Posted on 03/21/2025 4:35:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.
The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies. The memo explains that it is making changes prompted by President Trump's executive order on diversity, equity and inclusion, which repealed an executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 regarding federal contractors and nondiscrimination. The memo also addresses Trump's executive order on gender identity.
While there are still state and federal laws that outlaw segregation and discrimination that companies need to comply with, legal experts say this change to contracts across the federal government is significant.
"It's symbolic, but it's incredibly meaningful in its symbolism," says Melissa Murray, a constitutional law professor at New York University. "These provisions that required federal contractors to adhere to and comply with federal civil rights laws and to maintain integrated rather than segregated workplaces were all part of the federal government's efforts to facilitate the settlement that led to integration in the 1950s and 1960s.
"The fact that they are now excluding those provisions from the requirements for federal contractors, I think, speaks volumes," Murray says.
The clause in question is in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, known as the FAR — a huge document used by agencies to write contracts for anyone providing goods or services to the federal government.
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She'd thought he had been a salesman at the store, which closed in 1995. "He's like, 'No, no, no, I only worked in the back because Black people weren't allowed to be on the sales floor,'" she recalls. When it comes to segregation in America, she says, "it's not far removed at all."
1985? Forty years ago?
Never give up the con, right National Propaganda Radio?
Except all-black gatherings have been accepted.
Also, the contracts no longer specifically prohibit
shackles, handcuffs, chains, and whips to be used on employees.
It need not be stipulated in the contract because it is in any case illegal.
The left is outraged because of the dire need to spell out that drinking fountains are not to be segregated in 2025. (Sarcasm)
Haven’t blacks been whining for segregated “safe spaces” on college campuses for years - and in many cases getting them?
I’d like to cancel my taxpayer subscription to NPR…..
I’ll turn 60 in several years and don’t remember any segregation. Yes blacks and whites might self-segregate but that’s due to personal preference. No business had a no backs or no whites policy.
Tampon Tim said the DoE ended segregation in 1979 and now it’s coming back.
That WASNT 1985. That was more like 1965!
She was referring to her FATHER working in an earlier day and age!
So no, it’s at least ‘60s!
And I knew Woodies well. It was in Kolumbia Mall when it first opened 1971 and no way would morally superior Kolumbia have such segregation. Nevermind my whole life, I never noticed any hiding of black workers. That includes the ‘70s.
What duplicitous garbage.
When did you stop beating your wife, Harry?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure general law already covers that.
Frankly, not that I care so much. I believe in the freedom of association.
What nonsense.
All propaganda all the time.
I’m about to turn 62 - born and raised in Georgia. My first grade teacher was a wonderful black woman. There were black children in nearly every class I ever attended, and many black teachers through the years. It’s time these idiots let this go.
This may have been done so as not to give the wokesters the language they need to bring a law suit because they were excluded from using the wrong toilets and lockers.
You aren’t even 60 yet, many of us here at FR remember segregation and some watched as cities like Houston were transformed overnight by forced instant integration.
NPR gaslighter Dindu Duffin.
Lots of stupid articles being published.
Heavy competition, but this one may just be the stupidest.
Pity, those can be great morale boosters.
All private facilities should have the right to deny service to whoever they want.
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