Trump blasts civil rights protections and says it resulted in white individuals being handled ‘very badly’ | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump mentioned that landmark civil rights protections ushered in through the Sixties have resulted in white individuals being handled “very badly.”

The president was interviewed by The New York Times final week and was requested whether or not he believed civil rights protections that started within the Sixties with the passage of the Civil Rights Act “resulted ultimately in the discrimination against white men.”

“Well, I think that a lot of people were very badly treated,” Trump replied. “White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a university or a college.”

“So I would say in that way, I think it was unfair in certain cases,” the president mentioned.

Trump added that the protections “accomplished some very wonderful things, but it also hurt a lot of people,” and claimed that “people that deserve to go to a college or deserve to get a job were unable to get a job.”

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“It was a reverse discrimination,” he mentioned.

Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights group, blasted Trump’s feedback in a press release to The Times.

Johnson mentioned there was “no evidence that white men were discriminated against as a result of the civil rights movement, the Civil Rights Act, and efforts to rectify the long history of this country denying access to people based on race in every measurable category.”

Trump’s remarks observe his administration’s fast dismantling of variety, fairness and inclusion places of work and because the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged white males to return ahead in the event that they imagine they’ve skilled discrimination at work.

The company, established below the Civil Rights Act of 1964, enforces federal anti-discrimination legal guidelines in hiring and within the office, the place employers are prohibited from discriminating in opposition to an applicant or worker on the premise of race, faith, intercourse, pores and skin colour, nationwide origin, age, incapacity or genetic info.

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Last month the company’s performing chair, Andrea Lucas, posted a video on social media asking: “Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?”

Lucas — a outstanding critic of variety, fairness and inclusion efforts — mentioned white males “may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws.”

“Contact EEOC as soon as possible,” she mentioned within the video. “EEOC is identifying, attacking and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination, including against white male applicants and employees.”

Vice President JD Vance held the same place on the matter in December, when he shared a hyperlink to an essay that claimed variety initiatives had disadvantaged white males of alternatives.

Vance referred to as variety insurance policies “a deliberate program of discrimination primarily against white men” in a publish on X. He claimed that by dismantling the initiatives, the Trump administration has “dedicated itself to eradicating racist discrimination.”