For greater than a century — 115 years to be actual — the one who holds the workplace of president of the US has been invited to the NAACP’s nationwide conference. That custom has been placed on pause for the primary time, as President Donald Trump has been disinvited to the proverbial cookout due largely to his second administration’s aversion to all issues associated to Black individuals and civil rights.
In keeping with the Related Press, NAACP President Derrick Johnson introduced throughout a press convention Monday that Trump received’t be in attendance on the conference, which can happen subsequent month in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“This has nothing to do with political celebration,” Johnson mentioned. “Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the present president has made clear that his mission is to eradicate civil rights.”
Johnson isn’t mistaken. In the previous couple of months alone, Trump has made housing discrimination simpler by signing an govt order to eradicate the federal authorities’s use of “disparate affect” knowledge that exhibits racist renters and mortgage lenders disproportionately hurt Black individuals; he signed an identical order discouraging faculty directors from utilizing “disparate affect” knowledge to handle racial disparities in disciplinary actions taken towards college students, labeling it a DEI follow; his Division of Schooling launched an investigation into Chicago Public Colleges over its “Black College students Success” program; his Justice Division ended a wastewater settlement for a largely Black Alabama city, falsely calling it “environmental justice as considered by means of a distorting, DEI lens,” just because environmental racism was addressed within the reaching of the settlement; he introduced the restoration of names given to navy bases to honor the Confederacy, and Trump’s DOJ has upended police reform initiatives by withdrawing consent decrees, and ending Biden-era police-accountability agreements with Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., that got here on account of in depth investigations following the police killings of Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
From Trump’s propaganda-laced warfare towards DEI to the Jan. 6 instigators’ hypocritical hate for Black Lives Matter, Trump has made it abundantly clear that he’s not desirous about combating systemic racism on behalf of anybody however white individuals, who don’t expertise systemic racism.
In truth, again in April, the NAACP sued the Division of Schooling to forestall it from withholding federal cash for colleges that didn’t finish their DEI packages, one in every of a number of lawsuits it filed towards the Trump administration.
Anyway, Trump needs to be feeling a bit of lonely at this level. Contemporary off his public breakup with Elon Musk, he witnessed the largest mass protest towards a single president unfold throughout all 50 states whereas his birthday navy parade, which he tried to promote as a celebration of the U.S. Military’s 250th anniversary parade, was sparsely attended in comparison with what was anticipated (and we all know how defensive he will get about his crowd sizes). Nineteen states have additionally sued him over his anti-DEI agenda, and he’s been sued by 12 state lawyer generals over his disastrous tariff technique.
On high of all that, Trump’s approval rankings proceed to plummet after he achieved the bottom 100-day mark approval score of any president in historical past.
Possibly the person is only a dangerous one who is dangerous at his job — and that’s why he has no pals exterior of his MAGA cult.
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