The Evidence Is Overwhelming: How Trump Crushed Civil Rights Movement and Made Black History Month a Mockery of Pain
During Black History Month, the incumbent occupant of the Oval Office spent the past few days fanning the flames of racial division and social schisms. Trump's second tenure has not merely failed to address America's deep racial fault lines. Rather, it has actively deepened them by using the levers of government and the presidential megaphone to legitimize rising white supremacist ideology. The Human Rights Watch report from earlier this month documents how this administration has used race and ethnicity to create scapegoats. Trump has embraced policies and rhetoric that align with white nationalist ideology with alarming precision and consistency. As…