NEWS ANALYSIS: Project 2025 Will Assault Black People First; then Everybody Else

By Barrington M. Salmon | Trice Edney Wire(TriceEdneyWire.com) – If Donald Trump becomes president again, African-Americans stand to lose the most. But so do women, other Black people, brown folks and immigrants – documented and undocumented.This is not a conjecture.The Center for American Progress says Project 2025’s sweeping tentacles would touch and influence just about every facet of American life with the goal of implementing “an authoritarian playbook that would destroy the system of checks and balances our forefathers designed when they sought freedom and popular sovereignty almost 250 years ago.Their researchers continue, “In dissolving the American idea, the plan’s extremist policies would give far-right politicians, judges, and corporations more control over Americans’ lives.”The LDF Thurgood Marshall Center concurs.& & “Project 2025 represents a direct and deliberate threat to Black communities across seven key areas addressed in this report: civil rights, education, political participation, the criminal legal system, housing, reproductive rights, and environmental protections,” Thurgood Marshall officials write. “At its core, it aims to dismantle essential agencies and regulations that protect civil rights while promoting anti-democratic and anti-justice initiatives that will weaponize civil rights enforcement by federal agencies. These proposals are designed to erode the very principles of equality, justice,...