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Rhiannon12866

(246,107 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:15 AM Oct 13

Trump Admin Openly Pushes For Resegregation In Latest Ban Reversal - Democracy Watch



The Trump administration is removing the ban on segregated facilities. Dr. Rashad Richey and Wosny Lambre discuss on Indisputable. Tell us what you think in the comments below.

Read more here: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump

"After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.

The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies. The memo explains that it is making changes prompted by Trump's executive order on diversity, equity and inclusion, which repealed an executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 regarding federal contractors and nondiscrimination. The memo also addresses Trump's executive order on gender identity." - 10/13/2025.

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Trump Admin Openly Pushes For Resegregation In Latest Ban Reversal - Democracy Watch (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 13 OP
I have a question, for people labeled "colored." raging moderate Oct 13 #1
O dear God some_of_us_are_sane Oct 13 #2
it took 1/2 century to get this far rampartd Oct 13 #4
It's a 'shitshow now'.... some_of_us_are_sane Oct 13 #6
i'm kinda hoping for an internal power struggle if trump ever dies. rampartd Oct 13 #8
I agree, rampartd some_of_us_are_sane Oct 13 #9
Remind me what year we're in? vapor2 Oct 13 #26
provision was flagged because it was revised under the Obama administration to include "gender identity." BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 13 #3
they have a list, and trans/gay people are on it rampartd Oct 13 #5
Oh? I can't wait until the mandatory blood/DNA tests go into effect. ... littlemissmartypants Oct 13 #7
Good Grief! We learned all about the Civil Rights Movement in 9th grade history Rhiannon12866 Oct 13 #13
I would like to think that American society Mblaze Oct 13 #10
Well, women ,in general,have been considered a "color" for a long time.. BattleRow Oct 13 #12
The only segregation I want The Madcap Oct 13 #11
Fucking try it and see what happens WhatTheFlux Oct 13 #14
THIS orangecrush Oct 13 #19
Absolutely sickening! Fuck these evil motherfuckers LymphocyteLover Oct 13 #15
If anyone opens up a segregated restaurant in this day & age KS Toronado Oct 13 #16
I would certainly do the same, my friend! Rhiannon12866 Oct 13 #25
I grew up with white people. Now I live where there are many nationalities. Neighbors have been twodogsbarking Oct 13 #17
WTF orangecrush Oct 13 #18
And scotus is about to kill the voting rights act. Kablooie Oct 13 #20
I kind of wonder why it took them so long rurallib Oct 13 #21
They waited til they "owned it all". calimary Oct 13 #22
Does this mean that Clarence Thomas will have to divorce his wife at some point? Any lawsuit must force the USSC to in2herbs Oct 13 #23
Good Point, in2herbs! some_of_us_are_sane Oct 14 #27
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 Jimvanhise Oct 13 #24

raging moderate

(4,596 posts)
1. I have a question, for people labeled "colored."
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:39 AM
Oct 13

As the descendant of Abolitionists on both sides, I want to support Equal Rights. Family members on both sides married Native American ladies soon after arrival in North America, and some of my great-grandparents had Black houseguests in their little houses a few times (and, with NO servants, they waited on those Black people themselves and were proud to do so). Some great-grandparents immigrated from Denmark; I was born with pale freckled skin, blue eyes, and red hair. It has been obvious to me all my life that I AM NOT WHITE. My skin is a pinkish shade of beige. NOBODY IS REALLY WHITE. Calling ourselves white is an obvious delusion. Furthermore, my son has recently married a "non-white" "colored" lady born in South Korea. So I have a "colored" daughter-in-law, and someday I will have one or two "non-white" "colored" grandchildren. If I come someday to a place with restrooms for either "white" or "colored" people, will it offend any "colored" people if I use the "colored" restroom? As far as I'm concerned, I'm a color, too. And I can't stand those racist "white" supremacists.

rampartd

(2,815 posts)
4. it took 1/2 century to get this far
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:09 AM
Oct 13

IF we can get rid of these people (i mean that only in the nicest way), it may take a century to get back to the imperfect status quo 2008

what are their plans for us? they are giving us options.

1. voluntary deportation/ expatriation (passports are not being issued in the shut down )
2. deportation
3. defacto slavery in privatized agribusiness/prison complex
4. tightly policed urban ghettos , homelessness etc etc. etc..

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,425 posts)
6. It's a 'shitshow now'....
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:35 AM
Oct 13

and it will be a 'shitshow' once he's gone, BUT..................however long it takes.........it will be active REVERSING of what this MORON and his minions have done to this country.

rampartd

(2,815 posts)
8. i'm kinda hoping for an internal power struggle if trump ever dies.
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:46 AM
Oct 13

notice a few internal knives out already (who dropped the homan video?)


whichever of his "best people" wins that, we lose, but at least neither jd nor don jr has krasnov's mutant power to corrupt everything he touches.

