Legal analysis released by Legal Defense Fund highlights specific harms rightwing plan poses to Black communities

Legal analysis released by Legal Defense Fund highlights specific harms rightwing plan poses to Black communities

Project 2025, the 900-page ultra-conservative roadmap that details how the former president Donald Trump and his allies would restructure the US government if he is elected, has specific implications for Black Americans, according to a new report.

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), an organization that fights for racial justice, recently released the most in-depth legal analysis of Project 2025’s impact on Black communities. It highlights how Black Americans would be harmed due to policies that would weaken anti-discrimination laws; dismantle the Department of Education; threaten Black political power; increase the use of the death penalty (which disproportionately affects Black people); and exacerbate health disparities caused by environmental racism.

Karla McKanders, the director of the LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute (TMI), the in-house research thinktank that produced the report, said she wanted people to understand the “larger impact that Project 2025 will have on our democracy and undermining our democracy”.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago
    • It would upend the lives of white women.
    • It would upend the lives of Latino people.
    • It would upend the lives of poor men, women and children of all races.
    • It would upend the lives of the middle-class.
    • It would upend the lives of non-binary gender people.
    • It would upend the lives of people who care for nature.

    Need I go on? You’re really only safe from Project 2025 if you’re very well-to-do, or don’t live in the USA, or give no shits about what happens to it.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      6 days ago

      Even if you don’t live in the USA, the fuckery that project2025 proposes will also impact you.

      They intend to replace competent government officials with hand picked loyalists. That will absolutely have a negative impact on American foreign policy.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        13·
        6 days ago

        You’re absolutely right. In Canada we definitely aren’t safe, and of course there are foreign policy ramifications everywhere. I’m just saying that you have to be outside the US for there to be a chance for the effects to not be life-upending.

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 days ago

        Plus all the trade shenanigans (though that might just be Trump spitballing, not project 2025, I can’t keep track anymore)will have wild effects

    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
      15·
      6 days ago

      Yall don’t realize, conservatives and Neo-Liberals have been testing out how to oppress everyone else on the black community since the end of slavery. Want to know what’s going to happen to everyone else, just drive down to the poor black/minorities neighborhood and ask. Yes they are coming for everyone, but the bus doesn’t roll over everyone at once. Protecting the most marginalized communities first is how you protect everyone. Remember, first they came for the…