Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, November 9, 2017
MILKING POLITICS?
Unless you think that purchasing a political cow will ensure economic milk, for black people, like before the RICHMOND V. CROSON case was decided, you'd better rethink !
In it, in 1989, the United States Supreme Court specifically said that election spoils were off-limits to/for newly elected black people, because such would violate the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.
This was written in "legalese," the esoteric parlance of lawyers; but its effect was still the same: it erected a barrier to "minority business enterprise" (MBE). What that Papa Bush-era Court had said, was then, studiously applied by the lower courts to thwart awards of MBE construction related contracts and a variety of others, from the public treasury, to blacks, to which other groups had been the earlier beneficiaries .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…/City_of_Richmond_v._J.A._Croso….