Black and Latino people are full human beings, not people to be denied the right even to live, gunned down by the police with impunity, incarcerated in genocidal numbers, and denied basic rights.

 

Indicted for White Supremacy, Police Brutality, and Mass Incarceration

What they have done:

• Attorney General Jeff Sessions told prosecutors to bring maximum charges and penalties for nonviolent drug offenders — reversing policies aimed at reducing them — when 2.3 million people, disproportionately Black and Latino, are incarcerated. Source
• An estimated 4,645 deaths in Puerto Rico have been linked to Hurricane Maria, largely due to Trump’s gross neglect. Hurricane Maria caused far greater damage than Hurricane Harvey which hit Texas weeks earlier. Yet, in the nine critical days following each hurricane, FEMA provided three times as many meals and more than 22 times as much individual assistance to Texas as it did to Puerto Rico. It took FEMA 10 days to approve permanent disaster work for Texas, compared with 43 days for Puerto Rico. Trump lashed out at Puerto Rican leaders as “politically motivated ingrates” and complained that the Puerto Rican people, “want everything done for them.” Source
• Sessions is moving to end consent decrees with cities aimed at addressing egregious racial profiling, brutality and murder by police. Source 1 Source 2
• After armed white supremacists and Nazis marched and murdered counter-protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, VA, Trump said “both sides” included “very fine people.” He lashed out at people fighting to remove Confederate monuments, saying, “They’re trying to take away our culture.” Source 1 Source 2
• Trump’s deregulation and budget cuts will disproportionately harm African Americans with attacks ranging from raising minimum rent in public housing by up to 300% (48% of residents are black) to delaying protection against dumping lead in waterways (11% of African American children have lead poisoning, compared to 2% of white children). Source 1 Source 2
• On the eve of his election, Trump insisted that the Central Park 5 “still belonged in prison,” years after they had been fully exonerated. In the 1990s Trump demanded the death penalty for these wrongly accused Black and Latino teenagers. Source
• Trump championed the racist “birther” conspiracy theory that depicted the first African-American president as illegitimate and never apologized. Source
• Speaking to an audience of police, Trump encouraged them to brutalize suspects, celebrating how suspects are frequently “thrown in, rough” into paddy wagons. He urged, “Please don’t be too nice.” Source
• As part of an orchestrated campaign to disenfranchise Black and Latino voters, Trump made unsubstantiated accusations of massive voter fraud in the 2016 election. His DOJ intervened to defend voter suppression including a Texas voter ID law and a purge of registered voters in Ohio. Source
• Under Betsy DeVos, the Department of Education ended investigations of civil rights abuses in public schools. Black students make up 15.5 % of public school students and nearly 40% of suspensions. Source
• Trump approved the Dakota Access Pipeline and is cutting Bears Ears Monument by 85%, threatening more than 100,000 Native American archeological and cultural sites, endangering water, and sabotaging treaty rights. Source 1 Source 2
• The FBI Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit invented a new category of threat, “Black Identity Extremist” which will target Black activists and movements for exposing and protesting racialized police violence. Source

What they said they will do:

• Trump declared he will end the Affordable Care Act, which would result in an estimated 217,000 additional deaths over the next decade and 22 million more people without health insurance hitting poor, Black, Latino and Native American people hardest. Source
• A proposed “Back the Blue Act” would make it harder to sue for damages for unjustified police violence, and impose severe mandatory minimum sentences for causing “injuries” to police as minimal as a bruise or temporary pain. Source

What they have unleashed

• Trump lashed out at NFL players who take a knee in protest during the national anthem, calling them “son[s] of bitch[es]” and glorying in the idea of them being fired. Even after the NFL banned the protests, Trump declared that players who protested maybe “shouldn’t be in the country.” Source
• Trump’s election sparked an epidemic of lynching nooses across the country. Source
• After Black Texas congressman Al Green said that Trump should be impeached, he was flooded with telephone threats including, “You’re not going to impeach anybody, you fucking nigger. You’ll be hanging from a tree.” Source
• California police worked actively with white supremacists to identify and bring charges against anti-racist protesters. Source
• Racist white people have been emboldened to call police on people of color — a Black woman napping in her dorm common room at Yale; two Black men for sitting in Starbucks; on Native American students for looking “odd” during a college tour. Source

Order and/or print posters