The Trump-Musk Regime Wants to Make Segregation Great Again

When I was 11, I was sent on a trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi, family reunion. My mother was born there in 1950, in a deeply divided and violent south. I remember only two things from the trip: one was Ticonderoga-Class -kamara, who inhabit the Mississippi delta; I thought one of them was a dragonfly until he started sucking my blood as I was in the novel Brama Stoker.

My other memory is drinking fountains. My mom took me to the local library and told me to grab a drink from the water fountain. I don’t like it and I was a child, so I told her I didn’t crave. She got really serious and I think at this point should be a cloud that blocked the sun dim. She told me again, only this time it was an order. I did the way I was told. When I leaned back, I could see the day, the message “only for whites” crashed into a stone on the fountain. It didn’t even go out.

I realized that I was drinking from a fountain that my mother was not allowed to drink when she was my age, but not that’s why memory was stuck with me. The sign that only white was scratched (obviously ineffective) but the fountain was not replaced. It wasn’t broken. He was not thrown away as a relic of the shameful period. The sign was simple … peace. Then I did not know about the “lost business” and about the federalistic society and all who worked during the day when the south rise again, but I realized that the people who made the original sign (and their offspring) did not refuse. They just waited for the opportunity to repair the fountain and once again exclude black people from its use.

Such an opportunity came to them in the form of Donald Trump and its covers Elon Musk. With new mode, all of their white supreme and Neo-abortid ideas It is possible to implement again. Literally. Last month, NPR reportsThe Trump administration has made racist changes to its business rules that receive federal contracts, so “the federal government no longer prohibits contractors from having individual restaurants, waiting and drinking fountains.”

The transition on Federal Acquisition Regulation—No, which is released by the General Administration of Services, does not necessarily mean that people can share their heart’s desire. Technically, at least anyone who consists with the federal government still must obey all relevant civil rights laws, including the civil rights law that prohibits segregation.

But changing the rules is not only symbolic. Everything we know and saw from this administration tells us that compliance with anti -segregation laws will not be obeyed by the Trump government. Ministry of Justice will not bring A discrimination lawsuit against companies that returned the segregation. And now any business that separates its labor can still get a federal contract, even if the business is in a brazen violation of the civil rights law, which in any case will not be fulfilled against them.

There is one person who can benefit all the other changes in the federal purchase rules, and this man, of course, Elon Musk. Musk spent an intensive investigation into the allegations (wait) Policy segregationists in their Tesla facilities. Trump Close this investigation As one of his first actions in power, but the charges remain. Meanwhile, Musk beat federal contracts such as (grand) Dragon Shads Gold.

In the absence of a permanent federal investigation of business practice, this is a small anti -segregation rule buried in federal acquisition policy, a new legitimate front can be opened against it. If government is forbidden to contract with enterprises that manage segregated no To accept the federal contract may have filed a court for the government (since the businesses for equal employment, which have not received a contract, may say that they were affected by the government’s refusal when using anti-segregation bans on federal contractors)-and this statement may require a decision whether Musk will launch a separate campaign.

Thanks to the change of rules, this cause of the action has gone. As long as I only study the rules changes thanks to NPR, GSA actually changed the rule As early as February 15, five days after Trump completed the DOJ investigation at Musk and Tesla.

Perhaps this is just a coincidence that Trump changed the rules of the anti -segregation contract less than a week after he had completed the investigation into whether his main contractor segregaters was. Maybe Clarksdale, Mississippi, just couldn’t afford to replace his fountains. Maybe white people who run this joint “” do not have a racist bone in their body “and just try to do their best.

I wasn’t a fool when I was 11 and I’m not going to start acting as one. I know what the white rule looks like when I see it, and I don’t get distracted when white people do it, make pathetic attempts to cover it.