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Oregon Sued For Awarding Aid Money Based on Race
“The pandemic’s harm to Great Northern should qualify it to compete in any government-aid program for businesses that have been affected by Covid-19. And yet the company is ineligible to receive a grant from the Fund because its owner is not Black,” the company wrote in its complaint, which was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Portland.
Conservative legal strategist Edward Blum, who has led high-profile challenges to the federal Voting Rights Act and to racial considerations in college admissions, said his organization is funding Great Northern’s lawsuit. The suit does not name the logging company’s owners, but Blum said they are white.
“This express use of race in distributing government money is unprecedented and blatantly unconstitutional,” the complaint asserts. It names the Oregon Department of Administrative Services as a defendant. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Published in General
Complaint:
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GreatNorthernResourcesOregon-COMPLAINT.pdf
From the complaint:
No competent staff lawyer could have signed off on this. These socialists just don’t care.
I wrote about a similarly discriminatory policy in San Francisco, the Black Supremacy there being a policy involving free money for pregnant Black and Pacific Islanders.
https://ricochet.com/803900/san-francisco-blatantly-ignores-the-equal-protection-clause-why/?load-more=true&pid=803900&_ajax_nonce=975017e153
There were many insightful comments. People often suggested it was subject to challenge by any SF pregnant woman not of the preferred race. I think not, because pregnancy makes one busy and vulnerable, and the woke little fascists of SF will see to it that any plaintiff is evicted, fired, cancelled, vandalized, and or beaten. Or all of them. A lumber company! That is a whole other matter . . .
I asked Ricochet why SF was doing this. I eventually came to believe it was done for revolutionary reasons, to declare independence from the US Constitution. Maybe a first step. It is quite a bit more obvious and in-you-face than sanctuary cities or our diverse AG who spends his tenure “resisting”.
Does all of this nonsense stop if Biden is elected? After all, they won’t need to “resist” any more.
From Sometimes a Great Notion, a movie about a small family logging firm up against a union on strike. It’s a good movie, couldn’t get it to clip just what I wanted so the whole thing is linked.
Paul Newman plays Henry Fonda’s son; Fonda loses his arm in a horrible logging accident which ultimately kills him but has the last word at 1:52:35
The first time I saw that movie it was called Never Give an Inch. Sometimes a Great Notion is a pretty good novel, too.
Robert Reich says we’ll need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This is how it would work.
This country has always been a hateful nation.
Currently it hates Catholics and whites and is currently designing laws and customs to that effect.
This discrimination is merely a logical extension of affirmative action and the whole minority business enterprise concept. It is not unprecedented. It is unconstitutional, but has not been deemed so for years by the PTB.
Ouch!
SCOTUS hasn’t had a problem with affirmative action yet; a clearly unconstitutional policy.
It is not a logical extension of “affirmative action.” It is the exact same thing. It is open race discrimination. So-called “affirmative action” has always been open anti-white race discrimination.
I think that it is very important to reject the propaganda terms used by the Left.
This country has no problem with discrimination as long as those in power are the ones doing the discrimination and writing the laws to do so.