Project 2025 is a 900-page ultra-conservative roadmap detailing how former President Donald Trump and his allies would reorganize the U.S. government if elected president, according to a new report. It has a specific impact on black Americans.
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), an organization that fights for racial justice, recently published the most detailed legal analysis of Project 2025’s impact on the Black community. The film highlights how black Americans are harmed by policies that undermine anti-discrimination laws. Dismantle the Department of Education. threaten black political power. increasing the use of the death penalty (which disproportionately affects black people); and exacerbate health disparities caused by environmental racism.
Carla McCanders, director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI), LDF’s in-house research think tank, which produced the report, said: “I want people to understand the impact,” he said.
McCanders said the report is written in plain language and is being shared on social media because the organization wants to make it available to a wide audience. “The most important part of the report is how Project 2025 will impact individual lives and how individual lives will be upended through policy proposals.”
Of note, he said, are the report’s chapters on educational equity and political participation.
“We are looking at proposals to dismantle the Department of Education. (It) may be an abstract concept that people hear about, but in terms of how it impacts individual lives. , we take it to a more concrete level,” she said. “Focusing on pre-K, Project 2025 proposes eliminating the Head Start program for pre-K. The report shows that 28% of Head Start enrollees are Black children. The statistics are: It will undermine educational efforts for all children, but it will disproportionately impact Black and Latino students in particular and widen the achievement gap.”
The report states that the impact of the implementation of Project 2025 will be felt by students from pre-kindergarten to university.
“Project 2025 proposes rescinding the Pell Grant, but Black students are overwhelmingly the recipients of the Pell Grant,” McCander said. “Project 2025 envisions returning all responsibility for monitoring schools and the discrimination that occurs in them to the state and local level.”
Furthermore, Mr. McCanders emphasized the impact that Project 2025, if implemented, would have on black political participation and political power. The plan aims to replace civil servants with political appointees, which would likely eradicate nonpartisanship in existing federal jobs. McCanders cited the Census Bureau as an example of the consequences of such an appointment.
“Dismantling the Census Bureau would impact the undercounting of Black communities, which would trickle down and disproportionately impact the distribution of both political seats and resources to Black communities through federal funding. “It’s going to happen,” she said.
Over the past decade or so, TMI has conducted research on water rights and water equity. Because natural and man-made environmental disasters disproportionately impact Black communities, dismantling existing federal agencies intended to provide some relief to disaster victims would have a particularly negative impact on Black and Brown people. will give.
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If Project 2025 is successful, agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) will be dismantled or dismantled. The loss of either could be particularly devastating, especially in the context of Hurricanes Helen and Milton, as the former is essential for setting environmental standards and the latter assists disaster victims. There is a gender.
“Resources provided by the federal government when natural disasters occur help communities get back on their feet,” McCanders said. “This report looks at what we have done so far in terms of ensuring equal access to environmental resources and how Project 2025 seeks to dismantle and abolish some of those resources. What matters is how this exacerbates existing inequalities for black communities.”
While much of the existing focus on Project 2025 so far has been “abstract” and focused on the broader idea of undermining democracy, McCanders said that the direct impact Project 2025 has on people is We believe it is important to emphasize the impact of Still, she points out that some states, such as Georgia, where at least two women have died from restrictive abortion care, and Oklahoma, where diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are prohibited in public institutions, We acknowledge that people are already living according to the prototype policies of Project 2025.
“In certain areas (we’re) already seeing how individual lives are turned upside down. It’s important that people understand how this affects them and how it impacts their personal lives. We really want it to be a tool for that.”
