• DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is an understudied hormone.
• Until now, the topic of absentee ballots has been understudied and underanalyzed.
• This protein has been linked to a rare and understudied allergy to corn.
• The book shines a new light onto an understudied part of her art.
• “People in the African American community suffer worse disease at about every level,” Thornburg says. “It’s terribly understudied.”

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President Trump and his administration are working hard to end racism and sexism — when they believe these evils are directed against white men, rather than people of color and women.  

During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump said “there is a definite anti-white feeling in this country and that can’t be allowed.”

Trying to appeal to white voters, Trump promised that if elected, he would end diversity, equity and inclusion policies that he alleged discriminate against whites (especially white men) and benefit less-qualified minorities and women. 

The president has kept his promise, and federal agencies have carried out his anti campaign against programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. They have used civil rights laws — enacted in the 1960s to protect Black people and women from centuries of discrimination — to do just the opposite and instead benefit white men. Agencies have also reduced their enforcement of a law designed to protect women and minorities from some types of discrimination.

The latest example of the Trump administration’s efforts was the July 21 decision by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to stop requiring employers to report how many men, women and members of racial and some ethnic minorities they employ. Employees had to be listed in one of 10 job categories, ranging from laborers and service workers to senior-level executives.

The commission has required this reporting since 1966. The agency typically gets more than 88,000 complaints of workplace discrimination annually and uses the data it collects to prioritize which cases to investigate and aid in some of its investigations.

Some 73,000 employers with at least 100 employees (or 50 workers in the case of federal contractors) filed reports with the EEOC on the demographic makeup of their workforces for 2023, covering more than 50 million employees. While data has been collected for 2024, the Trump administration has not released it.

According to NPR, the 2023 report showed that white men made up one-third of the U.S. workforce but held 53 percent of high-level jobs. Asian men, along with white and Asian women, were proportionately represented in such jobs, but Black and Hispanic employees of both sexes were underrepresented.

Yet rather than encouraging more Black and Hispanic people to report alleged workplace discrimination to the EEOC, Commission Chair Andrea Lucas, who was appointed to her job by Trump, posted a video on X in December aimed at soliciting discrimination complaints from white men.

“Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at work based on your race or sex?” Lucas asked in the video. “You may have a claim to recover money under federal civil rights laws. Contact the EEOC as soon as possible.”

The commission’s decision to stop collecting demographic statistics on the nation’s workforce in the future won’t make workplace discrimination against people of color and women disappear. It will just cover it up, which seems to be the goal of the two Republican members of the commission who voted for the new policy. The lone Democratic member opposed it.   

This reminds me of Trump’s ridiculous claim during the COVID pandemic that the disease would be less of a problem if the government didn’t collect statistics on how many people were infected. “Think of this … if we did half the testing we would have half the cases,” Trump said.   

Early in his second term, Trump signed executive orders to declare diversity, equity and inclusion programs “illegal and immoral.” The orders ended these programs in the federal government and sought to end them in other sectors, quickly resulting in many companies scaling back or eliminating their DEI efforts.   

The president claims his campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion is designed to ensure that people get jobs and are admitted to college based on merit, rather than race or gender. But this claim rests on the racist and sexist belief that white men have more merit than others. They don’t.

Trump seems unable to believe that people of color and women are just as smart and qualified as white men for all sorts of jobs. During his 2024 presidential campaign, he tried to get Black votes by saying several times that unauthorized immigrants were “taking Black jobs” — as if the only jobs Black people can get are low-paying manual labor positions.

As a Black woman, I’ve been underestimated all my life and insulted by people telling me I got jobs only because of my race and sex. If being Black or female were such a great advantage, why are we so underrepresented in high-level jobs? Why did Black households have an average income of nearly $84,000 in 2024, compared with $124,500 for white households?  

I have experienced racism and sexism all of my life, beginning as a young girl in Louisiana in the last days of Jim Crow, when I had to use public restrooms and drinking fountains labeled “colored” and attend a segregated all-Black elementary school.  

America is a much better and more just place today than it was when I was growing up. But we will not end the evils of racism and sexism by pretending they primarily victimize white men today. 

Donna Brazile is a political strategist, a contributor to ABC News and former chair of the Democratic National Committee. She is the author of “Hacks: Inside the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.”

from — nBrazille, D. (2026, July 29). Trump’s EEOC has cut out demographic data and abandoned its core mission. The Hill. Retrieved August 3, 2026