Clyburn: Project 2025…Jim Crow 2.0

Getty Images Stock Illustration (BlackPressUSA)—In two years, we will celebrate our nation’s 250th& birthday. Our great country has survived a Civil War, two world wars, a Cold War, and a plethora of legislative and judicial fits and starts in our pursuit of a “more perfect Union.” We have endured some devastating Supreme Court decisions,& Dred Scott, The Slaughterhouse Cases,& and& Plessey v Ferguson,& to name just a few. We have survived some oppressive presidencies, Andrew Johnson, Rutherford Hayes, and Woodrow Wilson, tantamount among them. Johnson attempted to nullify the impact of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Hayes ended Reconstruction. Wilson’s policies towards federal civil service employment seem to be the foundation upon which a significant portion of Trump’s 2025 Project is built. But eliminating civil service jobs is not the only devastating and oppressive policy proposed by Trump’s Project 2025. Project 2025 is a detailed plan to update the efforts of Johnson and Hayes to limit Black participation in our society, deny women freedoms over their own bodies, and deny association and nuptial rights to our LBGTQ+ community. Trump’s Project 2025 is a radical agenda that would—among other things —eliminate the Department of Education, zero out federal funding to low-income schools,...