Under the Trump Administration, Racism is National Policy!
By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted on September 7, 2026
An Editorial Opinion
While explicit federal laws mandating racial segregation and discrimination were largely dismantled by mid-20th-century civil rights legislation, systemic and structural racism continues to function through deeply entrenched institutional practices and the persistence of the myth of race-neutral policy.
Today, the Trump administration has made intentional racism against Americans of color national policy. It also rewards the infliction of government-sponsored cruelty against these Americans.
Historical National Policies
For more than four centuries, legal frameworks in racism in the United States explicitly codified racial hierarchy:
Slavery and Segregation: Constitutional and statutory provisions legally categorized people by race to deny basic human rights and legal protections.
Redlining: Federal housing policies from the 1930s onward explicitly graded neighborhoods by race, denying mortgages to Black home buyers and segregating wealth accumulation.
Exclusionary Laws: Early immigration and naturalization laws explicitly barred non-white groups from citizenship and land ownership.
The Role of Systemic Racism Today
Although overt legal discrimination is illegal, systemic racism operates through institutional habits, unwritten rules, Trump-issued Executive Orders, and resource allocation:
Criminal Justice: Disparities in policing, sentencing, and the carceral state continue to disproportionately impact communities of color.
Economic Inequality: Wealth gaps persist because historical exclusions prevented families from passing down generational property and capital.
Voting Access: Voter suppression tactics and structural rules can disenfranchise large numbers of minority voters, reducing political representation.
Attacks on DEI: Led by Donald Trump, the federal government and U.S. Supreme Court openly attacked and dismantled every policy and program that assured Americans of color an equal opportunity to participant in the socio-economic benefits of American society.
The Myth of Race-Neutral Policy
Assuming that a policy is fair simply because it does not explicitly mention race often ignores historical disparities. When rules treat unequal starting points as identical, they inadvertently reinforce and perpetuate existing structural disadvantages.
Finally, non-MAGA Americans across the nation finally realize that the Trump administration is openly anti-Black and racist. The White House and federal government reflect Trump's deeply-held, multigenerational, and court-certified racist views toward Black Americans
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