Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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Trump signed Executive Orders concerning immigration and the Civil Rights along with the D.E.I. to pull the plug on everyone and everything that deal with diversity and stripping citizenship to those who are already naturalized.
This reminds me of the many stories during Nazi Germany when Nazis would go door to door picking up Jews placing them on trains sending them to camps and then later to the gas chamber to die.
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Does this sound like what was done to hundreds of our Native brothers and sisters being pushed out of their homes and marching for miles to starve and die?
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There have been times I wondered with those who are against diversity and inclusion is a reality that has to be faced and not hidden. Staying aware of the awareness of racism and discrimination that still is running ramped in our country and Trump is the ringleader who started shutting down the D.E.I. in different parts of government and spreading to various companies who drunk the “Trump Kool-Aide” thinking it is for the best by making it the worst thing to do.
Here’s what Trump is thinking:
The White House
January 22, 2025
PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND EXPANDING INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an historic Executive Order that protects the civil rights of all Americans and expands individual opportunity by terminating radical DEI preferencing in federal contracting and directing federal agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination. It enforces long-standing federal statutes and faithfully advances the Constitution’s promise of colorblind equality before the law. This comprehensive order is the most important federal civil rights measure in decades:
It terminates “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) discrimination in the federal workforce, and in federal contracting and spending.
Federal hiring, promotions, and performance reviews will reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and not, under any circumstances, DEI-related factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.
The order requires OMB to streamline the federal contracting process to enhance speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil rights laws.
It revokes Executive Order 11246 contracting criteria mandating affirmative action
It bars the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs from pushing contractors to balance their workforce based on race, sex, gender identity, sexual preference, or religion.
It requires simple and unmistakable affirmation that contractors will not engage in illegal discrimination, including illegal DEI.
It directs all departments and agencies to take strong action to end private sector DEI discrimination, including civil compliance investigations.
It mandates the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education issue joint guidance regarding the measures and practices required to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
RESTORING THE VALUES OF INDIVIDUAL DIGNITY, HARD WORK, AND EXCELLENCE: Individual dignity, hard work, and excellence are fundamental to American greatness. This Executive Order reaffirms these values by ending the Biden-Harris Administration’s anti-constitutional and deeply demeaning “equity” mandates, terminating DEI, and protecting civil rights:
Reversing the progress made in the decades since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 toward a colorblind and competence-based workplace, radical DEI has dangerously tainted many of our critical businesses and influential institutions, including the federal government.
In the private sector, many corporations and universities use DEI as an excuse for biased and unlawful employment practices and illegal admissions preferences, ignoring the fact that DEI’s foundational rhetoric and ideas foster intergroup hostility and authoritarianism.
Billions of dollars are spent annually on DEI, but rather than reducing bias and promoting inclusion, DEI creates and then amplifies prejudicial hostility and exacerbates interpersonal conflict.
PRESIDENT TRUMP PROMISED AND DELIVERED: President Trump promised to terminate DEI in the federal government, protect equal opportunity, and force schools to end discriminatory admissions policies, and he delivered. Every man and woman should have the opportunity to go as far as their hard work, individual initiative, and competence can take them. In America, excellence, grit, and determination is our strength. (Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Protects Civil Rights and Merit-Based Opportunity by Ending Illegal DEI — The White House)
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Of course, all lives do matter but we have Black brothers and sisters getting gunned down for no reason or another. Of course, all lives do matter but what about those fought for Civil Rights and getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed to have those Civil Rights as anybody else.
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Kenneth R. Jenkins Freelance writer, poet, podcast host/producer, minister, author, devoted husband living in Savannah, GA.