Asheville, NC, Prioritizing Federal Aid ‘for Minority and Women Owned Businesses’
How is this allowed?
Asheville, NC, confirmed it will use some of the $250 million aid from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) “for Minority and Women Owned Businesses.”
🚨#BREAKING: The City of Asheville NC confirms they will be using some of the $250m in federal funds from HUD for disaster relief to:
"…prioritize (disaster) assistance for Minority and Women Owned Businesses with scoring criteria"
What?! pic.twitter.com/28wQllQioS
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) March 5, 2025
@SecretaryTurner isn’t this a racist and sexist policy?
Why should someone be de-prioritized for disaster relief just because of their gender or race?
Disaster relief funding should be distributed based on NEED ALONE.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) March 5, 2025
Yes, that says, “Within the Small Business Support Program, the City will prioritize assistance for Minority and Women Owned Businesses (MWBE) within the scoring criteria outlined within the policies and procedures.”
HUD Secretary Scott Turner wasted no time in eliminating DEI within his department.
Turner cancelled $4 million contracts associated with DEI after launching a DOGE Task Force within his department.
“It is inexcusable the American taxpayer was footing the bill for the promotion of DEI propaganda,” Turner said at the time. “Not only was this costing millions of taxpayer dollars but it was also wasting valuable time that should have been used to better serve individuals and families in rural, tribal and urban communities. DEI is dead at HUD.”
It wouldn’t surprise me if Turner tells Asheville it cannot use aid based on sex and race.
Those in most need should be at the front of the line.
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Just self-identify as a ‘VOC’… then you get three squares on the intersectionality bingo card of freebies
A Variable Of Color?
An [indoor plumbing] of color.
Asheville…this does not surprise me one bit.
Biltmore is the only bit of sanity left in Berkeley East.
True statement
Isn’t this, oh what is the word for it, “illegal”?
“This is the Swamp. This is the way it’s always been done. We do whatever we want and you can’t stop us.”
— the people whose generous salaries we pay
Lawsuit time. The rules of the game have changed.
Stop with the social credit score already.
Clearly these Municipalities and States choosing discrimination in the name of.DEI will need DoJ oversight and a pre clearance regime to be established to root out the fanatics and prevent Civil Rights violations.
Would love to see the Trump DOJ force some Consent Decrees down on them… railing them for decades. A favorite trick of the Dims. Make the enemy play by his own set of rules.
I thought we were doing away with entitlement.
A lot of people will continue to test this, there will have to be examples made before they get the message.
This sort of thing has gone on for decades. A long time ago I worked for a government contractor and when we filled out government bids we made certain to point out that we were a small and woman-owned business because that got us preferential treatment in the bidding process. We didn’t always have to be the lowest bid to win because of that.
Is there any statutory rules here or is it purely federal acquisition regulations? Not saying such a statute would be constitutional but if it’s regulations, the administration can change those. May take a while to work its way through the system but they can at least get rid of them.
Why does the mayor have say over 250 million in federal funds. That should be handled by a team form the agency.
No. Ideally, once it’s been determined how much to provide, the locals decide where it goes, as they are closest to the emergency.
But, it also means you can get some local grifting going on. It needs oversight by the local people (which is what a “free press” is ostensibly for).
This should not be a surprise. Asheville, NC is governed by and filled with far-left wokists. They want to signal their virtue loudly.
Perhaps it’s pass time to define criminal penalties for race and gender set asides. Let’s see how committed some of these city officials are when faced with 250K fines and 10 years in the pen.
That was done in 1963 wasn’t it? Something about a civil rights bill making discrimination based on race and gender??? Content of character not color…. Yeah it’s all coming back now.
I’m doubt those acts are sufficient to cover discrimination by a state or local government or the types of discrimination engendered by DEI practices. I would suggest more explicit laws be passed with heavy penalties.
The original (post-Civil War) Civil Rights Act was written specifically to make local officials, including judges, criminally liable for civil rights violations.
I only know of the act not the contents. It doesn’t seem to be used these days and certainly not against uses of DEI or affirmative action. The penalties probably need to be updated to reflect inflation.
All constitutional office holders need to be asked one question. Have you in all of your official duties supported, protected and defended the Constitution of the United States? If it can be shown that they have supported measures that supplant, erode or usurp that document then they should be found guilty of treason and punished according to the availability of municipal wood chippers in their area. Minor offenders will be offered the head first option as we don’t want to be seen as extremists.
Just have FEMA, SBA and HUD send them a joint letter that the Federal funds are for people who can trace their ancestry back to Appalachia only. 😉
They got way with the Oregon Cares Fund and they will getaway with this
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I can call BS to this. I am 1/16th Ute, Colorado Ute. I have a powerful race card and I have used it two or three times over the past 45 years because of messed up diversity crap like this.. The other 15/16ths is spread between Scottish and Angelo Saxon with heavy on the Saxon. I am the white bread with the Indian pass code who never gets a sunburn.