The Convenience of Colorblindness

How Project 2025 will turn back the clock on race.

Jeffrey Kass
Equality Includes You
4 min readAug 2, 2024

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Fictional Project 2025 time machine to turn back the clock on racism
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Admittedly, I’m only on page 375 of the almost 900-page Project 2025 manifesto. I’ve skipped to a few other parts as well, but most of it’s a long, painful read.

At the 10,000-foot level, Project 2025 talks about strengthening American families, cutting government red tape, supporting more individual liberty and securing our borders.

All stuff most people would sign on to. That is until you read the details of what all that means and how they intend to accomplish it.

One of those details is a not-so-thinly veiled plan to destroy Black America.

I could write about how this far right-wing plan, developed by Trump’s closest allies, including people who will serve in his administration if he wins, argues that funding PBS is awful, or how it wants to bring back long-ago-outlawed child labor so long as parents approve, or how it advocates ending free public access to weather reports, including tornado alerts.

That’s small stuff, though, compared to how the plan would turn back the clock on racial progress.

For clarity, not how it will put the brakes on racial progress. But actually reverse it.

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Jeffrey Kass
Equality Includes You

A Medium Top Writer on Racism, Diversity, Education, History and Parenting | Speaker | Award-Winning Author | Latest Book: Black Batwoman V. White Jesus | Dad