Ever since Donald Trump was elected, it's been abundantly clear that there's still a large and vocal portion of the United States that, despite the overwhelming evidence and our horrific national history, refuses to accept the ugly truth that racism is still a massive problem in this country. And it's a fire that the president seems hell-bent on dousing with gasoline every chance he gets. The latest item in this administration's ever-growing list of aggressions came last night, with The New York Times reporting that Trump's Department of Justice would sue colleges using affirmative action policies in their admissions process because the department has decided that they "discriminate" against white people.

Now, a certain type of white person loves to complain about the fact that affirmative action is taking away his or her college opportunities unfairly, but that argument is flimsy. For one thing, these people never acknowledge that the long-standing legacy admissions programs that most universities have are unfairly biased toward white people, whose families have had access to the schools longer. In fact, legacy admissions programs were literally put in place to keep poorly performing white Protestants in universities after their spots were threatened by well-performing Jewish and Catholic applicants from "lesser" backgrounds. This biased system has been around at many universities for over a century, and even though it's designed to help the privileged get opportunities they don't deserve, it is under no real threat of leaving us anytime soon.

Meanwhile, affirmative action is a policy that, while it has its flaws, is designed to give a leg up to the people who have been disadvantaged by systematic and institutional racism. But here's the thing: People's outrage over affirmative action is almost always the result of convenient scapegoating. If everyone who claimed that they didn't get into a school due to affirmative action actually didn't get into a school for that reason, then you'd think our universities would mostly be made up of people of color, but we all know that's not the case. It's just easier for disappointed kids or parents to blame the specter of affirmative action than it is for them to accept that maybe they just didn't quite make the grade—despite the fact that, systematically speaking, a white student has enjoyed far more racial privilege than the black kid who is getting slightly preferential treatment this one time.

The worst and most insulting part of this leaked document coming out of the Justice Department? From the Times:

The announcement suggests that the project will be run out of the division’s front office, where the Trump administration’s political appointees work, rather than its Educational Opportunities Section, which is run by career civil servants and normally handles work involving schools and universities.

First they're stripping away LGBT workers' rights, and now this. Even if he's on the out, Jeff Sessions is smearing his bigoted fingerprints everywhere he can.

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