A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has ruled the US Commerce Department’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) can no longer discriminate against white people.
“The MBDA advertises services exclusively for some races but not others,” Judge Mark Pittman explained in his ruling. He added that the agency’s “racial presumptions” violated the equal protection guarantees in the Fifth Amendment and that even if its work “may help alleviate” supposed “opportunity gaps” for minorities, “two wrongs do not make a right. And the MBDA’s racial presumption is a wrong.”
While the MBDA thrived under Joe Biden, who promotes race ideology strongly, it was founded decades ago under President Richard Nixon as the Office of Minority Business Enterprise.
However, Judge Pittman insisted the agency’s age was insufficient to justify its methods, stating: “If courts mean what they say when they ascribe supreme importance to constitutional rights… the federal government may not flagrantly violate such rights with impunity. The MBDA has done so for years. Time’s up.”
The case against the MBDA was brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, representing small business owners from Wisconsin, Florida, and Texas who complained the agency had rejected them for being white.
