Trump has launched the most dangerous attack on Black people since the 1960s
“Black Vote, Black Power,” a collaboration between Keith Boykin and Word In Black,
examines the issues and what’s at stake for Black America
Not since the 1960s have Black Americans been the target of a greater political assault than the one we’re witnessing right now.
Donald Trump just installed a white supremacist at the State Department who openly acknowledged his belief that “white men must be in charge” of everything.
He put in another at the Treasury Department, who called to repeal the Civil Rights Act, “normalize Indian hate,” and eliminate Gaza, while bragging, “I was racist before it was cool.”
He put an unqualified Fox News host in charge of the entire Defense Department, even after the man was flagged by a service member as an “insider threat” and a possible white supremacist.
He’s installing a man to run the Department of Health and Human Services who believes that Black people should not be given the same vaccines as white people.
And he gave unprecedented government access to an unelected white South African billionaire who performs Nazi salutes, tells far-right Germans to let go of their Hitler guilt, and is coercing Black leaders in South Africa because he thinks white people are being persecuted.
Racism is not a bug in Trump’s vision of America, it is a feature, and the racists are not trying to hide it. Just since Inauguration Day, we’ve seen white supremacists on the subway in Washington, DC., Patriot Front members at the Jefferson Memorial, and “Proud Boys” marching through the streets of the capital. And now a right-wing group has published the names and photos of mostly Black federal workers in an alarming new “DEI watchlist” that effectively puts a target on their backs.
Keywords: Assassinate Black America, Systemic Challenges, Black Empowerment, Historical Resilience, Social Justice
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