Presidentās targeting of Fed governor Lisa Cook highlights his efforts to remove diverse voices from government
A day after Donald Trump announced that he was firing Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, the White House proudly released a photo. It showed Trump, his cabinet and other officials giving a thumbs-up. Of the 24 people in the Oval Office, only one was Black.
For those who have studied the US presidentās long and troubling history of racism, the two events were more than mere coincidence. They were indicative of a man who has recently brought white nationalist perspectives from the margins back to the mainstream.
Trump has vehemently denied that he is a racist, pointing to a modest increase in support among African American voters in last yearās election, when his opponent was a Black woman. But critics suggest that his effort to oust Cook fits a pattern of purging diverse voices from the higher ranks of leadership.
imo you are forgetting one thing, the whole āpositive discriminationā concept, as a precursor to āDEIā, was a BIG catalyst that started to make people feel they are being treated unfairly.
Slowly but with solid force people who worked/studied hard, were skipped for positions or possibilities in favor of someone with lesser degrees, and often (not always) the ones suffering under it never fully saw it as a race/skin color issue, it was just unfair.
People sucked up that disgruntlement for years, and along comes a bloated guy with a movement that makes clear those years will be rolled back. Some of them seem to even expect to now get that one job they missed out on 6 years ago handed to them, ignoring ofcourse how the scales now tipped to the other side where it will be āfriends or buy-ins onlyā.