Thirty percent of NY State’s budget each year is earmarked for minority owned businesses. From pens and paper to construction and photography and everything in between - minorities get first crack at the state dollar. That has been $30BN a year and growing. What is interesting at a meeting at one of NY State’s outreach programs - they were asking some of the minorities to come up and address any questions they had with the program. Then a black African, right off the boat from Ghana, who had a very strong accent, rose and started asking questions about his business. I thought, why is this man getting an advantage for NY State business over every other citizen, he’s barely a citizen himself and he clearly was not ancestrally harmed by any things Americans did. Why do we owe him anything? He should have no claim on that minority set aside money, as a recent immigrant who has no so-called legacy of wrongs perpetrated against his family for centuries in America. Yet there he was, getting preference on business with the state.
Then you realize, every illegal alien from south of the border is claiming access to these fat minority set-asides, and they don’t even belong in the country! No one is stopping them.
This is another abuse!
If one emigrates legally to this country, it should be the law that they cannot participate in any set-aside minority program at any level, for life. These programs were not designed for foreigners, and they are greedily taking resources that were earmarked to help resident minorities. We don’t need foreigners to come to America to claim they were wronged by America and that we owe them something - this is insanity. If they feel that way, they should just stay where they are.
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