Yahoo - Today, we are witnessing a coordinated campaign to thwart the progress of Black communities by using the term DEI as a smokescreen. The goal is clear: to gain illegitimate control by erasing inconvenient truths, distorting reality, and suppressing dissent. The architects of this campaign are not just targeting Black Americans; they are also undermining the very foundation of American democracy, deceiving the public to consolidate their own power.
Last week, Onyx Impact released Blackout: The Real-World Cost of Erasing, Distorting and Suppressing Black Progress. This first-of-its-kind report provides a comprehensive analysis detailing how Black history and Black futures are under attack. What we prove is that the attacks we’ve seen from the administration and its acolytes are not happenstance; this is a coordinated disinformation campaign that has already caused real harm in Black communities. In just eight months, Onyx Impact found 15,723 examples of harm that put Black health, wealth and futures on the line – from $3.4 billion in federal grants being cut or frozen to 6,769 federal datasets containing research about Black communities being erased. All behind a disinformation smokescreen redefining DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion—as a culture war.
We have seen this playbook before. After the Civil War, Reconstruction promised a new birth of freedom—only to be followed by the Nadir, a period when Black progress was violently rolled back, history was rewritten, and democracy itself was undermined. Today’s Blackout campaign is a digital-age replay of those tactics: erase the record, distort the evidence, suppress the dissenters. The lesson from history is clear: When we allow the erasure of Black progress, we all pay the price in lost freedom, diminished democracy, and weakened civic trust. More
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