Lawsuits challenging race-conscious programs for small businesses have had a chilling effect in one of the largest minority-majority cities.
A national political fight over affirmative action — including lawsuits filed systematically across the U.S. by conservative groups hoping to take the issue up to the Supreme Court — is quickly reshaping the procurement industry in one of the largest minority-majority cities in the country.
“One of the long-term goals of our project is to dismantle all race-based preferences in the procurement industry or the contracting industry nationwide,” Lennington said. “If want to help businesses that are disadvantaged, they should help businesses that are disadvantaged,” said Lennington. Instead they “basically stereotype people based on race … presuming that everybody in a certain racial category deserves help.”“There are now a host of organizations purporting to champion the rights of white people to challenge any attempt to address social and economic imbalances,” Lane said.
“All of those victories are because of race-conscious ,” said Christopher Herring, a member of the Fair Contracting Coalition, which represents minority-owned businesses fighting the changes.without race and gender points was pulled from the City Council’s agenda in December amid concern that it was moving too swiftly away from a program that’s helping historically disadvantaged groups.
With the federal government poised to spend north of a trillion of dollars on infrastructure projects, San Antonio was one of two citiesfor a national project by Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab focused on getting that money to Black- and Hispanic-owned businesses.
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