#43 ANTIRACISM VS. RACISM

FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD · May 7, 2026 · 16m · transcript

In this audio version of “MAKING RACISM OFFICIAL AGAIN,” I read aloud my argument that the Trump administration’s assault on voting rights, civil rights organizations, DEI, and equal protection is not random. It is part of a larger project: rebuilding racism into the infrastructure of American life.

From the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act to the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, from Trump’s long history of racial grievance to the GOP’s renewed war on multiracial democracy, this piece asks what we are willing to see clearly—and what we are willing to fight.

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