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Greetings Friends:
Imagine a world in which a deadly virus disproportionately kills people of color, yet efforts to address documented race disparities in health care are banned...
A world in which medical practitioners and researchers are no longer permitted to learn about the implicit biases that contribute to these deadly outcomes...
A world in which the history of housing segregation and its current role in grounding massive wealth disparities cannot be acknowledged as structural racism...
A world in which colleges and universities that have produced some of the very tools that are used to identify patterns of race and gender inequality suddenly agree that such tools cannot be used in their own institutions...
A world in which hate speech is protected but anti-racist ideas are banned and deemed un-American...
A world in which the very capacity to name social injustice is taken away and replaced by a whitewashed vision of American history as the only story that can be legitimately and safely told...
If this sounds like a nightmare, then I urge you to wake up to our current reality.
Join me tonight, December 2nd, at 8 PM EDT (5 PM PDT) to learn about this grave threat to our civil rights and civil liberties from leading thinkers and activists on the frontlines of fighting back: Carol Anderson, Rachel Godsil, Laura Gomez, Charles Lawrence, Janai Nelson, and Lisa Rice. The episode, titled “#TruthBeTold: The Destructiveness of Trump's Equity Gag Order & What Biden Must Do Now,” will elevate Trump’s ongoing effort to snuff out the racial reckoning that has changed the national conversation about race, and how his Executive Order uploads an alt-right fringe view into national policy. The ban rehearses past efforts to suppress liberation by gagging and punishing those who promote equitable practices throughout our society.
This authoritarian suppression will continue to cast a shadow over our future until it is rescinded and its damages are repaired. That won’t happen unless we understand the threat and organize to meet it.
If we can’t be heard, we can’t make change. And that’s the point of the Gag Order. Everyone who cares about fairness and equity has to show up and show out.
You can read more about the panelists, and RSVP, here.
In solidarity,
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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The Destructiveness of Trump's Equity Gag Order and What Biden Must Do Now
December 2, 2020
Streamed live 6 hours ago
African American Policy Forum
AAPF
Hosted and moderated by Kimberle Crenshaw
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How did President Trump take a fringe ideology and put it at the center of federal policymaking? How has Trump’s mainstreaming of alt-right ideas and tactics impeded critical work being done to advance the causes of racial justice and gender equity? What must President-elect Biden do to fight back against the right’s censorship of social justice? All of these questions and more will be discussed on this week’s episode of #UnderTheBlacklight.
This episode of #UnderTheBlacklight will focus on our recently-released #TruthBeTold Report. This timely report examines the Equity Gag Order promulgated by the Trump administration that prohibits federal agencies and federal contractors from conducting diversity trainings and equity programming that touch on topics such as intersectionality, structural racism, and implicit bias.
On this episode, AAPF Executive Director Kimberlé Crenshaw will be joined by Carol Anderson, Rachel Godsil, Laura Gomez, Charles Lawrence, Janai Nelson, and Lisa Rice will discuss not only the impact of the Equity Gag Order but also explore the historical antecedents of the current white supremacist backlash, the contemporary resistance to it, and its crucial implications for our future.
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