Today, racism remains a poisonous
force in America. Fascism and authoritarianism are on the rise and President
Donald Trump is giving voice to such hate, making it state policy and central
to his presidential agenda. Recently, he tried to ban birthright citizenship by executive order
to limit the number of babies of color born in the United States, though such
an act is clearly unconstitutional.
Currently, at least two federal
judges have blocked Trump’s executive orders to redefine birthright
citizenship. He has also issued executive
orders seeking to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion. He clearly does
not want Black, Brown, and Asian people to be on an equal footing with Whites.
All his most recent efforts are
consistent with his longstanding attempts to limit voting rights for
people of color. Trump has voiced the most vicious comments over the years:
he says that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our
country”; he slammed Haitian migrants for trying to enter the
United States by claiming hundreds of thousands of them flowing into the
country “probably have AIDS”; Haiti, El Salvador, and African lands are “shithole
countries”; migrants are “animals“; and, as he also put it, there has to be “some form of punishment” for women who have abortions.
Finally, Trump has repeatedly stated his admiration for dictators and strong abusive
rulers.
Trump’s Protection of
Afrikaners
Trump, his enablers in the
Republican Party, and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) supporters should
really be called Make America White Again (MAWA). He and those groups have
generated a blueprint for increasing authoritarianism, racism, and xenophobia.
It’s crystal clear that this enmity toward Black and Brown people is driven in
part by demographic changes in the United States that threaten to place Whites
in the minority.
On the subject of race, Trump is
sensitive only when it comes to discrimination against White people. Recently,
he signed an executive order that would protect White
South Africans from discrimination and allow them to resettle in the United
States…
Douglas H. White, CounterPunch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/26/bending-the-arc-of-the-moral-universe-toward-justice/
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