So your community was trashed by a storm, and you’re about to get all sorts of relief from the .dotfedgov.
However, because you’re a bunch of woke raacists and sexxists, your announcement concerning said relief contains the following little nugget:
“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.”
In the bad old days (say, the Obama/Biden Years), this would have got nods of approval from the issuing power.
But we no longer live in those dark times, so:
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner has decisively rejected Asheville, North Carolina’s outrageous $225 million disaster relief request.
HUD Secretary Turner condemned the city’s initial draft action plan for prioritizing assistance based on race and gender identity rather than need. “This draft action plan that the city of Asheville presented at first has elements of DEI, and that is not acceptable to HUD.
“It’s not acceptable to the President, according to his executive order to get rid of all DEI. We’re working with the city of Asheville.”
Yeah… and?
“They have been very responsive to make sure that their upcoming draft action plan is in compliance with HUD and how we give funds out according to HUD’s principles.”
HUD’s new (and proper) principles, and not the old DEI-spattered ones, that is.
MOAR like this, please.
Off on a bit of a tangent, but HUD should be very high on the list of .gov Departments to be eliminated completely. Everything it does is properly the job(s) of state and local governments.
Pretty sure I recall seeing this idea way back in P.J. O’Rourke’s seminal “Parliament of Whores” way back in like 1991 or 1992.
The government folks of Ashville, NC who wrote that proposal or money request should be fired immediately and barred from any position of responsibility. Put them on a chain gang picking up litter on the side of the road and clean up dog parks.
Western NC wasn’t getting any aid for several months because “Republican”
and FEMA had orders to avoid. So now they are going to get aid, they have to demonstrate that they are Woke, preventing the people who need relieve from getting it?
I agree with JQ.
Friendly Advice from someone that has never relied on gov’t anything.
Figure it out. No matter the obstacle, improve yourself in such a way as to be bullet proof. Anything less will be disappointing. Nobody is more responsible to you than you.
Seems to me that it’s not only a violation of HUD policy but is also ILLEGAL!
The problem is that they’ll scrap the name but retain the policy somehow. then they’ll claim they jettisoned DEI. They did the same with Critical Race Theory, Common Core etc