Minority Business Agency Accused Of Reverse Racism, Ordered To Serve W
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In today’s episode of White Fragility Ruins Everything, a government agency that was created some 50 years ago to aid the development of minority-owned businesses has been ordered by a federal judge in Texas to stop being reverse-racist against white business owners by doing what the agency was created to do, which is lend its aid where it’s needed most.
From USA Today:
Siding with white business owners who sued the Minority Business Development Agency for discrimination, Judge Mark T. Pittman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas said the agency’s mission to help disadvantaged businesses owned by Black, Hispanic and other racial and ethnic groups gain access to capital and contracts violates the rights of all Americans to receive equal protection under the constitution.
“If courts mean what they say when they ascribe supreme importance to constitutional rights, the federal government may not flagrantly violate such rights with impunity. The MBDA has done so for years. Time’s up,” Pittman, who was named to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump, wrote in a 93-page decision.
Pittman directed the Nixon-era agency to overhaul its programs in a...
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