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.
Everyone cares about class. Conservatives want to be in the class with privileges and liberals want classes to evaporate.
Liberals are not in favor of class disappearing. You’re thinking of socialists. Liberals perpetuate class divide as much as conservatives. Cons are liberals too.
This comment indicates that you don’t know what “class” refers to
It refers to how you relate to the means of production. Whether you own the means of production, or whether you work for the people who do.
You are either an owner or a worker; a part of the bourgeoisie or a part of the proletariat.
It has nothing to do with income or decorum
Weird place to swing Marxist.