America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries

 "Trump’s reelection in 2024 signaled that a large swath of white America was unwilling to struggle any longer over race matters. Instead, he reasserted the fantasy of a white Republic. With stunning efficiency and clarity, his administration set out to destroy the basic governmental infrastructure of civil rights. He attacked DEI in the public and private sectors; instructed federal agencies to stop enforcing key civil rights protections; engaged in an all-out assault on American education, using diversity initiatives as examples of reverse discrimination; gutted the civil rights division of the Justice Department; ended consent decrees with police departments around the country; attempted to upend over a hundred years of jurisprudence with his effort to end birthright citizenship; and implemented cruel immigration policies. It feels as if Trump and his supporters pine not only for a time before Ferguson and Minneapolis, but for the days before the civil rights movement—the days of segregation. They also seem to yearn for an understanding of the nation’s past that made segregation necessary and a fact of life. Black people and white people knew their place then. White people were at the center of everything, innocently inhabiting a nation of unblemished virtue and seamless progress. Black people were on the margins, quietly playing bit parts in the great nation’s history. This, they believe, is the true American story—storybook democracy."

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