Democrats Protest Because Trump Ends Racism

Major changes are taking place in the Department of Justice (DOJ) with the new focus on eliminating institutionalized racism. The Civil Rights laws were passed in the 1960s to end the racism that had been a part of our society. 60 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, in some instances, some racial groups have not advanced economically despite the lack of institutional racism. 

When it became evident that certain racial groups were not getting ahead, leftist organizations convinced the Democrat Party that the only way to achieve similar economic outcomes of all racial groups was to institute racial discrimination as a tool to create similar economic outcomes. 

If a Mexican- American was not getting ahead and an Indian- American was succeeding, discrimination against the Indian-American was allowed. If a black American was falling behind a white person, discrimination against the white person was acceptable.

Across our country, state governments, local governments, school boards and universities began practicing racial discrimination against previously advantaged racial groups. One of the problems with this tactic was that it created resentment among people in the formerly advantaged racial group because these people were not the people that had discriminated against others in the past. Imagine attempting to penalize an American because his grandfather had once robbed a bank.

No one would address the point that these acts of discrimination were unlawful. Civil rights became a results-oriented system of spoils, a form of Marxism that guarantees group outcomes, group preferences and group discrimination against the formerly advantaged people. This was totally out of step with the wording and intent of our civil rights laws. 

President Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon as the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. Her goal is to eradicate affirmative action and DEI in every part of the Federal government.

Trump gave notice of his intentions by issuing an executive order that took aim at DEI. He said that DEI policies “threaten the safety of American men, women and children across the nation by diminishing the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work and determination when selecting people for jobs and services in key sectors of American society.”

Most Americans now acknowledge that using discrimination to fight past discrimination is not a good tactic and the courts have determined that such discrimination is unconstitutional.

A decade ago, people joked that DEI was okay because it would never be used to promote pilots and physicians based on their race. Sadly, what was joked about became the reality. 

Of course, the left wing media and the Democrats have held rallies across our country to protest the fact that they can no longer discriminate in hiring practices and university admissions. They had grown used to the spoils of getting hired or advanced in their careers based on their racial identity instead of merit. 

Hopefully, the new focus on meritocracy will lead to an America that is fair for everyone. Raising the bar can be painful, but over time people will adapt and be proud of what they can accomplish through hard work and perseverance.