Thanks.
I know all about them. They’re the poster children for unmerited affirmative action and especially corrupt favoritism: their Santa Cruz properties were based on county approvals where they were favored over other applicants and it was proudly admitted that it was due to their ethnicity.
You approve of that?
“You approve of that?”
Of course not. I posted the NatGeo article because it accurately described the network of family-based loans that funded almost all of the South-Asian-owned small businesses (mainly motels, convenience stores, and liquor stores) with which I am familiar here in my Georgia small city. I assume that some of these enterprises received SBA loans through the 7(a) program, but none of the ones I am personally knowledgeable about did. The race-based corruption in Santa Cruz doesn’t surprise me, and there is a tradition of this in Atlanta as well.