{"id":135639,"date":"2024-08-20T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135639"},"modified":"2024-08-20T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:37:00","slug":"why-black-folks-should-be-terrified-of-project-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135639","title":{"rendered":"Why Black Folks Should Be Terrified Of Project 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0<\/strong>By Candace McDuffie (Published in<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The Root\u2019 on Friday)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Heritage Foundation outlined a dangerous plan if Trump<\/strong> becomes President again.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project 2025, a 920-page policy document, was devised\u00a0by the conservative<\/a>\u00a0Heritage Foundation and\u00a0outlines a far-right<\/a>\u00a0Christian agenda for Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> second presidential term if he wins the election in November. The plan will dismantle educational opportunities for Black people, go after LGBTQ+ protections, cut Medicare and stop \u201canti-white racism,\u201d among other things.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here are just a few reasons why Black folks should be terrified of Project 2025.<\/p>\n

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Firing Thousands Of Government Employees<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Biden-Harris<\/strong> administration has the most diverse staff in this country\u2019s history, with 50 percent of current employees describing themselves as racially or ethnically diverse. Project 2025 would eliminate job protections for those government employees who could be replaced by political appointees \u2014 making the White House full of white MAGA supporters.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the Treasury Department, the document says the next administration should \u201ctreat the participation in any critical race theory or DEI initiative without objecting on constitutional or moral grounds, as per se grounds for termination of employment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Getting Rid Of Abortion Pill<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo:\u00a0Kansas City Star\u00a0(Getty Images)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the Project 2025 blueprint, it requests that the Food and Drug Administration reverse its 24-year-old approval of the widely used abortion pill, mifepristone. It also calls for the Justice Department to enforce the Comstock Act against providers and distributors of abortion pills \u2014 all of which will disproportionately affect Black women who have the highest rate of maternal deaths during childbirth.<\/p>\n

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Doing Away With \u2018WOKE Propaganda\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The blueprint insists that the Trump<\/strong> administration will go against \u201cwoke propaganda\u201d which includes having a long list of terms banned from all laws and federal regulations like \u201csexual orientation,\u201d \u201cgender equality,\u201d \u201cDEI,\u201d \u201cgender equity,\u201d \u201cabortion\u201d and \u201creproductive rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eviscerating LGBTQ+ Rights<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project 2025 plans to dismantle the rights of transgender people and well as the rights of same-sex married couples. It says that children should be raised by their \u201cbiological\u201d fathers and mothers since the \u201cmale-female dyad is essential to human nature.\u201d The blueprint also equates the act of being transgender, or \u201ctransgender ideology,\u201d to pornography and states it should be outlawed.<\/p>\n

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Getting Rid Of Loan Forgiveness<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Project 2025 encourages putting an end to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Currently, the program provides student loan relief to borrowers who work in federal, state, local or tribal governments as well as nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n

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Attacking Critical Race Theory<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo:\u00a0Jeffrey Greenberg\u00a0(Getty Images)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The creators of the blueprint believe teaching Critical Race Theory in schools would make white students feels bad. According to Project 2025, they would \u201cnot require students or teachers to believe that individuals are guilty or responsible for the actions of others based on race or ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Limiting Education For Black Students<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo:\u00a0Drew Angerer\u00a0(Getty Images)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the racist practice of \u201cschool choice,\u201d which would widen the educational gap between Black and white students, those who send their kids to disproportionately Christian and white private schools would be rewarded. Project 2025 also wants to get rid of Head Start, a federal educational readiness program for qualifying children during their first five years.<\/p>\n

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Weakening Black-Owned Businesses<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Biden-Harris<\/strong> administration has provided funding for Black businesses. However, Project 2025 would get rid of programs aimed to help them. In addition to eliminating a program that would protect Black businesses from discrimination, it plans on changing the Minority Business Development Agency into something focused on \u201cthe benefit of free markets, the evils of socialism and Communism, and the destructive effect of taxes and regulations on minority businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Finishing The Wall<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project 2025’s agenda advises finishing Trump\u2019s <\/strong>wall along the U. S.-Mexico border. In addition, it encourages the next administration to \u201ctake a creative and aggressive approach\u201d to dealing with drug cartels at the border. The blueprint wants to employ active-duty military personnel and the National Guard for arrests at the southern border.<\/p>\n

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Reducing Black Home Ownership<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo:\u00a0Jim Morrison\u00a0(Getty Images)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black home ownership has always been low, but Project 2025 will do away with programs meant to increase it and end \u201cother uses of special-purpose credit authorities to further equity.\u201d Rental assistance programs would come to end as well.<\/p>\n

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Defunding Liberal Media<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project 2025 has intentions of defunding Public Broadcast System (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR) and grants for media entities that have \u201cmostly liberal\u201d audiences.<\/p>\n

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Getting Rid Of Racial Data<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The blueprint insists on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to cease collecting employment data based on race and ethnicity. In the document, they state it \u201ccan then be used to support a charge of discrimination under a disparate impact theory\u201d which could \u201clead to racial quotas.\u201d They want to stop this sort of data collection from both public and private employers.<\/p>\n

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Getting Rid Of Inflation Reduction Act<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project 2025 wants to get rid of the Inflation Reduction Act, which under Biden <\/strong>would have generated around 10 million climate-friendly jobs over the next decade. The agenda also calls for banning greenhouse gas regulations and clean energy programs. Low-income Black folks are exposed to pollution disproportionately and die at higher rates from it.<\/p>\n

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Dismantling Department Of Homeland Security<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to Project 2025, several offices would be cut from the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which would shut down the biggest school in the country for federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement officers. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) would also be eliminated from DHS, which was created to protect the United States after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

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Getting Rid Of Medicare\/Social Security<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo:\u00a0Jeffrey Greenberg\u00a0(Getty Images)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project 2025 will repeal \u201chealth policies enacted under the Obama<\/strong> and Biden <\/strong>Administrations such as the Medicare Shared Savings Program and Inflation Reduction Act.\u201d These vital policies are assisting millions of Americans afford their health insurance and prescription drugs. The blueprint would also cut Medicaid funding in half as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0By Candace McDuffie (Published in \u2018The Root\u2019 on Friday) \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Heritage Foundation outlined a dangerous plan if Trump becomes President again. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project 2025, a 920-page policy document, was devised\u00a0by the conservative\u00a0Heritage Foundation and\u00a0outlines a far-right\u00a0Christian agenda for Donald Trump\u2019s second presidential term if he wins the election in November. The plan will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135649,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135639\/revisions\/135649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}