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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Affirmative Action spread into the corporate world via Federal contracting requirements mandating set asides and the auditing of your compliance with the set asides. If that disappears, it will have enormous ramifications across the corporate world and HR departments because people will no longer need to track racial data.

AA, and the subsequent MBE set aside in contracting requirements, was initially set up to promote the contracting of black owned businesses and eventually ended up being a vehicle primarily used by non black firms (mostly Asian and South Asian), so from a pragmatic perspective removing MBEs from contracting won't change much as they'll all just be considered the equivalent SBE set asides.

I do think we are in a bold new post-racial era and it needed to happen sooner or later. [/quote]

Anyone who is a small business (SB), WOSB, VOSB, MOSB should be worried. Preference was given to them with many contracts. Lots of contracting specifically created just for WOSB/VOSB/MOSB only. Without those protections and stipulations, do you think the Gov is going to award them contracts over the big guys? Pfft.

I work for a WOSB who definitely cannot compete with the big guys in our space for contracts without preference given. We'll see what happens. I have my own side consulting gig, so I'll be ok if things go to shit.   [/quote]

Many of these programs are required by statute.  All of them are in federal regulations that would need to be repealed thru notice and comment rule making.[/quote]

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