Have you watched the Handmaid’s Tale? A TV series based on a book from the 80s that foresaw a future that in some form is not seeming far off at all. Trump’s administration is one tiny aggression at a time looking to close off any progress our society has made and literally destroy the already thin fabric of the United States.

Affirmative Action is absolutely far from perfect however many young men and women of color have only managed to get an education due to it! It has allowed people otherwise overlooked by a historically racist system to at least get a foot on the ladder.

Now Trump’s administration is apparently looking at dismantling this and actually threatening to sue schools it basically sees as discriminating against whites.

USA Today wrote:

The internal announcement to the Justice Department’s civil rights division puts out a call for lawyers interested in working on a new project focused on “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions,” the Times reported.

Supporters and detractors of the project told the Times that the project was clearly going after programs that benefit black and Latino students and other groups.

Roger Clegg, a key official in the civil rights division in the Reagan and Bush administrations, told the Times that the project was “long overdue.”

“The civil rights laws were deliberately written to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is frequently the case that not only are whites discriminated against now, but frequently Asian-Americans are as well,” Clegg said.

But Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said the project is “misaligned” with the central objectives of the department’s civil rights division.

“It would be a dog whistle that could invite a lot of chaos and unnecessarily create hysteria among colleges and universities who may fear that the government may come down on them for their efforts to maintain diversity on their campuses,” Clarke told the Times.