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For (at the very least) the second time, President Donald Trump‘s govt order aimed toward lynching all issues variety, fairness and inclusion has successfully eliminated a clause in current U.S. constitutional legislation that explicitly made racial discrimination unlawful — which, after all, is the precise reverse of what he claims his anti-DEI warpath is meant to attain. (Not that anybody who doesn’t assume the Confederacy will get a nasty rap ever believed that load of gaslighting white nationalist nonsense.)
Final month, the Normal Providers Administration issued a public memo final that affected all civil federal companies. Based on NPR, “The memo explains that it’s making adjustments prompted by President Trump’s govt order on variety, fairness and inclusion, which repealed an govt order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 concerning federal contractors and nondiscrimination.” Effectively, it seems Trump’s order to remove imaginary Jim Crow for white folks additionally eliminates the segregation clause, which explicitly prohibited contractors from having segregated eating places, ready rooms and ingesting fountains.
From NPR:
The clause in query is within the Federal Acquisition Regulation, often called the FAR — an enormous doc utilized by companies to jot down contracts for anybody offering items or providers to the federal authorities.
Clause 52.222-21 of the FAR is titled “Prohibition of Segregated Amenities” and reads: “The Contractor agrees that it doesn’t and won’t keep or present for its workers any segregated services at any of its institutions, and that it doesn’t and won’t allow its workers to carry out their providers at any location beneath its management the place segregated services are maintained.”
Final week, we reported that the Division of Justice had launched investigations towards 45 schools accused of “race-based” DEI practices, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which “obliges faculties that obtain federal funds to supply college students with an surroundings freed from discrimination based mostly on race, coloration, or nationwide origin.” It’s virtually as if Trump is all about ridding America of the racial discrimination he falsely believes (or pretends to consider) is occurring to white folks whereas constantly eroding civil protections for Black folks and different marginalized teams that really want them.
Now, to be clear, there are nonetheless federal and state legal guidelines that prohibit segregation, so corporations nonetheless can’t simply freely re-implement Jim Crow-era racial discrimination, however authorized consultants nonetheless consider this variation is important and harmful.
“It’s symbolic, nevertheless it’s extremely significant in its symbolism,” says Melissa Murray, a constitutional legislation professor at New York College. “These provisions that required federal contractors to stick to and adjust to federal civil rights legal guidelines and to take care of built-in slightly than segregated workplaces have been all a part of the federal authorities’s efforts to facilitate the settlement that led to integration within the Fifties and Sixties.
“The truth that they’re now excluding these provisions from the necessities for federal contractors, I believe, speaks volumes,” Murray added.
In spite of everything, have any of you observed that Trump’s anti-DEI measures have solely had an impact on non-white folks, significantly Black folks?
Apart from the investigations of faculties that will have practiced race and gender-based DEI, Trump’s orders have led to the cancelation of landmark eligibility for traditionally Black communities, the elimination of Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C., EOs that successfully undermine police reform laws, and the suspension of a serious HBCU scholarship program, which is wild coming from the president who, throughout his first time period, boasted that HBCUs “by no means had higher champions within the White Home.”
Even Trump’s anti-immigration agenda appears to exclude European immigrants, and definitely white Afrikaners in South Africa. (As a result of he additionally believes they’re being racially discriminated towards whereas ignoring the truth that they’re beneficiaries of apartheid — which is wild coming from the president who has repeatedly in contrast himself to Nelson Mandela.)
After all, that is additionally coming from the president who spearheaded the propaganda-reliant assault on important race concept, particularly targetted voting districts with massive Black and Latino voters along with his 2020 election fraud lies, and is a promoter of the white nationalist Nice Substitute Idea, which, at its core, insists that white folks have an inherent proper to be the dominant race in America.
However, certain — nothing racially discriminatory about all of that, proper?
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