denying its existence and perverting civil rights laws to again what’s already essentially the most highly effective and dominant racial group within the U.S.
“These threats search to undo many years of progress in the direction of equality for all in public training,” Katrina Feldkamp, assistant counsel on the Authorized Protection Fund, stated in a press release. “The present administration’s assaults are a menace to longstanding efforts to make sure truthful, inclusive curricula and instruction.”
Precisely.
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