2025, is the situation of Persons of Color better ?

Since January and the election of Donald J. Trump, African-American and immigrants’ rights have been threatened. Indeed, since the official end of segregation in 1964, Persons of Color are still discriminated against in America, even today. The movement Black Lives Matter proves this: African-American do not feel welcomed in their own country. According to the Washington Post, 22% of the people killed by the police in the United States were Black whereas the community represents 13% of the population. Legally those murders are legal because of the Fourth Amendment that permits police to use deadly force when there is “an imminent threat of serious bodily harm or death to themselves or others”.

What’s more, supremacist groups are expanding as the international political field is becoming more extreme every single day. Indeed, according to the New York Times, flash demonstrations are happening every week in some cities where neo-Nazis or fascist groups are extremely active. They are organised to create fear and anxiety for multiple communities like Person of Color or even the LGBTQIA+ community. In 2022, there were more than 6,700 incidents. Today, with the withdrawal of rights for POC and the restriction of certain terms in the official vocabulary such as “anti-racism”. Indeed, still according to the NYT, “woke” words are disappearing from the Trump Administration: “activism”, “Black”, “ethnicity”, “multicultural” or even “Native American”. Considering his declarations while running for the presidency, such as “They [immigrants] are eating cats and dogs”, Donald J. Trump is only at the beginning of what he counts on doing. Today, POC and immigrants’ rights are threatened by the federal government itself.

These changes are orchestrated in order to complete Project 2025, a policy developed by conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation. For example, Executive Order 14173 removed key anti-discrimination clauses. Hence, today, any POC can be discriminated against at work and be compelled to accomplish some tasks or even be a candidate for a job. Moreover, in education, the administration is refusing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, threatening to withdraw federal funding from schools that support such initiatives. Civil rights groups argue these actions disproportionately harm Black, Latino, and LGBTQIA+ communities, and could reverse decades of progress toward racial equity. Indeed, the situation is, day to day, getting worse for Black persons and POCs in general. In some ways, the current rollback of the rights not only threatens that hard-earned progress: it represents a return to policies that are even more explicitly hostile to marginalized communities. The fight for equality, once thought to be won, is proving more fragile than ever...