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(11,943 posts)
3. provision was flagged because it was revised under the Obama administration to include "gender identity."
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 10:46 AM
Oct 13

Kara Sacilotto, an attorney at the Wiley law firm in Washington, D.C., which specializes in federal contracts, speculates that the provision was flagged because it was revised under the Obama administration to include "gender identity." That change was made, she says, "to implement an Obama era Executive Order 13672, and that executive order from the Obama administration is one of the ones that President Trump, in his second term, rescinded," she explains. "And so, along with [Trump's] other executive orders about gender identification, I would suspect that is the reason why this one got identified on the list."

rampartd

(2,815 posts)
5. they have a list, and trans/gay people are on it
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:25 AM
Oct 13

they can easily work down the list and get to woke liberal antifa terrorists by the mid terms.

if elections occur in 2026 they will achieve a supermajority and finish their project

my preferred future would be a great victory in 2026 and begin the impeachments.

can we get there? o am not optimistic. the worst candidate in history beat us twice and outplayed the hell out of us in his interregnum. ,

littlemissmartypants

(30,754 posts)
7. Oh? I can't wait until the mandatory blood/DNA tests go into effect. ...
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 11:44 AM
Oct 13

Where do I sign up for my microchip tracker and number tat? Assuming that I might be kept around for some purpose.

I'm more likely to be murdered or sent to a foreign country that the regime has negotiated with on a cash for warm bodies exchange. Then I'll be murdered or die inside a foreign prison. That is if my suicide plan fails.



Only half joking about the last part. I'm too old for this sh¡t.

Love you, Rhi. ❤️

Rhiannon12866

(246,107 posts)
13. Good Grief! We learned all about the Civil Rights Movement in 9th grade history
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:20 PM
Oct 13

And then I watched "Eyes on the Prize" which was certainly disturbing. I grew up in a fairly diverse community and no one ever mentioned skin color or heritage, not my parents, my grandmother or my teachers. Everyone was different, anyway, we weren't black or white like chess pieces.

And when I had just turned 8, I went to Florida with my aunt, uncle and closest cousin to spend Easter vacation with my grandmother who was spending the winter there and my uncle stopped at a car wash in Georgia. The older couple who ran it was friendly to us kids, little blonde girls, gave us each a pen with the name of the car wash on it. But then I spotted the rest rooms - there was a pink door that said "Ladies," a blue door that said "Men," and a yellow door that said "Colored!" Obviously I'd never seen anything like that in my life, so I started to ask my aunt what that meant, but I could tell from her expression that I needed to shut up. And I never brought it up again. The South in the early '60s.

So is this something we want to go back to, have we made so little progress?? Did MLK Jr. sacrifice his life for nothing?? We know that TFG is a nasty bigot, but he has no right to turn back the clock to that awful time when I was 8.

Mblaze

(862 posts)
10. I would like to think that American society
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:05 PM
Oct 13

Has advanced beyond Trump's attempts to bring back Jim Crow.

BattleRow

(2,005 posts)
12. Well, women ,in general,have been considered a "color" for a long time..
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:10 PM
Oct 13

All over the world.

KS Toronado

(21,813 posts)
16. If anyone opens up a segregated restaurant in this day & age
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:37 PM
Oct 13

As a white man I'll be sitting down in the "COLORED ONLY" section and I better get served.
Hoping all white people will do the same, first one will show up in tRump tower.

Rhiannon12866

(246,107 posts)
25. I would certainly do the same, my friend!
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 08:08 PM
Oct 13

This is insane, turning back the clock to those times when so many fought and died - only to satisfy TFG's blatant bigotry.

twodogsbarking

(16,474 posts)
17. I grew up with white people. Now I live where there are many nationalities. Neighbors have been
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:38 PM
Oct 13

Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Indian, Pakastan, African American, Other Europeans, Latino. All these have lived in ten houses over 37 years. Vanilla too. It is really a pleasure to have had them. We are all alike, just different customs and heritage.

Kablooie

(19,003 posts)
20. And scotus is about to kill the voting rights act.
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 12:48 PM
Oct 13

Because it discriminates against whites.
Maybe minstrel shows will come back in fashion.

calimary

(88,348 posts)
22. They waited til they "owned it all".
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 01:07 PM
Oct 13

House. Senate. And the Oval Office.

I am VERY eager to see that “trifecta” undone.

in2herbs

(4,022 posts)
23. Does this mean that Clarence Thomas will have to divorce his wife at some point? Any lawsuit must force the USSC to
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 01:14 PM
Oct 13

limit f45s power or throw it out entirely. Thomas's position will be interesting.

NOTE: This EO must be thrown out PERIOD.

Jimvanhise

(537 posts)
24. THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
Mon Oct 13, 2025, 04:22 PM
Oct 13

Trump is prohibited from violating the Civil Rights Act no matter that he believes a president can do anything especially when it is related to government actions. He can try to make America white again as much as he wants but it won't work.

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