In a major feature story published today, NBC News reports that three major White House Initiatives — each designed to coordinate outreach to and enhance educational opportunities for communi…
Absent any action by President Trump, all three Initiatives will cease to exist at the end of next week, in accordance with an Executive Order signed by President Obama to grant each the authority to continue operations through Trump’s transition period. Trump could easily sign an Executive Order — something the president appears to enjoy doing — that would renew each of the Initiatives and the related Presidential Advisory Commissions. However, Trump has appeared to vacate all interest in or responsibility for the three Initiatives — despite their missions of addressing educational outcomes in the Black, Hispanic, and Asian American & Pacific Islander communities — leaving the fate of these programs in serious doubt.
...Yet again, the White House signals that serving America’s people of colour is not among this administration’s priorities. Instead — through either incompetence or deliberate malice — President Trump is at the cusp of allowing three Initiatives that have withstood the transition of power between four presidents including two from each of America’s major political parties to languish into irrelevance; and, possibly fade away into non-existence altogether. President Trump is the sitting American president, but he signals no interest in being a president to America’s people of colour.
