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….