Washington, D.C. – Some of the best words America ever uttered: "Separate, But Equal." Words that once justified segregation, denied justice, erased futures. Words that told generations: you can be here, just not with us.
And now?
It’s back, baby. Bigger. Stronger. More separate than ever before.
What was supposed to be a press conference about military aid to Ukraine, President Trump stepped to the mic, fresh off a phone call with Putin. And then came the line:
"I thought it was a very good phone call. I thought very productive. But I'll be meeting with President Putin and uhhh...We'll make a determination. Tomorrow I'm meeting with President Zelensky and I'll be telling him about the call. We have a problem. They don't get along too well. Those two. It's sometimes tough to have meetings. So we may do something where we're SEPARATE. SEPARATE BUT EQUAL."
Somebody forgot to tell MAGA this was a press conference about support for Ukraine, not a public rehearsal for Jim Crow 2.0.
But it was a Freudian slip in the truest sense. A glimpse behind the curtain. A line so raw it echoed the beliefs not just of Trump, but of every Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos sitting in the front row of history, holding the match, smiling while it all burns.
Separate. But Equal.
On Inauguration Day, while American’s were still trying to figure out what a Trump’s presidency would look like, we got our answer in real time. The billionaires gathered in the Rotunda. The his supporters were left out in the cold—literally.
A Seig Heil, from the head billionaire himself, Elon Musk, delivered in front of the Presidential Seal. And a sleight of hand so slick, so practiced, that even now, days later, the nation is still asking: "What the hell just happened here?"
What happened was this: President Trump signed an Executive Order banning The Civil Rights Act.
Yes, that Civil Rights Act. The one so many Black American’s bled and died for. The one that paved the way for millions of immigrants to come to this land and prosper. The legislative illusion of what little equality we had. Gone.
500+ years of struggle, fire hoses, marching feet, jail cells, funerals, broken bones, and unsolved deaths—erased with the flick of a pen while ICE rolled down the streets of Chicago.
“They killed everything we bled for,” said a Amari Benton 66 from Grenada, Mississippi standing on the corner of Frederick and 7th. “Civil Rights Act? Gone. DEI? Gone. All that marching, all those funerals, all that damn blood — for what? So some immigrants could come here, cash in on our struggle, and hand it back to the same bastards who put us in chains?”
She looked away before continuing. “Martin. Malcolm. Medgar. Fred Hampton. Ella Baker.. Angela Davis. Assatan Shakur. Ain’t none of them died so this country could go backwards. But that’s exactly what we got. And the ones who should’ve known better — didn’t. And now? Immigrants— who prospered off the blood we spilled… threw it all away like it was some old damn receipt.They didn’t even blink.”
Many American citizens are furious — and they should be. The ICE deportations. The midnight raids. The cities crawling with Military patrols. The FBI acting like it’s 1955 and The CIA kicking down doors like they’re filming a highlight reel for fascism. And let’s not forget ATF’s and bounty hunters — snatching people off buses like it’s Mussolini’s Italy again. Naturally, the blame lands on Trump. But he didn’t get here alone. He had help — a whole lot of it.
After the dust settled and the ballots were burned, the numbers told the truth:
• Hispanic Community: 67% lined up for Trump. • Asian Community: 72% gave him their vote. • The Arabs: 81% marched to the polls and said “yes.” • White American’s? A staggering 98% in support. Practically unanimous.
And the African American’s? Just 20%.
The rest? They cheered while the sword was being sharpened — as long as it wasn’t swinging their way.
“I’ll be honest,” said Darren Liu, a from Alameda, California. “When I voted to get rid of DEI, I figured it’d only cut out some bloated program giving handouts to the Blacks. That’s what they told us. That it was about fairness. That it was about ‘merit.’”
He exhaled, staring at the pink slip in his hand. “Now my daughter’s scholarship is gone. My sister got laid off from her state job. They said DEI was the problem — but turns out we were just the next domino. They used us to swing the sword. Then swung it back at us.”
And get rid of it he did. Within moments of banning the Civil Rights Act, President Trump signed an executive order eliminating DEI from every federal agency, grant system, and hiring pipeline in the country.
“They told us voting for Trump would protect our values,” said Jamal Rivers, a mechanical engineer from Pennsylvania. “What we got was the Department of Education bleeding out, Affirmative Action gone, and our kids locked out of the future. We marched. We organized. And then we watched the same communities we stood up for turn around and stab us in the back in broad daylight.”