THE IRS IS COMING FOR SCHOOLS THAT HELP BLACK KIDS AND CALLING IT CIVIL RIGHTS Donald Trump's Treasury Department just proposed ripping tax-exempt status away from any school that dares offer targeted support to a specific racial group Read that twice because the cruelty is in the wording A tutoring program for kids who've been historically locked out gets torched. A scholarship fund built to fix generations of exclusion gets torched. A mentorship pipeline for first-generation Black and Latino students gets torched But a religious school that only accepts kids of its own faith? Untouched. Fully protected. Trump made sure of that The AAUP's president called it exactly what it is — an affirmative attempt to turn civil-rights law against the very people it was written to protect Fifty years of law designed to stop discrimination, and Donald Trump's IRS just weaponized it to punish anyone still trying to undo discrimination This isn't happening in a vacuum. Harvard's already been strangled with funding freezes and tax-status threats. This is the same playbook, aimed at every school in the country that ever tried to level the field Race-neutral criteria only, they say. Income, geography, first-generation status — sure, as long as it never actually names the harm it's trying to fix That's not colorblind policy. That's erasing the evidence of the crime and calling it justice Trump didn't write this rule to help disadvantaged kids. He wrote it to make sure nobody's allowed to say out loud which kids got left behind and why They are not going to stop until every institution in this country is too scared to say the word race out loud