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In response to former US President Donald Trump’s vow to confront “anti-white sentiment,” his aides are developing policy plans for his return to office, with a focus on eliminating racial discrimination and promoting diversity. The movement to abolish various government and corporate programs is likely to accelerate. Photo shows Trump supporters at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, in April (2024 /Brian Snyder)

[ワシントン ４日 ロイター] – In response to former US President Donald Trump’s vow to confront “anti-white sentiment,” his aides are formulating policy plans for his return to office, with a focus on eliminating racial discrimination and promoting diversity. The movement to eliminate various government and corporate programs is likely to accelerate.

Some influential aides have publicly said that policies meant to protect people of color in classrooms, workplaces and charities should be repurposed to protect the rights of white people as well.

In an interview published by Time magazine on April 30, Trump said, “I think there is a deep anti-white sentiment in this country. “It’s becoming unfair,” he said.

In the interview, Trump did not specify what specific anti-white bias or policies he had. However, his campaign’s website listed multiple measures to combat anti-white sentiment, and several aides proposed details of policies he would implement during a “second term in office.”

One proposal is for federal agencies to assess whether underserved communities, such as people of color, LGBTQ people, and rural residents, have adequate access to public programs. This is a reversal of President Biden’s order requiring verification.

On the campaign trail, Trump also vowed to defund schools that teach racial issues based on the premise that racial bias permeates American institutions.

Lynn Patton, a Trump campaign adviser, told a conservative journalist that if Trump were to return, he would hire people based on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles. The government has announced that it will deny federal funding to schools and businesses that are affected.

Gene Hamilton, a Trump aide, also told that the Justice Department’s civil rights division needs to establish a clear path to ensuring that the programs companies put in place to promote diversity in the workplace do not themselves become discriminatory. I argued that it would not.

Hamilton cited Section 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which comprehensively prohibits employment discrimination, including on the basis of race, religion, and sex.

Hamilton, who worked at the Justice Department during the former Trump administration, said Section 7 should also protect white people, and that recruitment programs aimed at increasing the number of people of color in the workplace excluded applications from white people. They are complaining that this should not happen.

Hamilton wrote his thoughts in a policy document published by Project 2025, a coalition of pro-Trump think tanks. The program violates the fundamental ideas on which America was founded.”

Although the Trump campaign itself is not directly participating in this policy drafting process, many close aides are.

Meanwhile, official allegations of anti-white discrimination in the workplace appear to be far fewer. For example, the proportion of complaints filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an independent government agency, from white people is extremely small.

Still, more than half of Trump’s supporters believe that white Americans are discriminated against. A /Ipsos poll released in March also found that about 53% of Trump supporters said they believed white people were discriminated against because of their skin color. Only 14% of Biden supporters said so.

One of the proposed Project 2025 policies, co-authored by conservative economist and Trump adviser Stephen Moore, would require the Treasury Department to lay off employees who actively participate in DEI programs. Some people think that we should seek it.

However, adviser Patton emphasized, “In his second term, Trump will improve the status of all Americans, regardless of race or religion.”

In response, Biden’s campaign warned that Trump’s policies, which he referred to as “confronting anti-white sentiment,” would make life harder for communities of color. A spokesperson said: “If Trump wins the presidential election in November, he will translate his racist history into official policy and seek to water down programs that provide opportunities for communities of color.” He has made his stance clear.”

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Washington-based correspondent covering campaigns and Congress. Previously posted in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Santiago, Chile, and has reported extensively throughout Latin America. Co-winner of the 2021 Journalist of the Year Award in the business coverage category for a series on corruption and fraud in the oil industry. He was born in Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College.