We actually didn’t want any extra proof that President Donald Trump and his white nationalist administration don’t know or care what DEI really is and the way it works, and so they’re actually simply transferring to hurt Black individuals and folks of coloration below the guise of preventing fictitious anti-white discrimination, however the U.S. Division of Justice simply ended a settlement settlement concerning wastewater points in a largely Black rural Alabama county, citing Trump’s anti-DEI directive, which, after all, has completely nothing to do with a courtroom settlement.
From The Related Press:
Justice Division officers mentioned they had been ending the settlement reached with the state concerning wastewater points in Lowndes County. Federal officers mentioned the choice follows President Donald Trump’s govt order forbidding federal businesses from pursuing range, fairness and inclusion initiatives.
“The DOJ will now not push ‘environmental justice’ as seen by a distorting, DEI lens,” Assistant Lawyer Common Harmeet Ok. Dhillon of the Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division mentioned in an announcement.
“President Trump made it clear: Individuals deserve a authorities dedicated to serving each particular person with dignity and respect, and to expending taxpayer sources in accordance with the nationwide curiosity, not arbitrary standards,” the assertion mentioned.
U.S. Lawyer Common Pam Bondi in February issued a memo rescinding a Biden-era directive to prioritize environmental justice circumstances.
Wastewater sanitation points are well-documented in Lowndes County. Poverty, insufficient infrastructure and a sort of soil that makes it troublesome for conventional septic tanks to work have generally left some residents with sewage of their yards.
So, let’s be clear about this: there’s a city in Alabama that’s experiencing well-documented sewage issues, creating a possible environmental catastrophe for the city’s residents, however as a result of most of these residents are Black, Trump’s administration categorized it as a DEI initiative regardless of the target proven fact that, once more, a court-approved settlement will not be a factor that may be led to by way of a range, fairness and inclusion program. Trump and his MAGA minions have determined it’s value it for Americans to endure moderately than enable a settlement to proceed as a result of that settlement was reached to appropriate environmental racism, which might point out that systemic racism in opposition to individuals apart from white individuals exists, and Trump simply can’t have that.
Extra from AP:
The Justice Division in 2023 mentioned its probe discovered Alabama engaged in a sample of inaction and neglect concerning the dangers of uncooked sewage for county residents. The Alabama Division of Public Well being agreed to take a number of steps as a part of the settlement, together with not fining individuals with insufficient house methods, making a complete plan for the area and different steps.
The settlement was the results of the Justice Division’s first environmental justice investigation below Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the precise laws the Trump administration has cited to justify the president’s bid to rid the federal authorities of all issues DEI and threaten state and personal establishments with defunding in the event that they don’t do the identical. These individuals had already taken laws that was unequivocally meant to appropriate centuries of legalized anti-Black discrimination and used it to struggle anti-white discrimination that doesn’t exist. Now, they’re actively harming and sacrificing Black individuals and Black well being simply to proceed bending America to their ideological will. (Oh, and since they’re unbelievably racist white supremacists.)
“It was about addressing a public well being disaster that has compelled generations of youngsters and households to endure the well being hazards of residing in proximity to uncooked sewage, because the DOJ itself documented,” U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), whose district contains Lowndes County, mentioned of the settlement, including that the Trump administration “has put its blatant disregard for the well being of my constituents on full show.”
Dr. Scott Harris, Alabama’s state well being officer, informed AP that the DOJ’s determination has put in jeopardy the federal funding obligatory for the county to put in much-needed new septic methods at properties in Lowndes, however he additionally mentioned his division will proceed to do its work within the area as greatest as it may.
“It doesn’t change our intent to assist as many individuals as potential,” Harris mentioned. “The actual query goes to be what the funding state of affairs seems to be like.”
MAGA America likes to roll its collective eye at us after we insist that the Trump administration is a white supremacist group, however the administration simply retains on proving us proper. Trump is out right here toying round with the thought of paying reparations to white Individuals allegedly affected by DEI, however he’s ending a settlement that completely has nothing to do with DEI simply because the settlement would largely assist Black individuals reside cleaner, more healthy lives.
Calling these individuals white supremacists isn’t hyperbolic or inflammatory — we’re simply citing observable reality. That’s it!
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