(The Guardian) Project 2025 will ‘upend’ the lives of Black Americans, new report shows
Project 2025, the 900-page ultra-conservative roadmap that details how the former president Donald Trump and his allies would restructure the US government if he is elected, has specific implications for Black Americans, according to a new report.
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), an organisation that fights for racial justice, recently released the most in-depth legal analysis of Project 2025’s impact on Black communities. It highlights how Black Americans would be harmed due to policies that would weaken anti-discrimination laws; dismantle the Department of Education; threaten Black political power; increase the use of the death penalty (which disproportionately affects Black people); and exacerbate health disparities caused by environmental racism.
Karla McKanders, the director of the LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI), the in-house research thinktank that produced the report, said she wanted people to understand the “larger impact that Project 2025 will have on our democracy and undermining our democracy”.
The report is written in plain language and has been shared on social media, McKanders said, as the organization wants it to be available to a wide audience. “The most important part of the report is how Project 2025 will have an impact on individual lives and how those individual lives will be upended through the policy proposals.”
Of note, she said, are the report’s chapters on education equity and political participation.
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Project 2025, the 900-page ultra-conservative roadmap that details how the former president Donald Trump and his allies would restructure the US government if he is elected, has specific implications for Black Americans, according to a new report.
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), an organisation that fights for racial justice, recently released the most in-depth legal analysis of Project 2025’s impact on Black communities. It highlights how Black Americans would be harmed due to policies that would weaken anti-discrimination laws; dismantle the Department of Education; threaten Black political power; increase the use of the death penalty (which disproportionately affects Black people); and exacerbate health disparities caused by environmental racism.
Karla McKanders, the director of the LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI), the in-house research thinktank that produced the report, said she wanted people to understand the “larger impact that Project 2025 will have on our democracy and undermining our democracy”.
The report is written in plain language and has been shared on social media, McKanders said, as the organization wants it to be available to a wide audience. “The most important part of the report is how Project 2025 will have an impact on individual lives and how those individual lives will be upended through the policy proposals.”
Of note, she said, are the report’s chapters on education equity and political participation.
Project 2025 will ‘upend’ the lives of Black Americans, new report shows
Legal analysis released by Legal Defense Fund highlights specific harms rightwing plan poses to Black communities
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