A Racist Government!

We all know this. We saw it in the promotions in the military. We saw it in his cabinet picks. We see it in his staffing picks suck as Stephen Miller.

Gary Franks: For Trump, it’s a color-blind man’s world

Recently the War Secretary found all qualified Black Americans and women eligible for a promotion to the rank of General “not fit” to receive the promotion

The Hartford Courant

By Gary Franks

June 17, 2026

President Donald Trump is definitely color blind, as he can only see white, and as far as gender, it is men in all key roles. Maybe it has something to do with how Trump amassed large vote totals. White men carried Trump into the White House.

Now, he’s still defending an Anti-Weaponization Fund of $1.776 billion that would have had nearly all, if not all, of their proposed reparations payout going to “white men.” (It should be noted that 400 years of Black slavery to get zero dollars in reparations, while a few hours of questionable and many illegal acts — i.e., attacking police officers — could have shared nearly $2 billion in reparations. Oh well).

Let us review the record of Trump 2.0 on race and gender.

Women and Black Americans have never fared well in Trump’s political orbit. The number of Black Republicans in the House of Representatives will go from the best ever to the worst since when I was the lone Black Republican in Congress — thanks, at least in part, to Trump. Leading Republican women voices in Congress will also be gone in January, thanks at least partially to Trump.

The Washington Post reported that Trump's cabinet current administration also is around 80–90% White overall.

Recently the War Secretary found all qualified Black Americans and women eligible for a promotion to the rank of General “not fit” to receive the promotion. Yet, all the white men eligible for a promotion to the rank of General were promoted.

This is the War Secretary (Pete Hegseth) that denied Black Engineers the opportunity to interview and compete for jobs in the Defense Department and followed by doubling down on his attack to deny opportunities to Black Americans. He “strongly suggested” that corporations doing business with the Pentagon also should not even interview Black engineering prospects at the job fair.

My concerns is that Hegseth is making the military into a White Christian male army. That he takes his crusader's persona to heart... Christian White males warriors.

Any objective political scientists, academics, sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, statisticians, or “seventh graders” would be able to figure out that our president has serious issues with strong women leaders and Black Americans who are not former athletes.

Then we have the Secretary of Defense, Hegseth... George Public Broadcasting reported that,

 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth intervened to stop the promotions of several high-ranking service members including four Army officers, two Black men and two female soldiers, on track to become one-star generals, NPR has confirmed.

According to a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly, Hegseth made the highly unusual move of interfering in the regular promotion process, as first reported in the New York Times. A second U.S. official also not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that Hegseth has been weeding out senior officers who are deemed ideologically incompatible.

NPR has also learned that a Black colonel and a female colonel from another branch of the military were taken off the promotion list, according to a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly. This would bring the total to at least six promotions blocked by Hegseth.

They say that racism runs in families... Trump's father was arrested in Queens, New York in 1927 during a violent Memorial Day clash between the police and members of the Ku Klux Klan.