Court Decision Voids Major Small Business Contracting Law

I’m happy for this ruling, but the fact of the matter is that contractors have long since circumvented this rule by either setting up their own dummy minority firms or partnering up with a minority outfit set up just for the purpose of obtaining contracts for White companies.

Tom Iron…

I love the line “economically disadvantaged groups”….

I would think that almost every small business owner is from an economically disadvantaged group, otherwise why would most people bother with a “small” business, generally speaking? Minority owned businesses have been getting away with murder for years. I know this from relatives of mine who have had to compete against them.

There are all sorts of weird laws on the books intended to help minority-owned businesses. Once, when I was being hired to a job that would involve doing tech support for cell phone customers, they told me I first had to fly 500 miles to a training site in Maryland because they had been required to outsource their training operations to a black-owned company.

I ended up taking a job in a totally opposite line of work, that paid less but avoided all the hassles of government regulation.

Affirmative action in general is clearly violative of equal protection, but courts have concocted an elaborate legal “dance” over the past 40 years to allow themselves to uphold egregious anti-white discrimination — even when the state is the actor! — while striking down even minor infractions against “protected groups.”

How? By holding whites to the lowest standard, women and certain other groups to an intermediate standard, and blacks to the highest (while claiming to use the same standard for all). Yes — the Supreme Court actually applies the Equal Protection clause unequally, and even hierarchically. Read Justice O’Connor’s opinion in the Michigan Law School case (Grutter v. Bollinger) for an introduction to this technique. The court in this story applied the test fairly and honestly.

O Happy Day. O Jubilation. With Obama in, Blacks are free at
last, free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last-to fail.

Bummer… I work at an 8a company that contracts with the Commerce dept. Although it’s complete bunk. The CFO’s wife is 1/4 Native American, and she doesn’t really run the company, he does, and he’s as white as the driven snow. She has the title of CEO, but she doesn’t do anything other than sit at home and be 1/4 indian; so her husband’s company can get the contract.

I have seen too many political decisions on this to find it funny. I mean, in DEFENSE? I have to be able to trust my superiors and my gear. Is REALLY everybody corrupt? OK, now I´m in academia, so I´m no more directly affected, but I remember how it was. Wasting money on PC is never a good idea. (it even gets you thinking who the enemy is)

Read “Harrison Bergeron” on the “equality of outcome” fallacy (g).

At last, some good news. It’s been mighty depressing so far.

I predicted that white people would find that electing a black president would not give them the absolution from their sin of racism that they sought. I still believe that blacks are not about to grant that absolution, but is it possible that whites themselves will now cast off that burden of unearned guilt? Please let it be so.

This program was not just for blacks, hispanics, etc. It also covers Hasidic Jews - a religious, not racial designation. (Google: “Efraim Diveroli” for more info on that.)

And note the year it was implemented - 1986, when Reagan was in the White House and Repuglicans still controlled the US Senate. The Reagan Administration is also the one which added Hasidic Jews to the category of the so-called “disadvantaged.”

Annual legal immigration also doubled during the Reagan years to over half a million, and has doubled to over a million since then with lots of support from Repuglicans.

It’s time for conservatives to wake up and realize that on issues other than slashing taxes for the rich the Repuglican Party is scarcely more reliable than the Demicratic one. They won’t vote conservtaively on social issues until you force them to.

I once represented a client who was attemptng to collect money owed from a black contractor that purportedly designed and installed computer networks for colleges and universities. This particular minority-owned “company” consisted of one black man and a cell phone - he had no employees, no office, no warehouse, no trucks. He would secure a contract from the governing board of the school and then “sub out” all of the procurement and labor, with a healthy markup for his troubles, of course. He was, essentially, a needless and wasteful middleman. And somehow, he still managed to go bankrupt.

Now that equality has been visibly achieved, perhaps white people will have no problem tossing out all of those well-intentioned, infinitely costly programs designed to achieve it.

I’d like to start with:

* Affirmative action in all forms.
* Non-discrimination in housing.
* Replace welfare with job insurance.

At least, that’s what I’ve been advocating for a long time.

Political correctness, affirmative action, cultural relativism, racial sensitivity, minority preference, etc. etc. are luxuries that economically successful countries can afford and promote [because they have enough resources to compensate for the innate waste and inefficiency]; but, for struggling countries, such “Tom Foolery” is well “Tom Foolery!”

The United States is simply no longer in a position in which throwing unlimited money away on African - American businesses can be justified. In case you haven’t noticed the Dow Jones Average is heading in the wrong direction, i.e. South!

As one of this country’s greatest learned, biblical scholar and future Presidential advisor extant, is reportedly quoted as saying:”Da chickens, they be commin home to roost!”

And for once, he is Wright!

MoMo

Any law that gives people special privileges based on race is invalid and illegal.