Thread by @michaelharriot

Although there have been discussions & articles about Project 2025, VERY FEW focus specifically on Trump's plans for Black Americans

That's why I read all 922 pages of #Project2025 as well as #Agenda47

Here are the top 10 things I found:

A thread:

thegrio.com/2024/07/15/i-r…

First of all, when Trump said he had nothing to do with Project 2025, he wasn't lying.

Technically, it was written by 200+ pro-Trump policy "experts," many of whom served in the Trump administration. Trump's official plan is called "Agenda47."

Think of it this way:

Project 2025 is the MAGA employee manual for people who will work in the Trump Administration.

Agenda47 is a campaign document (Well, a series of videos). It's essentially a Cliff's Notes version of Project 2025 on YouTube for MAGAs who don't like all that reading BS.

Project 2025 is broken down by departments of the federal government.

Agenda 47 is broken down into 46 separate topics (I know... He's bad at counting). But they're basically the same ideas.

Let's start with the entire premise of Trump's plan.

10: Make Government White Again:

If you recall, many of Trump's biggest ideas were foiled by government workers. The OMB used a "woke" idea called "math" to tell him how much a border wall would cost. A whistleblower exposed the "perfect" phone call that got Trump impeached. Project 2025 has a solution.

The entire premise of Project 2025 is to fill the federal government with employees who are loyal to Trump.

How will they do that?

They want to replace "nonpartisan career government experts" with MAGAmuffins. What does this have to do with Black people?

Well, senior-level govt workers are disproportionately white, but Black workers (who generally aren't conservative) are overrepresented in the civilian federal workforce.

This is the "swamp" Project 2025 wants to drain.

Agenda47 calls it the "Dismantling the deep state"

9. They will fight racism...Against whites:

Project 2025 is filled with examples of how white people are oppressed. They can't get minority business loans. Even the military is getting less white.

They're going to fight the woke agenda by eliminating these anti-white programs

8. Fight anti-Black racism

They do have a plan to fight white supremacy.

Hide it.

Project 2025 will end the practice of collecting data that shows racial disparities in government, education and those "Black jobs."

Their plan is to literally "stop talking about race."

7. Get tough on Black crime, go easy on white cops.

They plan to end EVERY CONSENT DECREE filed against corrupt police agencies, undo bail reform, bring back "stop and frisk" & use the death penalty "when possible" - ESPECIALLY for drug dealers

Can you hear the dog whistles?

The Trump DOJ will reexamine whether categorizing white supremacist groups as "domestic terrorists" violates free speech rights. They will also stop the DOJ from investigating "disinformation," voter suppression and intimidation. Instead, they'll focus on "voter fraud"

6. Make Jesus white again

Project 2025 is rife with Christian nationalism. Its policies on abortion, education and gender are based on what they call America's "Judeo-Christian tradition"

They will give taxpayer education funds to predominately white K-12 schools and colleges.

Project 2025 would force organizations to accredit fundamentalist Christian schools, allow businesses to discriminate based on "religious freedom," and force all government programs to adhere to a definition of marriage, sex and gender that is approved by Caucasian Christ.

Especially abortion

Republicans aren't lying when they said they won't pass a nationwide abortion ban. If Project 2025 became law, they won't have to. Not only would it repeal FDA approval for abortion drugs & sue states that require employers to cover abortions...

They would rescind federal funds from any company, contractor or healthcare institution that provides LEGAL abortions.

If that's not enough, then there's one more part:

The Dept. of Health and Human Services would no longer consider abortion to be "health care."

5. Welfare for whites; poverty for Blacks.

To finance give government handouts to predominately white private schools ("school choice"), rural white businesses ("farm subsidies"), & white suburban homeowners, they had to cut a few programs that benefit Black people.

75% of white people own homes. Black homeownership has NEVER reached 50%. Still, they want to cut programs for rental assistance, minority homebuyers, low-income housing, school lunch & student loans

They will rescind the executive order against biased real estate appraisers

4. Make Black schools worse

Project 2025 will cut funding for the poorest schools, defund schools that use their definition of DEI or CRT, & cut funding for colleges that teach Black studies, Gender studies or any of the "area studies."

Instead, they'll promote capitalism

3. Make America racist again

They would repeal nearly every federal regulation and eliminate every department that prevents discrimination, including most agencies' civil rights divisions. They'd literally erase the word "equity" from the federal government

2. The quiet part, loudly.

Project 2025 protects right-wing extremism, election deniers, Christian nationalism, and Elon Musk's conspiracy theories by classifying accountability, equity or fairness as "wokeness," "cancel culture" & a "Marxist" threat to free speech

1. Forget about Trump

The most disturbing part of Project 2025 is that it is NOT a Trump Plan; it is a CONSERVATIVE plan. Many of the Project 2025 appointees can be installed by a GOP Senate. The House controls the country's purse strings, and A GOP-majority in the House...

enact the program in these plans WITHOUT Trump. And because it embeds MAGA workers in the gov't, it could be GENERATIONS before we infestation a MAGA infesteation of the federal government.

It's not about JUST about your presidential vote; it's about voting on every level.

And I read it so you won't have to:

thegrio.com/2024/07/15/i-r…