‘A commitment to keeping discrimination intact’: Scholars react to Trump’s fight against equity

Just days before Juneteenth, the Trump Administration moved to try and block a first-of-its-kind reparations program for Black Americans in Evanston, IL. “Not only is there extreme difficulty in remedying discrimination, there is a commitment to keeping discrimination intact,” said Imani Perry, professor at Harvard University. The U.S. has a history of providing reparations for various ethnic groups, says Georgetown Law professor Dorothy Brown – just not for Black Americans. “Reparations is as American as apple pie…so is anti-Black discrimination.”

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