Washington (AP) – One of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation on Thursday declared an “state of emergency” for anti -discrimination policy, personal freedoms and black economic development as a reaction to President Donald Trump’s upward population of precedent in civil rights and the federal authorities, which traditionally be enforced by enforcing the enforcement of the task.
The report on the annual report of the National Urban League accuses the Federal Government to “be increasingly determined to sacrifice its founding principles” and “threatens to force a uniform educational system and a homogeneous workforce that emerges according to a copy gained by the associated press.
“If it stays deactivated,” the authors write, “risk reversing decades of progress that have made America more dynamic, competitive and just.”
Report criticizes racism that enters the mainstream of American politics
The report, which is published on Thursday at the group of the group in Cleveland, Ohio, criticizes the administration to reduce federal authorities and programs that enforce the civil rights guidelines. The authors wanted to emphasize what she saw as a multi -year coordinated efforts of conservative legal activists, legislators and media personalities in order to undermine civil rights policy and to create a political landscape that would enable a difficult -working agenda for a number of social and economic politics.
“It is not accidental. It is a well -financed, well -organized, well -organized movement of many years,” said Marc Morial, President of Urban League. “For a long time, people saw the white supremacist policy and white nationalism as on the edge of American politics. It has now become the mainstream of American law, the central foundation of which is within the Republican Party.”
The report directly criticizes the 2025 project, a comprehensive blueprint for the conservative government, which is coordinated by the Heritage Foundation Think Tank. Project 2025 advised approaches to layoffs of the federal employee, the enforcement of immigration as well as the congress and legislative branches similar to the current strategy of the Trump management.
The Urban League report condemns immense companies, universities and top law firms for the reversal of the politics of diversity, equity and inclusion. It also criticizes social media companies such as Meta and X for the alleged “censorship” of black activists and creatives and guidelines for the moderation of content that allegedly “extremists” possible to spread “radicalization” views.
Debates on civil rights enter the center of the political struggle
The Trump administration said that many guidelines carried out by democratic and republican administrations are discriminatory and unconstitutional, which argues that recognitions of the breed as well as federal and corporate policy, which concern the differences between different demographies, are themselves discriminatory. Trump has signed Executive Orders in which “illegal discrimination” is prohibited and “merit -based opportunities” are promoted.
Harrison Fields, a spokesman for the White House, said that civil rights groups that oppose the administration “demand nothing more than hatred and division, while the president focuses on combining our country.”
Meanwhile, the report requires the creation of a “new resistance” to counteract the administration’s agenda. Morial asked other organizations to gather this matter.
The Urban League and other civil rights groups have repeatedly sued Trump administration since January. Liberal legal groups and democratic legislators, in a similar way, sued parts of the government’s agenda.
Veteran civil rights activists, black citizens, former federal official, Attorney General of Illinois, Kwame Raoul, and seven members of the congress, including the house minority manager Hakeem Jeffries, contributed to the text.
Raoul said that civil rights allies have felt “about defense” in recent years, but now “it’s time to act positively”. For example, if the DEI guidelines of the DEI guidelines could lead to discrimination against women or people with legal steps, he warned.
“It all depends on how they do it. We’ll watch,” he said. “And just because the Trump government no longer believes in different effects does not mean that the rest of the universe must believe.”
The report criticizes the efforts of the Trump administration to conclude the educational department and condemns changes to programs that should support the color communities in the departments for trade, health and human services and housing and urban development. The transformation of the Scivil Rights Division of the Ministry of Justice was recognized as a “existential threat to enforce civil rights”.
The Ministry of Justice referred to its published civil rights policy and a social media post from its civil rights with the inscription “The Department” to force the law as written: fair, equally and without political agenda.
Steve Horsford, a member of Nevada, said that Trump “betrayed” the American people to create plans he said, similar to the project in 2025.
The legislature reflects the long struggle for civil rights
Another participant, MP Yvette Clarke, Chairman of the Black Caucus of the Congress, said that civil rights lawyers and their democratic allies have to do more to communicate and clarify with people.
“If you have an administration that is willing to achieve civil rights gains and call the opposite racism, there is a lot of work to unpack it for people,” said the New York Democrat. “I think if people understand their connection to civil rights profits, we will be able to build this swing.”
The Urban League originally intended to concentrate its report on the legacy of the Voting Rights Act from 1965 for the 60th anniversary of the law.
For many experienced civil rights activists, the changes to the administration can be condemned, but not surprising. Some legislators see it as a duty to continue the long struggle for civil rights.
“I think it’s all part of the same fight,” said Rep. Shomari Figures, an Alabama Democrat who contributed to the report and whose father successfully brought a false death against a branch of the Ku Klux Klan. “At the end of the day this fight runs: Can I be treated like everyone else in this country?”
