Trump and the GOP thugs may have won this skirmish but they won't win their war on Black women. They want to erase us and our history because we have achieved so much with so little. Black Americans have always valued education, worked hard and contributed to the success of this country. The official end of Jim Crow occurred only 61 years ago with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "Resistance" is a new concept for most White Americans but Black Americans have been resisting the lies and cruelty of institutional racism since 1619. We believe in the rule of law because no one, not even White people, are safe without it. That is why we are in the forefront of saving our democratic republic.
Yes, I know about the Sapphire stereotype. Re: the news link. Canada is not immune to bigotry but at least their government has not instituted a new Jim Crow era as Trump and the GOP have done in the US.
Well-written and timely, unfortunately. Textbook *true reverse discrimination.
The few Black women I know (Canada) are ALL exceptionally strong, smart & classy — but they shouldn’t have to be ‘exceptional’ in order to make it … anywhere … esp while some white folks cling to their willful ignorance & entitlement.
Trump has been well-managed this far, with respect to hiding/ rebranding his racism … with a lot of help from his modern day racist cronies in high places. More evidence of that in Texas voting rights today, specifically.
And with help from Musk (+ son Barron) they reached enough young men & maintained the dyed in the wool racists to restore their racist status quo. Kamila then had 2 strikes against her … Black & a woman.
Good to see the AOs & Jasmine Crocketts standing strong!
Thank you. Devastating statistics. With enormous harm to individuals and their families.
Clearly much I don't know about how civil service employees are paid. I thought civil service pay was set by regulations that were gender and race neutral. Same job, same pay.
Thank you for the statistics presented in this article. To round out my understanding, I decided to research the percentage of African Americans living in the U.S. and found that the U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts site was undergoing a maintenance cycle. I wonder how long that will continue and how the numbers will be manipulated to suit the current regime. As a seventy-three-year-old-White American, I am appalled at the targeting of Black Americans and the decimation of our government agencies and fear that it will take years and maybe decades to restore all that we have lost. And for what? So that we can have minority rule? That is not what our country was founded upon!
Is there any organized effort to file class action lawsuits? I would guess most of these federal employees weren't hired in the past 5 years and so could not be said to be "DEI hires" (the figleaf for discriminatory layoffs).
Trump and the GOP thugs may have won this skirmish but they won't win their war on Black women. They want to erase us and our history because we have achieved so much with so little. Black Americans have always valued education, worked hard and contributed to the success of this country. The official end of Jim Crow occurred only 61 years ago with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "Resistance" is a new concept for most White Americans but Black Americans have been resisting the lies and cruelty of institutional racism since 1619. We believe in the rule of law because no one, not even White people, are safe without it. That is why we are in the forefront of saving our democratic republic.
Have you heard of the sapphire trope?
Recently in Canadian judicial news, ‘Being Black woman … while flying’:
https://apple.news/Afv1byzNTQGiLBqIpoplsRw
Yes, I know about the Sapphire stereotype. Re: the news link. Canada is not immune to bigotry but at least their government has not instituted a new Jim Crow era as Trump and the GOP have done in the US.
Well-written and timely, unfortunately. Textbook *true reverse discrimination.
The few Black women I know (Canada) are ALL exceptionally strong, smart & classy — but they shouldn’t have to be ‘exceptional’ in order to make it … anywhere … esp while some white folks cling to their willful ignorance & entitlement.
Trump has been well-managed this far, with respect to hiding/ rebranding his racism … with a lot of help from his modern day racist cronies in high places. More evidence of that in Texas voting rights today, specifically.
And with help from Musk (+ son Barron) they reached enough young men & maintained the dyed in the wool racists to restore their racist status quo. Kamila then had 2 strikes against her … Black & a woman.
Good to see the AOs & Jasmine Crocketts standing strong!
Thank you. Devastating statistics. With enormous harm to individuals and their families.
Clearly much I don't know about how civil service employees are paid. I thought civil service pay was set by regulations that were gender and race neutral. Same job, same pay.
Thank you for the statistics presented in this article. To round out my understanding, I decided to research the percentage of African Americans living in the U.S. and found that the U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts site was undergoing a maintenance cycle. I wonder how long that will continue and how the numbers will be manipulated to suit the current regime. As a seventy-three-year-old-White American, I am appalled at the targeting of Black Americans and the decimation of our government agencies and fear that it will take years and maybe decades to restore all that we have lost. And for what? So that we can have minority rule? That is not what our country was founded upon!
Is there any organized effort to file class action lawsuits? I would guess most of these federal employees weren't hired in the past 5 years and so could not be said to be "DEI hires" (the figleaf for discriminatory layoffs).