Under Donald Trump, America begins its 251st year with racism front and center

America is now into its 251st year. Here's how the Trump administration started it off: Trump mocking five-year-old Muslim kindergartners, a cabinet secretary who couldn't bring himself to condemn a Nazi march, and federal agencies walking away from discrimination cases, all at his direction.Three instances are not coincidences or one-offs. They are an ominous signal that America's 251st year will be one of overt, dangerous and explosive racism.On Sunday, Trump reposted a disturbing video of Black Muslim kindergartners in hijabs at their graduation. With their faces exposed. He amplified the original caption: "Public school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Every girl is in a hijab … in kindergarten."Another blatantly racist post, chilling in how it goes after children. Trump is tearing through the bottom of the barrel on racism when innocent kids are exposed. He's personally choosing to make small children the target of bigoted hate, because of how they pray and what they look like.And the most galling part is that Trump has not taken the video down, because there are no limits, no apologies, no regrets, no condemnation anymore when it comes to racism.It has spread through the administration to such a degree that it's hard to imagine we're in America's 251st year, and not its 51st, when racism was a deeply prevalent and institutionalized part of American society, and the country was actively built on the enslavement of millions of Black people.While America was turning the page to a new year on the Fourth of July, hundreds of masked Patriot Front marchers, a white nationalist group, stormed through Washington, the kind of scene that, a decade ago, would've gotten unanimous and immediate condemnation from anyone in public office.What was once "very fine people on both sides" is now, to Trump and his henchmen, very fine people on only one side.Related: We now have solid proof that after Trump and Project 2025, the future of the GOP is NazismThere was evidentiary proof when I