Trump's Flagrant Racism - The American Prospect

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Several weeks ago, the Prospect ran a feature article of mine pointing out that Trump’s war on DEI was a cover for simple racism. It was a thinly disguised excuse to assume that any Black official must have gotten the job because of racial preferences, and thus to discriminate explicitly against Blacks.

I actually understated Trump’s evil and cynicism. Last week, Trump abruptly fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, a Black librarian of national distinction. Hayden’s term appointment had another year to run, making the dismissal illegal as well.

Hayden previously served as head of the public library systems of Chicago and Baltimore, and as president of the American Library Association. When she was appointed in 2016 by President Obama, more than 140 library, publishing, educational, and academic organizations signed a letter of support. The Senate confirmed her 74 to 18, with most Republicans voting to confirm.

The post is not a partisan position. Nobody in the Republican-led Congress had sought Hayden’s dismissal. It was pure Trump.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a stunning display of either ignorance or pure BS, told reporters Friday that Hayden had been “putting inappropriate books in the library for children.” The Library of Congress does not lend books to children, or indeed to adults.

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-13-trumps-flagrant-racism/

[crud]

1. Add to this, the "horribly oppressed" white folk

from South Africa...racism is their number one priority.