Overview
- In a New York Times interview, President Trump said civil-rights-era measures led to white people being “very badly treated,” describing the outcome as “reverse discrimination.”
- He cited college admissions as an example, asserting that qualified white applicants were denied entry even as he acknowledged the era achieved “very wonderful things.”
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s acting chair, Andrea Lucas, recently urged white men who believe they faced bias at work to contact the agency, emphasizing enforcement “including against white male applicants and employees.”
- The Justice Department last month announced a final rule revising Title VI regulations to eliminate disparate-impact liability, a move officials said restores equal treatment standards and critics view as weakening key civil-rights tools.
- Civil-rights leaders, including NAACP president Derrick Johnson, rejected Trump’s premise, saying there is no evidence the Civil Rights Movement or its laws discriminated against white men.