[icwhatudo]

Isn’t it funny that as soon as Asians start taking advantage of “minority set asides” that magically these set aside are ruled racist and need to be “re-worked”-LOL

Why don’t they just say “Blacks and Hispanics only” and quit playing this stupid game.

[Alberta's Child]

Good point, but it goes one step beyond that. What’s happening here is that — as I predicted a couple of years ago after listening to Bill Cosby’s shocking statements at the NAACP convention (basically it was a scathing rebuke of “black culture” in the U.S.) — the whole notion of preferential treatment for “minorities” is being called into question now that Hispanics outnumber African-Americans as the largest minority group in the U.S.

[atomicweeder]

Actually, they've been taking advantage of them for years. That's my gripe. Here in Virginia there are lots of firms started by Indian-American, or Asian-American entrepeneurs, who were born and raised in Fairfax County.

But their racial heritage allows them to get contracts that were "set aside" for disadvantaged firms.

It's an Orwellian distinction. Who is disadvantaged? The minority firm that can bid on anything? Or my white-male-owned firm that is forbidden from bidding on lots of contracts?