Trump’s Purging of Black Officials Makes Latent Racism Official Policy

Trump’s purging of Black officials makes latent racism official policy

President Trump’s firings send a clear message that white mediocrity is always preferable to Black achievement. By Erin Aubry Kaplan for Capital & Main Back in 1986, when I was a first-year graduate student in theater arts at UCLA, a white professor...

The Purging of Black Officials Makes Latent Racism Official Policy - The Sacramento Observer

By Erin Aubry Kaplan This article was produced by the nonprofit publication Capital & Main. It is published here with permission. Back in 1986, when I was a first-year graduate student in theater arts at UCLA, a white professor called me into his office to break some bad news: The term paper I’d turned in wasn’t mine, he said. It was plagiarized. I was astonished. Of course the paper was mine. I had an undergraduate degree in English and had spe…

President Trump’s idea of a ‘Black Job’ seems to be ‘No Job’… - Utica Phoenix

Al Sharpton’s Politics Nation 10/11/25 recounted that a New York Times Analysis found that in President Trump’s first 200 days, only 2 out of 98 administrative appointments went to African Americans – that’s less than 2%.  This is much less than the 21% under President Biden, and the 13% under President Obama. In addition to the lack of hiring, there have been the massive firings. The white house has been systematically removing Black officials …