Trump is poised to launch unprecedented attack on racial justice. We are ready to fight back

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – “Every nation’s history includes unsettling truths that many would prefer to forget or deny. But true patriotism demands confronting the truths of our history – no matter how embarrassing or dishonorable – and undertaking the difficult work of learning from the lessons of our past in order to move forward. For the United States, that work requires reckoning with our shameful legacy of racial subjugation of Black people in this country – from slavery and Jim Crow to mass incarceration and police violence – as well as our long history of express discrimination against other people of color, women, and LGBTQ persons. Without uninhibited discussion and examination of that legacy, we are ill-equipped as a nation to address its ongoing manifestations in present-day forms of discrimination and bias.” – National Urban League v. TrumpRelated Stories At the current rate of progress, it will take between 100 and 300 years for Black Americans to achieve parity with White Americans.First annually and now biannually, the National Urban League publishes the Equality Index, a calculation of the social and economic status of African Americans relative to Whites. Rooted in the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787, which counted enslaved African Americans as “three-fifths”...