On 21 January, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” In short, it orders the executive branch and its agencies to enforce existing civil rights law by terminating all discriminatory DEI-associated policies and procedures, and combatting the same in the private sector.
The order notes that while federal law since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is meant to protect Americans from discrimination based on categories including race and sex, today many public and private institutions, including the federal government, corporations, financial institutions, higher education, and others, violate the text and spirit of the law with race- and sex-based preferences under “diversity, equity, and inclusion (and accessibility)” (DEI or DEIA) programs.
The White Civil Advocacy Project supports the active removal of DEI programs in the public and private sector, as the result of these programs has historically been discrimination against and the denial of opportunity to White Americans.
These are welcome developments; however, much more is needed. We urge lawmakers to pass legislation explicitly extending the protections of the Civil Rights Act to White Americans, in order to prevent it and related law from being abused in the same way in the future.
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