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New Trump Administration Policy Would Make Racism OK as Long as You Don't Mean It
Michael Harriot
January 9, 2019
While America is engaged in a heated debate about the border wall and the government shutdown, at least three cabinet-level departments inside the Trump administration have been quietly investigating how they could roll back a particularly important legal precedent that prevents discrimination in housing, employment, policing and even education.
The Washington Post reports that the Department of Justice recently issued an internal memo directing top civil rights officials inside the Department of Justice to examine how disparate impact regulations can be changed or removed. Similar efforts are also underway at the Department of Education as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Washington Post writes that conservatives have wanted to erode the principal for years, writing:
Past Republican administrations have done little to erode the concept’s application, partly out of concerns that the Supreme Court might disagree, or that such changes would be unpopular and viewed as racist...
But conservatives have long argued that proving discrimination should require proof that someone intended to treat people differently. And they say that if people are being judged by numbers, they may feel pressure to make decisions based on racial quotas.
That’s right. Donald Trump wants to make racism okay unless someone can prove the accused party intended to discriminate against them. To be fair, if this concept was in place when Trump settled a federal housing discrimination lawsuit, he still would have lost after a doorman who worked in Trump’s building revealed that he was told: “If a black person came to 2650 Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent, and he, that is [redacted] was not there at the time, that I should tell him that the rent was twice as much as it really was, in order that he could not afford the apartment.”
Under the Trump theory of jurisprudence, poll taxes, all-white schools and redlining — the federal policy that basically banned banks from issuing government-backed home loans in black neighborhoods — would still be legal as long as the racists didn’t broadcast their intent.
New Trump Administration Policy Would Make Racism OK as Long as You Don't Mean It
New Trump Administration Policy Would Make Racism OK as Long as You Don't Mean It
Michael Harriot
January 9, 2019
While America is engaged in a heated debate about the border wall and the government shutdown, at least three cabinet-level departments inside the Trump administration have been quietly investigating how they could roll back a particularly important legal precedent that prevents discrimination in housing, employment, policing and even education.
The Washington Post reports that the Department of Justice recently issued an internal memo directing top civil rights officials inside the Department of Justice to examine how disparate impact regulations can be changed or removed. Similar efforts are also underway at the Department of Education as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Washington Post writes that conservatives have wanted to erode the principal for years, writing:
Past Republican administrations have done little to erode the concept’s application, partly out of concerns that the Supreme Court might disagree, or that such changes would be unpopular and viewed as racist...
But conservatives have long argued that proving discrimination should require proof that someone intended to treat people differently. And they say that if people are being judged by numbers, they may feel pressure to make decisions based on racial quotas.
That’s right. Donald Trump wants to make racism okay unless someone can prove the accused party intended to discriminate against them. To be fair, if this concept was in place when Trump settled a federal housing discrimination lawsuit, he still would have lost after a doorman who worked in Trump’s building revealed that he was told: “If a black person came to 2650 Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent, and he, that is [redacted] was not there at the time, that I should tell him that the rent was twice as much as it really was, in order that he could not afford the apartment.”
Under the Trump theory of jurisprudence, poll taxes, all-white schools and redlining — the federal policy that basically banned banks from issuing government-backed home loans in black neighborhoods — would still be legal as long as the racists didn’t broadcast their intent.
New Trump Administration Policy Would Make Racism OK as Long as You Don't Mean It