A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the U.S. Minority Business Development Agency, founded during the Nixon administration, must avail itself to disadvantaged entrepreneurs of all races and ethnicities, including whites.
The summary judgment rendered on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, appointed in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump, was the latest in a recent series of federal court decisions rolling back decades of affirmative action programs aimed at remedying racial discrimination.
Pittman, a judge in the Forth Worth branch of the Northern Texas District, sided with two white businessmen who sued the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), a branch of the Commerce Department, last year after being denied benefits on the basis of race.
The plaintiffs were told they were ineligible for agency assistance because they were not members of any of the races or ethnicities included on a list of qualified minorities presumed to be disadvantaged and thus entitled to services, according to the judge’s summary of the case.
I get systemic racism and privilege. As a middle-aged white guy, I’m stunned at the privilege, even vs. being a poor young white guy watching blacks get fucked over. Man do I have stories.
But granting government privilege by race sounds kinda messy, given my post, doesn’t it?
My point is, we’re so genetically mixed, it’s getting harder by the day to point to a person and say, “Black!”, or anything else. Jo Koy has some hilarious standup about Philippinos being the Mexicans of Asia. If you dropped me in a room with my wife’s friends, and put in ear plugs, I couldn’t tell!
Anyway, I’m white as fuck, and it’s obvious. Maybe I should shut up.
Well if you want an answer, go tell a racist you have a black great grandparent. They subscribe to the one drop theory. But it’s also not just about current stuff. It’s about the generational trauma too. Just because someone was born lighter than their parents does not erase the difficulty inherent in anything involving their parents. Getting into school, camps, sports, banking, networking, etc.
So white Jews should be beneficiaries of affirmative action in 2024?
Catholics were targets of the Ku Klux Klan. How should they be aided in 2024?
Why? Are you denying then bank loans in 2024? Did you redline them in 1965? Pass criminal sentencing laws meant to destroy their community in 1992? Are you not even looking at job applications with names like Matt and Adam?
None of those things are lawfully happening today towards any immutable traits
The effects of those policies very obviously ripple out today, and many of them absolutely are still in effect regardless. Racism never ended.
Did anti Semitism? If not then why aren’t jews also treated as beneficiaries?
Also, native Americans are currently living on apartheid reservation systems. Why don’t we ever mention them in these discussions?
I don’t know dude. But these problems certainly aren’t solved by forcing organizations which exist to be benefit minorities into wasting their resources on the majority of people who do not suffer racial discrimination. Obviously.
But jews and Native Americans do. And ethnic whites used to. Why are all of them ignored?