THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded his call.
When Kenni Miller started as a shift manager in his local Sheetz convenience store in Altoona, Pa., he felt something that he rarely had as a Black man in the workplace.
He felt trusted. He felt appreciated.
When he was fired a few weeks later, in the summer of 2020 after a background check, Mr. Miller, then 27, was devastated. A nonviolent, felony drug conviction from his teenage years had never caused him to be denied a job before. And he already proved he could do the work.
“I was well spoken,” Mr. Miller told The New York Times in an interview. “They had me running the cash register, talking to people, all the customers. I’m doing these things, learning the whole store, so I’m equipped for the job. That’s not the issue here, right?”
In 2024, Mr. Miller was part of a class-action lawsuit against Sheetz filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging that the company’s criminal background checks disproportionately screened out applicants of color.
But soon after President Trump took office, the E.E.O.C. abruptly dropped the case.
The agency cited an executive order by Mr. Trump that directed federal agencies to “deprioritize” cases like Mr. Miller’s, in which companies are scrutinized not for intentional discrimination, but for having policies that have an unintentional, “disparate impact” on minority applicants. » | Erica L. Green and Niko Gallogly | Erica L. Green is a White House correspondent and Niko Gallogly writes about business. | Sunday, July 5, 2026
Is this the behaviour of a man sent by God to save a nation? Has God such poor judgment that He would send a convicted criminal and sex offender to save a nation? What a joke! What a sick joke!
My heart bleeds for this young man, trying his best as he is to scratch a meagre living, and then Trump goes and screws it all up for him. How disgusting!
Trump is a racist, through and through. And those American wallies cheer him on. Go figure! — © Mark Alexander
