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like all cops? source? or you are just making shit up to deflect because that has nothing to do with what he did today.while granting cops full immunity
Black Fraternities And Sororities Face Uncertain Future As Trump Ramps Up Anti-DEI Push
February 23, 2025
Other race- and gender-based student organizations could also end.
College student groups based on ethnicity or race could be in peril if the Trump Administration’s Department of Education is successful at expanding the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling regarding race-based affirmative action, the administration’s argument would thus center on applying the Court’s decision to every aspect of campus life.
According to The Hill, groups such as the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, are concerned about what could happen to those groups, including Black fraternities and sororities, which were originally developed in response to segregation and discrimination.
As the group’s CEO and president, Paulette Grandberry Russell said in a statement to the outlet, “There is legitimate concern that the new administration may seek to restrict student organizations, including registered student organizations, and perhaps even fraternities and sororities with a nondiscriminatory focus on race, ethnicity, gender, religion and other cultural identities that the DOE determines are prohibited.”
Likewise, Marybeth Gasman, the executive director at the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at Rutgers University, is similarly concerned about how the Trump Administration is choosing to apply the concept of race neutrality, which Gasman says doesn’t square with how the concept is supposed to work.
“I am concerned that the Trump administration could target student organizations that are racial affinity groups. They will claim they are enforcing ‘race neutrality’ — which makes no sense,” Gasman told The Hill, adding that “legal precedent strongly protects the right of free association per the First Amendment, which means that any attempts to end these organizations would end up in the courts.”
As BLACK ENTERPRISE previously reported, following the confirmation hearing of Trump’s pick to head the DOE, Linda McMahon, the department sent out a “Dear Colleague” letter.
Despite the letter’s lack of the force of law, it nonetheless presents institutions with an ultimatum to comply with the Trump Administration’s position on diversity, equity and inclusion or lose funding, and gave them 14 days to accomplish this task.
According to Craig Trainor, the acting secretary for civil rights at the Education Department, “The Department of Education will no longer allow education entities to discriminate on the basis of race. This isn’t complicated. When in doubt, every school should consult the SFFA legal test contained in the DCL: ‘If an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person’s race, the educational institution violates the law.’ Additional guidance on implementation is forthcoming.”
The positions of the Trump Administration’s Department of Education and those of American universities are in direct opposition and are going to set up a legal fight, one that universities need to be prepared for.
According to Sara Partridge, the associate director of higher education at the Center for American Progress, any action of the Trump Administration that would curtail federal funding for violations regarding what it sets forth about DEI would be unprecedented in the history of the United States of America.
“Typically, following a civil rights complaint, the Office of Civil Rights does an investigation. If they conclude that a violation has occurred, institutions are given the opportunity to voluntarily amend their policies. So, the dramatic step of actually taking federal financial aid away from institutions would be very harmful to students, but historically, there has been a process for institutions to remedy any issues before it gets to that point,” Partridge said.
She concluded, “So, it’s yet to be seen how this administration will use the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education, but to take away federal funding as a result of civil rights violations as this letter frames them would be completely unprecedented.”
I imagine they are celebrating this. Didn't see it on the board.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-alice-johnson-pardon-czar/
President Trump is tapping Alice Johnson, the 69-year-old grandmother he granted clemency in his first term over long-ago drug offenses, to be his "pardon czar."
The president made the announcement during a Black History Month event in the White House East Room Thursday afternoon. Johnson spent over 21 years in prison for nonviolent drug-related crimes when Mr. Trump commuted her sentence and she was released in 2018. Mr. Trump later issued her a full pardon.
"You've been an inspiration to people, and we're going to be listening to your recommendation on pardons," Mr. Trump told Johnson on Thursday. " You're going to go over and you're going to be — you're going to, she's going to be my pardon czar, okay? And you're going to find people just like you that should not this should not have happened. It should not have happened. So you're going to look and you're going to make recommendations, and I'll follow those recommendations, okay? For pardons. All right?"
Mr. Trump said Johnson was "in prison for doing something that today probably wouldn't even be prosecuted."
Johnson was convicted in 1996 for "leading a multi-million-dollar drug ring that dealt in tons of cocaine"in the early 1990s, according to a report in The Tennessean at the time. She was tried on charges of cocaine conspiracy and money-laundering charges. She was sentenced to life plus 25 years behind bars.
I seriously googled to see if this was a joke.
but see this shit right hereMuch of the Black middle class was built by federal jobs. That may change.
Summary
For the last several decades, federal jobs helped Black workers find stable work with guardrails to prevent bias, but mass cuts are threatening decades of upward mobility.
Feb. 22, 2025, 9:00 AM EST
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When Francine Verdine took a job as a clerk at the Internal Revenue Service in Houston in 1983, it was supposed to be a stopgap until something better came along. She didn’t expect that 42 years later, she would look back on it as the start of a rewarding career that provided growth in various management positions, upward mobility and the opportunity to build a comfortable life for her family.
As a probationary employee, she said she was not eligible for it. “I could have used that paycheck as I looked for another job,” Patterson said.
She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”
She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
I wish this were the case. We have individuals who are willing to let it burn for their interests and theirs alone. Joker was a pure anarchist, which I'd get behind before this shit that happening for real.Feels like this is happening right now!!
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