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A long time ago, in a swamp far, far away, the government cooked up a program that said, “Some businesses get special goodies if the owner fits a certain category.” It was sold as a way to help genuinely struggling, disadvantaged people.
But then the government added a shortcut:
“If you’re a racial minority, we will automatically declare you disadvantaged. No questions asked.”
And that’s where the fairy tale ends and the games begin.
Companies figured out they could form 51–49 partnerships where the “51 percent owner” brought absolutely nothing to the table except their skin color, and the 49 percent partner did all the actual work. DEI at its scariest.
And in perfect government fashion, they never bothered to check who was actually disadvantaged, never checked if anyone actually faced discrimination, and didn’t even care if the so-called “disadvantaged owner” was a millionaire nepo baby.
In 1953, Congress instructed the Small Business Administration to reserve some federal contracts for “disadvantaged” businesses. Beginning in 1986, SBA counted businesses owned by racial minorities as “presumptively” disadvantaged. That meant instead of an applicant having to show that he had actually faced discrimination, he simply needed to show his race. The result was the 8(a) program, a sprawling DEI enterprise that has impacted every aspect of government.
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Ultima sued in March 2020, alleging anti-white discrimination, but the Trump administration fought it, filing a motion to dismiss in July 2020.
Documents unearthed through that lawsuit revealed that even though the government claimed being a racial minority merely provided a “rebuttable presumption” that someone had experienced discrimination that “could be overcome with credible evidence to the contrary,” it had no mechanism for someone to actually rebut it. That means even “nepo babies” and people who worked in industries where their race never experienced discrimination were put on the fast track to government contracts.
A “socially and economically disadvantaged small business” is one that is at least 51% owned by a disadvantaged person. So, soon people began forming 51-49 partnerships where one person’s role was essentially to be a racial minority so contracts could be awarded to the company with no competition, while the other provided the actual expertise and work.
Even worse, there was no process for anyone to say:
“Hey, I’m not actually disadvantaged. This isn’t real.”
So, as you can imagine, it turned into a giant magic-word DEI scam. Say the right racial category, get free government contracts, and everyone else is locked out.
Let freedom ring…
The Daily Wire piece goes on:
James O’Keefe recently captured an executive from one such business admitting to being a “pass-through” that collected tens of millions of dollars by being a Native American-owned company that got government contracts and subcontracted the work to others, and SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said a full review of the 8(a) contracting program is underway.
Discovery in the Ultima lawsuit showed that SBA has never removed a group from “disadvantaged” status, making it a permanent reparations program instead of one that worked to offset past discrimination for a specific period of time.
It also revealed that SBA made no effort to determine whether specific minority groups had faced discrimination in specific industries. It simply assumed that all minority groups were disadvantaged in all fields — even giving Indians a leg up in computer science, a field in which they have been dramatically overrepresented for its entire history.
As mentioned above, “Ultima” finally said enough is enough. They had done the work for years, built the expertise, and were suddenly pushed aside because they weren’t the approved skin color. So, they sued.
And what the lawsuit revealed was stunning. Let’s recap:
• The government never removed any group from the “disadvantaged” list… ever.
• They never checked if specific racial groups were discriminated against in specific industries.
• They never checked if anyone was actually struggling.
• It became a permanent racial preference program with no end date.
• Middleman companies popped up everywhere, taking millions for literally doing nothing except being the “right” race on paper.
A judge finally stepped in and said what everyone already knew: This is illegal. You cannot assume someone is disadvantaged because of their skin color.
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That ruling should have ended the scam, right? No. Not even close.
The Biden regime tried to keep it alive by saying, “Fine, write us an essay about your victimhood.” And shocker, it looks like they’re rubber-stamping those too.
The Daily Wire piece goes on:
But in July 2023, Judge Clifton Corker, a Trump appointee in the Eastern District of Tennessee, ruled that assuming every minority was disadvantaged in every field was illegal, especially after Supreme Court precedent such as the 2023 Students for Fair Admissions case that ruled that affirmative action was illegal in colleges.
Biden’s excesses in flagrant racial favoritism led to court rulings that didn’t exist years prior, and included ruling against a program — also administered by the SBA — that prioritized minorities for coronavirus aid.
And that brings this gruesome little fairytale to where we are now. This is a seventy-year-old racial contracting scam that ballooned into a DEI monster and survived every administration, shrugged off every warning, and kept right on shoveling billions into a system nobody bothered to audit. A judge finally slammed the brakes, exposed the rot, and said in America, you can’t run a government program based on racial shortcuts and call it “fairness.”
The 8(a) program was never about fixing discrimination. It turned into a slush fund for anyone who could tick the right box. Real small businesses got crushed. Real innovation got buried, and real Americans got locked out.
So where do we go from here?
It is time for the Trump team to finish what the courts started. End this DEI disaster completely. Don’t polish it. Don’t bandage it. Don’t “reform” it. Just shut it down, once and for all.
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The swamp has had seventy years of this fairytale.
It’s time to close the book.
You can read the entire article from Daily Wire here.
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