Tearing DEI out by the roots! Trump rescinds Lyndon Johnson’s affirmative action EO
Trump is laying waste to the racist DEI regime, not only in government but in the public sector.
President Donald Trump evidently means business when it comes to eliminating racist DEI initiatives and other forms of race-based discrimination, both new and old.
On Tuesday, he issued an executive order directing all executive government departments and agencies to eliminate “all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements,” as well to combat similarly discriminatory DEI policies and activities.
Trump left virtually no ground for dissenting federal bureaucrats to take a stand on, rescinding President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246, which required that government contractors take affirmative action, as well as other race-prioritizing executive actions issued by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
In his order, titled “Ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” Trump noted that while federal civil rights laws protect Americans from discrimination, roughly 60 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, numerous influential institutions, both private and public, “have adopted and actively use dangerous, demeaning, and…