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US judge in Texas rules minority business agency must serve all races (www.reuters.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/news

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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.

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[–] werefreeatlast 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also please, could we call it "ethnicity?" Even white people can jump in the band wagon on this. There's only one race, the human race. Race is not a scientific term, it's a bullshit political term meant to create separation. I'm here to tell you that I'm brown and proud of knowing that I'm simply homosapiens and that there are no other actual scientifically distinct "breathes or races" it's just "human". If I wasn't pointed as brown all the time I would marry someone else from anywhere in the world... I did end up doing that and my kids don't look like I did when I was a baby, but they look like mommy and daddy in many different ways. You call this "look" or set of features "race" thinking like a racist that it actually means a distinct different humanoid that cannot have offspring with you or other humanoid species. But again you are wrong. Only one smart hominid species called homosapiens. Everything else is just non scientific bullshit.

[–] BothsidesistFraud 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Race is not a biological term but it's absolutely a sociological term, i.e. a complex social construct we've created based on superficial physical characteristics

[–] werefreeatlast 1 points 8 months ago

Yes. But you know how I never tell my coworkers how I doggy style my wife? The most professional way to say that is that I love my wife very much. Maybe I could say to my wife...do you want to make love tonight...at the arts section in Walmart. The thing has a name but it's not appropriate. Race is not a scientific term. It means to describe how some people are brown or white or black and everything in between but it's wrong in all ways and means nothing since the things it refers to are simply not speciation features. So yeah, let's shout about doggy style in the middle of Walmart vs screaming "I love you"...see what reactions you get.