Even as we write, the US government is already diverse, probably more diverse than most other American institutions and and corporations. We have the civil service to thank for that. I won't claim the upper echelons of the Civil Service are color-blind, but the explosive growth of the federal government post WWII required so many workers…
Even as we write, the US government is already diverse, probably more diverse than most other American institutions and and corporations. We have the civil service to thank for that. I won't claim the upper echelons of the Civil Service are color-blind, but the explosive growth of the federal government post WWII required so many workers, those in charge of hiring employees could not afford to overlook talent or education or skills, no matter what color they came in. People of Color were often not respected by their white co-workers and as several films have graphically shown, segregation in Washington DC was alive and vigorously enforced. The Capital was after all part of the slave holding South and most of its long time residents were steeped in Southern attitudes. Accordingly, many of the black federal employees entered at the back doors, performed their most often menial tasks, but hung in there because federal employment offered just about the most secure employment available and even offered opportunities for advancement. White House Butlers rose to their prominence through the rigorous training of their predecessors. The female mathematicians hired tor the Manhattan Project and later for NASA, performed the calculations that sent astronauts into space and back safely, and when their jobs were threatened by IBM's monster computers they learned to manage those cranky machines and they adapted. Many, most of them retired from their service with little or no overt recognition of their importance, until many years later when only a very few were still alive; but they retired with a respectable pension.. In time America's Blacks pursued education so they could pass the civil service exams and by that time, post Civil Rights ,the Civil Service was the least segregated workplace in the USA. and it was one of the rising pillars of the African American middle class.
Project 2025 makes the blithe assumption that it can run all the Federal Government without the brains, muscles and drive of African Americans. I have no doubt Black Civil Servants have now a peculiar and specific loyalty to US Democracy and I would never dismiss their capacity for resistance to threats directed at that loyalty - which we of the white persuasion have overlooked for far too long. at our peril.
I believe the Heritage cabal have discounted a great deal of the bone deep attachment to democracy - however you define it that permeates Americans. The right wing's attempts to dispossess people, through eviction, through deportation, through, disenfranchisement, through over incarceration is roiling through our society in a subterranean wave and when these foolish and delusional white supremacists attempt to enforce their color blind edicts and other pie in the sky policies they will be greeted with a stubborn, maybe sullen disrespect True to American ingenuity we will find ways to thwart fascist ambitions, and make a mockery of their petty, illegal manipulations and if necessary to overturn SCOTUS and the financial outlaws currently trying to enforce a medieval caste system. Some people should never watch Game of Thrones.
Even as we write, the US government is already diverse, probably more diverse than most other American institutions and and corporations. We have the civil service to thank for that. I won't claim the upper echelons of the Civil Service are color-blind, but the explosive growth of the federal government post WWII required so many workers, those in charge of hiring employees could not afford to overlook talent or education or skills, no matter what color they came in. People of Color were often not respected by their white co-workers and as several films have graphically shown, segregation in Washington DC was alive and vigorously enforced. The Capital was after all part of the slave holding South and most of its long time residents were steeped in Southern attitudes. Accordingly, many of the black federal employees entered at the back doors, performed their most often menial tasks, but hung in there because federal employment offered just about the most secure employment available and even offered opportunities for advancement. White House Butlers rose to their prominence through the rigorous training of their predecessors. The female mathematicians hired tor the Manhattan Project and later for NASA, performed the calculations that sent astronauts into space and back safely, and when their jobs were threatened by IBM's monster computers they learned to manage those cranky machines and they adapted. Many, most of them retired from their service with little or no overt recognition of their importance, until many years later when only a very few were still alive; but they retired with a respectable pension.. In time America's Blacks pursued education so they could pass the civil service exams and by that time, post Civil Rights ,the Civil Service was the least segregated workplace in the USA. and it was one of the rising pillars of the African American middle class.
Project 2025 makes the blithe assumption that it can run all the Federal Government without the brains, muscles and drive of African Americans. I have no doubt Black Civil Servants have now a peculiar and specific loyalty to US Democracy and I would never dismiss their capacity for resistance to threats directed at that loyalty - which we of the white persuasion have overlooked for far too long. at our peril.
I believe the Heritage cabal have discounted a great deal of the bone deep attachment to democracy - however you define it that permeates Americans. The right wing's attempts to dispossess people, through eviction, through deportation, through, disenfranchisement, through over incarceration is roiling through our society in a subterranean wave and when these foolish and delusional white supremacists attempt to enforce their color blind edicts and other pie in the sky policies they will be greeted with a stubborn, maybe sullen disrespect True to American ingenuity we will find ways to thwart fascist ambitions, and make a mockery of their petty, illegal manipulations and if necessary to overturn SCOTUS and the financial outlaws currently trying to enforce a medieval caste system. Some people should never watch Game of Thrones.