Critics are warning black voters about Trump’s “anti-white racism” agenda if he is re-elected

A possible second Trump administration will reportedly try to roll back capital programs intended to handle generations of discrimination against Black and Brown Americans.

Democratic strategists are sounding the alarm amongst black voters after a report indicates that if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump returns to the White House, his allies and longtime associates will prioritize policies on “anti-white racism.”

According to Axlesa possible second Trump administration will seek to roll back capital programs designed to handle generations of discrimination against Black and Brown Americans, including decades-old federal programs and essentially the most recent programs established by President Joe Biden.

“I wish I could say this report is shocking, but honestly, the Trump campaign has been nothing short of consistent in defending white supremacy and extremist policies,” Jamarr Brown, executive director of Color of Change PAC, told the Grio Journal. “The Trump candidacy has always been entirely focused on creating a more hostile world for Black people while dismantling any pre-existing protections for Black communities.”

In a manifesto referred to as Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank advised by former Trump presidential transition director Johnny McEntee, lays out a conservative agenda for a hypothetical second Trump administration.

The nearly 900-page guide includes policy guidelines akin to ending what it calls “affirmative discrimination,” including diversity, inclusion and equality programs, which it says are “tools” of “unlawful discrimination.” In other words, the document suggests that equity programs under Biden and the previous administration discriminate against white people.

In March 2023, Trump it slammed shut President Biden’s executive order establishing an equity lens across the federal government, calling it a “Marxist concept.” The former Republican president, if elected in November, has vowed to “get this extremism out of the White House, out of the military, out of the Department of Justice and out of our government.”

“As Trump and his allies plan to dismantle ‘anti-white’ racism, we must really highlight the real disparities in our system that require federal protections for Black people,” said Brown of Color of Change PAC.

The former executive director of the Texas Democratic Party rejected Trump-aligned numbers that suggest federal systems rooted in equality are “broken” because they were “never built to work for all communities and people in the first place.”

“Our educational spaces, our economy, our criminal justice systems and our electoral systems are designed to operate exclusively for the white and wealthy,” he added.

The concept of anti-white racism has already seen success in high-profile legal battles, a few of which were devised by Trump’s allies and advisers.

In 2021, a Texas judge ruled against the Biden administration’s $29 billion Covid-19 restaurant relief program for girls and minority-owned businesses on the grounds that it discriminates against a white male restaurant owner. The plaintiff within the case was represented by the America First Legal Foundation, a conservative litigation firm founded by Stephen Miller, a former Trump White House adviser.

The legal argument within the Texas case focused on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which states that no state may deprive an individual of life, liberty, or property without due strategy of law. The clause has historically been utilized in landmark cases that ended racial segregation in schools, upheld race-conscious affirmative motion in college admissions, and guarded the voting rights of Black Americans.

Today, conservative litigants are winning lawsuits under the identical clause of the 14th Amendment on behalf of white residents, alleging that they’ve been harmed by programs designed to handle generational inequalities affecting Black communities. So far, the Equal Protection Clause has been used to effectively end President Biden’s debt relief program for Black farmers and force the Minority Business Development Agency to open its programs to white businesses reasonably than disadvantaged communities.

The clause of the 14th Amendment has also been used to invalidate race-based affirmative motion, which was decided by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court and made possible by three of President Trump’s nominees.

Reecie Colbert, a Democratic strategist and commentator, told TheGrio that the Project 2025 agenda and legal cases derailing equity programs intended to eliminate racial disparities affecting Black and brown communities are “the opening salvo to what we would see under a Trump administration.”

“They’re trying to make us second-class citizens (and) bring us back to the Jim Crow era,” said Colbert, who warned Black voters that “our citizenship will be on the ballot in 2024.” She added: “I don’t know if it has dawned on you yet how terrible the situation is.”

Colbert argued that even the Supreme Court’s ruling invalidating President Biden’s student loan debt relief program, which was intended to profit Black and brown borrowers, and the Republican-led effort to finish DEI programs are tied to the broader goal of thwarting all progress in addressing racism, disparities in wealth, education and business.

“They do it because… he is making progress. And really, DEI is an excuse to attack racial equality,” she said. “In the same way that CRT (Critical Race Theory) was an excuse to attack history taught even at the elementary school level.”

Antjuan Seawright, a longtime Democratic strategist, told TheGrio that if Trump and his allies’ plan becomes reality, it might completely “push us backwards full steam ahead.”

“Just releasing this kind of strategy or plan should be a friendly reminder to everyone, but especially Black people, that progress is not sustainable.” He added: “It’s a constant fight and it needs to be reinforced every day.”

Brown, of Color of Change PAC, said this 12 months’s election might be crucial in determining “the growth of Black communities across the country” and that recent revelations about Trump’s intentions if re-elected must be a “wake-up call to voters.”

“Not only for progressives to organize with a deeper understanding of what the Trump administration means for our movement, but also for those voters who have never cast a blue ballot,” he said.

“This report further demonstrates that the Trump White House cannot be accountable to our communities,” Brown added. “A huge part of the strength of our racial justice movement is our ability to guide policymakers toward reform policies and hold them accountable for impeding justice for Black people. This will not be possible if Trump’s white supremacist platform is given another term.”

The Biden-Harris campaign has found itself at odds with Trump’s projected agenda to roll back equity policies within the federal government.

“He is making it clear that if he wins in November, he will turn his racist past into official government policy, gutting programs that provide economic opportunities for communities of color and make life harder for Black and brown people,” said former U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, a co-chair of the Biden campaign -Harris.

“Already, his Project 2025 allies have blocked billions of dollars in support for women and minority-owned businesses, and if he wins a second term, they will take their divisive agenda even further. Our job is to stop him.”

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