Black Group: Taking part in the sport.

(ThyBlackMan.com) The tragically named American Alliance For Equal Rights succeeded in getting its fellow vacationers on the Supreme Court docket to strike down affirmative motion – however solely the type that advantages Black People. If anybody thought that the group’s founder, Edward Blum, was going to relaxation after this non permanent victory, they’ve formally been disabused of that naïve notion.

Take into account the next: There’s a Black-owned enterprise capital agency, Fearless Fund, that has invested roughly $27 million in 40 corporations which might be owned by ladies of coloration – together with the well-known Slutty Vegan franchise. Launched 4 years in the past, Fearless Fund has additionally awarded almost $4 million in grants.

The enterprise capital market totaled roughly $216 billion in 2022. Based on analysis co-conducted by Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Prepare dinner, just one% of such funding goes to Black- and Hispanic-owned corporations. Arian Simone, co-founder of Fearless Fund, said that it will take billions of {dollars} simply to get that quantity to 2%. But, even 1% of enterprise capital funds going to Black and Hispanic small companies is an excessive amount of for Blum and his ilk. They’ve sued – sure, sued – Fearless Fund for “racial discrimination”.

It’s no accident that Blum goes after a small, Black-owned agency. The authorized technique is straightforward. With fewer monetary assets at its disposal, Fearless Fund presumably would put up much less of a battle than an even bigger firm. Blum is actually banking on the notion that he can get legal guidelines modified on a budget. Fortuitously, a number of distinguished Black attorneys have stepped as much as work with Fearless Fund.

Blum’s actions can solely be described as – and I don’t use this time period haphazardly – sick. I genuinely tried to establish a extra applicable adjective; I couldn’t. It’s sick to faux to battle racial discrimination by combating the treatments that have been created to fight precise racial discrimination. It’s akin to claiming to battle sexual assault by attacking victims of sexual assault. It isn’t dangerous sufficient that the efforts to foster racial equality are comparatively few and customarily insufficient; Blum is combating like hell to make sure that even these go away. In his twisted worldview, the one manner to make sure “racial equality” is for Black folks to stay stranded on the backside of the financial barrel.

I’ve a easy resolution to blunt the assaults from these, like Blum, who wish to extend the legacy of apartheid in America: Black folks ought to cease saying that our packages are for Black folks – with out really altering the packages. What do I imply? For the final a number of many years, nearly each Black particular person has heard some model of the next: “You folks have BET, the Miss Black America Pageant, Black Historical past Month, and so on. What if we (i.e., white folks) had a White Historical past Month or White Leisure Tv??”

The reply is straightforward. All twelve months (together with February) are “White Historical past Month”. Practically each community (particularly Fox Information) is “White Leisure Tv”. The Wall Road Journal is, primarily, a newspaper for white folks. The distinction is that almost all white individuals are sensible sufficient to not name consideration to the truth that their companies exist primarily to serve white folks. (I’m reminded of Eddie Murphy’s hilarious SNL skit from a number of years in the past.) Those that complain so passionately about Black variations of such establishments appear to overlook that they have been created in response to us being excluded from the white variations.

Black-owned entities ought to maintain doing what they’re doing, however merely cease labeling their actions as being for Blacks. (This tactic has labored, in reverse, for Rolling Stone journal for many years.) What would occur? Nicely, if Blum and the opposite defenders of apartheid sued Fearless Fund beneath these modified circumstances, it will set off a flood of lawsuits towards white-owned enterprise capital corporations. As an alternative of taking a look at racial labels, the courts could be pressured to rule on outcomes which have a disparate racial impression. These are authorized fights that I might welcome.

For instance, I envision Blum railing towards “ethnically-based scholarships”, solely to have the protection workforce level out that almost all of ethnically-based scholarships are for college students of European descent. His argument could be self-defeating. Talking of which, the truth that he isn’t going after scholarships for European People is robust proof that he’s solely involved about “racial discrimination” when the beneficiaries are Black.

Blum is lower from the identical fabric as Richard Spencer, Stephen Miller, Charlie Kirk, and Steve Bannon. The one distinction is that the latter are specific of their advocacy of anti-Black racism. It’s the modern-day equal of the KKK (i.e., Spencer, et al) being overtly racist whereas “white residents councils” or the John Birch Society (i.e., Blum) are the sanitized model.

I drastically anticipate the interminable fights forward – and there are positive to be many. But, victory by no means tastes so candy as when it’s hard-won. We won’t relaxation till “justice (runs) down like waters, and righteousness like a may stream”.

Written by Larry Smith