Trump seeks to reverse the policies that erased past racism

In the Trump administration, Black is white, and white is Black. Really.

For six decades, it has been bipartisan national policy to erase the vestiges of racism with policies and practices better reflecting the country’s current diversity.

But President Donald Trump has not only reversed that policy and punished some who pursued it, but has also sought to eliminate historic references to those efforts and remove prominent minority officials from top posts.

His rationale is that civil rights policies designed to overcome past wrongs to Americans of color in fact give them an unfair advantage over the white majority. It flouts the educational and economic inequities many minority Americans still face.

By seeking to implement a revised interpretation of the civil rights laws, his administ