The Trump administration is determined to “restore” this country at a completely fictional moment in which the whites were successfully based on merit, people of color were advanced only due to an affirmative action and the women understood that they were the lower sex.
Trump's hostility towards social progress and civil rights is filtered in every corner of life: armed forces, university and university campuses, public schools and corporations.
Shortly after assuming the position, Trump fired CQ Brown Jr., a four -star Air Force general and former combat pilot and the second black president of the Joint General Staff. He also dismissed the highest -ranking woman in American military history, Admiral Linda Fagan, commander of the United States Coast Guard. Its Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, the Apalia Lisa Franchetti, who was head of naval operations and the first woman in the joint personnel.
They all had star military races. But they ran into Trump when embraced the fundamentally American ideal that our diversity is our strength. E Pluribus unum, someone?
“Any general who was involved, general, admiral or whatever, who was involved in any of that, Dei Woke S, has to leave,” Hegseth told the right -wing podcaster Shawn Ryan in November. Hegseth has flatly declared that women do not belong to combat, and in their 2024 book, “the warriors warrior,” Brown's rise to superior military work.
“Was it because of the color of your skin?” The future secretary asked. “Or his ability? We will never know, but always doubts, what seems unfair to CQ “. (Who is this” racist “we are talking about?)
That is a great statement of a Fox News personality that was designated for one of the most important works in the country based on thin tissue grades such as its telegenic qualities and the magician policy. His deficiencies, including a propensity to drink in oblivion, according to numerous witnesses, and a payment of $ 50,000 to a woman who accused him of sexual assault, are forgiveable in Trump's world. He will see, he is a white man who looks good on television.
As for university campuses, hysteria around efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, or Dei, is the current iteration of panic that previously wrapped the critical theory of the race, the precept of almost half a century that racism has shaped public policies and other facets of US life. And those controversies, of course, followed decades of paranoia around affirmative action, the practice of increasing employment, education and other opportunities for people who belong to disadvantaged groups such as racial minorities.
The ultra -conservative majority of the Supreme Court put the final nail in the cof and Private: You may not consider race as one of the many factors to decide which qualified applicants admit. It doesn't matter centuries of white legacy admissions and Kushner -style admission to Harvard. Giving an advantage to applicants is apparently unfair only if it covers people of color.
Petulating and blatantly racist policies of Trump are symptoms of the American reaction against the social advances of the late twentieth century. As White Americans become a minority, as women continue to advance towards gender equality and have the audacity to resist harassment and sexual assault, the structure of white male power has demonstrated, again and again, that it will resist with everything it has. Do you think you control your own body, ladies? Think again!
Many of us naively thought that the 2008 election of the first black president pointed out a change of sea in the attitudes of White Americans about the race, but that was an opinion too happy.
It was only in 2020 that George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, unleashing a tide of protests against police brutality and corrosive racism. That led to more corporations and other institutions to adopt policies designed to advance the careers of qualified people who could otherwise have been overlooked.
And yet, it took less than five years, and the second choice of our racist in chief, so that the forces of white supremacy design a correction of the course and invest the efforts of goodwill taken of the most dramatic public lynchings in the modern history of the United States.
Don't you believe me? The conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro has asked to be forgiven. (“Something to think about,” published the execrable Elon Musk).
In the same racist line, a Republican congressman from Georgia presented a bill to retain federal funds of the Washington administration, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser unless he agrees to eliminate the famous mural of “Black Lives Matter” on a street near the White House. Last week, Bowser said he would eliminate him because “we can't afford to distract me by the meaningless interference of Congress.” The devastating impacts of federal employment cuts must be our number 1 concern.
Making the United States great again for whites is such an integral part of the Trump agenda in which only a few hours after having sworn, signed an executive order that prohibits the programs ofi in the federal government. His order also orders federal agencies to develop plans to frustrate the initiatives ofi in the private sector and universities.
“It is a marked attempt to cool Dei's initiatives … place them in the federal government's sights so that even if you are legally carried out, private employers can be forced to respond to federal probes,” said Associated Press.
Pepsi, Google, Goldman Sachs, Target, Facebook, Amazon, McDonald's and Walmart executives, among others, could not fulfill quick enough. Everyone has pointed out that they will go back or end their Dei programs.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has increased and infamous the “most masculine energy” in his company.
However, consumers are not helpless. On Wednesday, in honor of Lent, a black pastor from Georgia, the Reverend Jamal Bryant of the Missionary Baptist Church of the New Birth, asked for a “40 -day” goal. “The period of time can be symbolic, but the call to action is not; a boycott of the retailer, says Bryant's website, is” a spiritual act of resistance. “
The previous week, a group called People's Union USA asked Americans to boycott Amazon and their companies, including Zappos, Ring, Whole Foods and Prime Video, for one day. On Friday, he expanded the call for an “economic blackout” one week.
Thank God by Costco, whose shareholders rejected a proposal to end the company's Dei policies in January. That led Republican general prosecutors of 19 states to threaten Costco with reprisals for their “illegal discrimination.”
Let them try. It is very possible that Americans love even more treatment than racism hate.
Bluesky: @further.bsky.social. Rags: @rabcar
