It's kind of ironic that this came up as I was traveling in the Southern US to visit family over the weekend.
It's clear that the only racism the Trump administration is going to fight is the made-up racism where they insist the most persecuted people in the US are the majority ruling one, white, male, straight Christians. And with Congress being made up of over 70% white people and over 70% male, Trump has had enough of "his people" being "marginalized."
This entire argument boils down to this racist ideology: If any person who is NOT a white, male, straight Christian gets hired, a scholarship or any perceived advantage (whether real or not), they must have cheated to get it because everyone else is 'substandard' to a white, male, straight Christian. That is REALLY BIGOT-Y!
Now, the Trump Administration is pushing for an official policy of segregation, undoing the last 60-plus years of laws meant to fight the undeniable racism that had permeated our society. I guess these guys are tired of taking off their white hoods and extinguishing their burning crosses whenever the public eye is upon them.
The Johnson Administration had sued the Plaquemines Parish School Board in Louisiana to stop their intentional whites-only school policy, and the case had a Federal consent decree established on the School Board to stop their racism. Not anymore! Trump ordered his DOJ to stop the case, allowing for legal segregation to return to the United States. Now the racists of Louisiana can have their little Adolfs and Evas go to school without seeing anyone darker than Casper.
The DOJ has also signaled that it will likely end all other desegregation cases against other southern bigoted school districts. By the way, there are currently 130 school districts that are under federal government desegregation orders, with the schools located in the states you could list easily; Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana (what else did those 6 states do together...).
MAGA claims these rules to address belligerent racism are "Federal Government Overreach." These are the same MAGA people currently pushing for the Federal Government to stop transgender people from existing, women from being able to vote, women from being able to choose their own healthcare, minorities from being able to stay in the US, and the LGBTQ community from having rights, because in those cases the Federal Government regulating the masses "just feels right" and "JESUS!!!"
This also comes on the heels of the Administration telling government contractors they can legally have segregated restaurants, waiting rooms, and drinking fountains. Also, the Trump Administration seems to have stopped the consent decree for Minneapolis to clean up their police department in the wake of the UNDENIABLE racist killing of George Floyd and others.
The majority of Trump's voters INDEED voted for this. They voted for racism to be the north star of this Administration, and even if the Trump Administration destroys their MAGA lives with his other disastrous policies, they will always love him for his unabashed bigotry.
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