I don’t know where to start, so much has gone on in the past year. Last year, we were just speculating on the impact that the Trump Administration would have in America. And now we are witnessing a true horror unfold in America — and the rest of the world.

It isn’t just that Donald Trump is putting the hammer to the gains of the civil rights movement and taking us back to an earlier era of white superiority and removing tools that promoted diversity equity and inclusion so that everyone could thrive in America. It’s not just that he is destroying the framework where everyone has to achieve and earn what they gain in society instead of one group feeling entitled to the harvest of others because of the color of their skin.

What is salt in the wounds is what the Trump Administration is doing, using the rhetoric and the tools of the civil rights movement to destroy civil rights. They talk about racial discrimination against white men and use that to justify eliminating DEI initiatives in the private as well as public sectors. They are using the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Office of Civil Rights as a vehicle to investigate and destroy civil rights programs. What took decades to build, the Trump Administration has torn down in a year through a blatant disregard for the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.

But it isn’t enough to just change policies, Trump is also trying to erase the contributions of African Americans and other people of color from mention in the federal government. Mention of these contributions have been taken off of governmental websites. Military bases have been renamed after Confederate generals who fought the federal government in the American Civil War.