The headline on the front page of the Labor Day New York Times, “Black Women Most Affected By Trump Cuts,” was silly enough in its wokist immersion. but the online headline deck -- “In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit -- President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees” -- was even more amusing.
It brought to mind the old joke about a hypothetical Times headline after nuclear Armageddon: "World Ends, Women & Minorities Hardest Hit." (The paper’s reputation for knee-jerk liberalism goes back decades.)
White House reporter Erica Green certainly delivered on the headline’s promise of portraying black women as racist victims of the Trump administration:
When President Trump started dismantling federal agencies and dismissing rank-and-file civil servants, Peggy Carr, the chief statistician at the Education Department, immediately started to make a calculation.
She was the first Black person and the first woman to hold the prestigious post of commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. As a political appointee, she knew there was a risk of becoming a target.
But her 35-year career at the department spanned a half dozen administrations, including Mr. Trump’s first term, and she had earned the respect of officials from both parties. Surely, she thought, the office tasked with tracking the achievement of the nation’s students could not fall under the president’s definition of “divisive and harmful” or “woke.”
But for the first time in her career, Dr. Carr’s data points didn’t add up.
On a February afternoon, a security guard showed up to her office just as she was preparing to hold a staff meeting. Fifteen minutes later, the staff watched in tears and disbelief as she was escorted out of the building.
Consistent with The Times's woke style, there were many, many more instances of the word “black” being capitalized [emphasis mine]:
While tens of thousands of employees have lost their jobs in Mr. Trump’s slash-and-burn approach to shrinking the federal work force, experts say the cuts disproportionately affect Black employees — and Black women in particular. Black women make up 12 percent of the federal work force, nearly double their share of the labor force overall.
For generations, the federal government has served as a ladder to the middle class for Black Americans who were shut out of jobs because of discrimination. The federal government has historically offered the population more job stability, pay equity and career advancement than the private sector….
Conservatives would argue that “job stability” and “pay equity” are euphemisms for pointless, unnecessary bureaucratic jobs that overpay. But nonetheless, Green insisted "economists" believe "Black women are being hit especially hard by Mr. Trump’s policies, which are also rippling through the private sector as corporations have abandoned their diversity, equity and inclusion practices and related jobs, many of which were held by Black women."
Trump lambasted DEI during his campaign, so it should be no surprise he’s following through. Green again quoted so-called "experts" to bolster her cries of racism: "Experts attribute those job losses, in large part, to Mr. Trump’s cuts to federal agencies where Black women are highly concentrated."
After quoting one laid-off employee whining about “white privilege,” Green pretended the Department of Education and USAID haven’t been on the conservative cut radar for decades, their racial makeup notwithstanding:
According to a New York Times tracker of Mr. Trump’s cuts, agencies where minorities and women were the majority of the work force, such as the Department of Education and U.S.A.I.D., were targeted for the largest work force reductions or complete elimination….
In his second term, Mr. Trump has been aggressive in removing high-profile leaders of color, in particular, often disparaging them as incompetent, corrupt or D.E.I. hires.
Again, as he’s long demonstrated, Donald Trump is an equal opportunity insulter.
Green apparently sought out the most delusional race activist sources, and they didn’t disappoint.
Kelly Dermody, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, said that of the workers who sought legal help to challenge their dismissals, 80 percent were people of color, and the majority were Black women.
“When an organization goes after really, really highly competent, singularly great, Black women — the message it sends, the terror it sends to every other professional woman, person of color, really is so profound,” she said.
She came to a clear conclusion:
“This is an attack on Black women — fully,” she said.
Green also attacked Trump’s DEI rollback as racist in February 2025. The R-word even made the headline: “Racist Undertones Surface in Trump’s Attacks on Diversity.”
