PROJECT 2025: BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE
Last year, in our P2025 flyer, we outlined the potential impact of the Project 2025 agenda on the lives of racial minorities and people of color. Now that Project 2025 is the de facto blueprint for American governance, we are taking a look back at our predictions to see how closely they mirror our current reality.
Did we get it right last year? All indications point to a resounding yes.
One of the first things Trump did after his inauguration on January 20, 2025 was to sign an executive order directing federal agencies to terminate grants and contracts related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). He also ended equal opportunity practices in awarding government contracts with an executive order the next day.
Since that time, Trump has:
· shuttered government DEI programs and placed their employees on leave.
· threatened to withdraw government contracts from corporations and other private interests, both here and abroad, that refuse to comply with his DEI directives.
· incentivized employees to expose hidden diversity programs inside the government.
· made systematic attempts to sanitize and whitewash American history by removing historical and educational content about the African-American experience from government agency websites and the Smithsonian Institution.
· launched investigations into 50+ universities across more than 40 states, accusing the schools of discriminating against white students and using "racial preferences and stereotypes in education programs and activities."
· signed an executive order dismantling the Department of Education, the agency charged with the responsibility of providing critical funding for the less-resourced districts that often serve students of color.
· begun orchestrating an attack on the safety net programs – social security, SNAP, Medicare, and Medicaid – that poor people of color rely upon, for the sole purpose of creating hefty tax breaks for billionaires like himself and Elon Musk.
· signed executive orders eviscerating the federal environmental justice and health programs that work to protect communities of color from becoming dumping grounds for toxic pollution.
In addition, as we predicted, brown-skinned Americans of all stripes are facing intense discrimination and - in some cases - forced deportation (despite a judge’s order halting the practice). Brown-skinned and native American citizens are increasingly being racially profiled. Undocumented and documented brown-skinned immigrants alike are forced to live under the constant threat and reality of ICE raids. People who are swept up in the dragnet – including people in the country legally - are frequently sent to places that may or may not be their home countries. They are often held in foreign prisons with deplorable conditions or returned to detention in the U.S.
We will try to keep you posted as things continue to evolve.
