Posted on 12/06/2020 2:18:45 PM PST by MarvinStinson
The State of Oregon continues to defend a state program that distributes federal coronavirus relief funds to black people only — after two separate lawsuits challenged the program as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
The Oregon state legislature created the Oregon Cares Fund this summer — with nightly Black Lives Matter riots raging in Portland — to allocate $62 million in funds from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to black residents (out of $200 million in total funds). The Oregon Cares Fund website states:
"The Fund is a targeted investment in the Black community from the CARES Act Coronavirus Relief Fund. This fund is meant to provide the Black community with the resources it needs to weather the global health pandemic and consequent recession. The Oregon Cares Fund is for Black people, Black-owned businesses, and Black community based organizations."
The Oregon Legislative Counsel warned that the program might be unconstitutional, especially because the legislature had not shown evidence that past discrimination was responsible for black Oregonians’ suffering during COVID:
Under the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibits states from denying “equal protection of the laws” to individuals, state laws that classify individuals according to race or gender are subject to special scrutiny.
Article I, section 20, of the Oregon Constitution, prohibits the state from providing privileges or immunities to a class of citizens if the privileges or immunities do not apply on the same terms to all citizens.
Two federal lawsuits have been filed: one by a logging company, Great Northern Resources; and the other by a Mexican-American coffee shop owner, Maria Garcia. (For her trouble, she has been labeled as “anti-Black.”)
In a Facebook post last month, Revolucion announced its lawsuit, and was attacked by left-wing critics on social media:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Give it to those losers
Won’t improve their lives and makes the point
Change it to white people only and see how that rings
PV getting Oregon POC recipients on the record is a start.
Apparently in Oregon people are not equal. What race do you think paid the most, if not all of the taxes that funds this program. Yet we sit by and tolerate this.
I wonder if the Mexican American woman is even a citizen. Illegals can own businesses.
That’s racist!!
Sheeze. Us crackers been seeing this crap for fifty years. Trillions of dollars thrown into the ghetto all to no avail. It hasn't benefitted anybody of any race one iota. Evah.
14th amendment violated???
Maybe Oregon can give black folks their own drinking fountains and their own entrances to buildings.
Clearly violates the equal protection clause and is unconstitutional. Happy it is a Mexican organization bringing the suit to underscore that not only are whites discriminated against but now the race hustlers are in the business of choosing one people of color minority over another based exclusively on skin pigmentation.
how be we turn the funds back to the functional , TAXPAYING societal contributors who have been harmed by the covid?
it’s outrageous to allocate based on skin color, especially when population percentage is not taken into account. People are basically being paid to riot. Now this hispanic gal wants her share, because she helped the riots.
Is there anyone in Portland who isn’t after the race lottery payoff? Even the arrested and bailed are stealing the bail money as a payoff they think they deserve.
Pretty obvious, but Democrats ignore the law with complete impunity.
Yellan’s plans starting early, the lock downs are used to kill small business when this task is done they will pump our tax money into the minority communities and have them open businesses in your place. The great reset
Institutional Racism.
What % makes you black? 2% ? 10, 20?
And seats on buses.
Oreogone.
Reparations
I love it when liberals eat their own.
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