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Race Forward Rejects Trump's Efforts to Dismantle Progress
on Racial Equity in America
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Race Forward continues its commitment to
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advancing anti-racism training
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– despite the Trump Administration's attempt to eliminate anti-racist
work by banning dialogue, education, and trainings that address systemic
racism. The Executive Order (EO)
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issued on September 22, 2020, targets federal departments, contractors,
and grantees in an effort to silence meaningful conversations about race
that a majority of the American public believes are needed for greater
understanding and national unity.
Race Forward continues to advance its work through its Government
Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE)
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program, a network of more than 250 jurisdictions who are working to
advance racial equity and lift up outcomes for all groups. GARE members
are committed to conducting anti-racism trainings to help public sector
employees and the American people talk about and take action to address
systemic racism . These jurisdictions fall outside the EO so long as
they are not federal contractors and are conducting trainings
independent of federal funding. Communities seek the guidance of the
GARE network to enable their employees within public institutions to
discuss race in honest and truthful ways that can lead to changed
policies and practices, justice and reconciliation.
"These actions by the administration are an attack on racial justice,"
said Glenn Harris, President of Race Forward. " The overwhelming
majority of Americans believe that systemic racism and racial
discrimination are a major problem
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in this country. Even so, the Trump Administration is actively working
to shut down America's growing commitment toward ending racial injustice
and is simply denying that systemic racism is behind America's racial
inequities."
Collectively, supporters of racial equity training voice support for all
levels of government to address systemic racism and are calling on
philanthropy, the business community, nonprofit and professional
organizations across the country to explicitly address systemic racism,
and commit to the advancement of racial justice in America.
"The extreme hardships of 2020 — the COVID-19 pandemic, state violence
against the Black community, an environmental crisis and an economic
recession — are exposing the horrifying impact of racial inequities
between white people and people of color, said Julie Nelson, Senior Vice
President of Programs. "We recognize the devastating intergenerational
harms of systemic racism and know that we as a nation cannot have a
strong multiracial democracy without racial justice, and we cannot have
racial justice without a strong multiracial democracy."
Race Forward declares that the current administration's push for
education that erases our history
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is dangerously hostile toward people of color, an abuse of power, and an
attempt to silence and censor discussion of and reverse progress on race
equity in America. This comes on the heels of Trump calling on Americans
to proclaim Columbus Day as an official national holiday, despite Native
American's seeking to change the observation to Indigenous Peoples Day .
We must continue to build our collective power to counteract these and
similar measures. Join us at Facing Race: A National Virtual Conference
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from November 10-12, to take part in the largest multiracial,
inter-generational gathering for organizers, educators, creatives,
mobilizing, organizing, and convening in the fight for racial justice.
In solidarity,
The Race Forward Team
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