For those who are unaware, the FAR (Federal Acquisitions Regulation) is the ‘bible’ that governs all government purchasing, whether its purchasing office supplies or contracting out a $100M construction program.
The FAR MANDATES that purchasing and contracting be given extreme preference towards “Woman Owned” and “Disadvantaged” small businesses.
https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52#FAR_52_219_29
Additionally, the SBA gives enormous preferential treatment to small businesses that identify as “Disadvantaged” or “Woman-Owned”.
What is a “Disadvantaged” small business? Well I’m glad you asked!
https://www.acquisition.gov/far/part-52#FAR_52_219_29
(1) There is a rebuttable presumption that the following individuals are socially disadvantaged: Black Americans; Hispanic Americans; Native Americans (Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, or enrolled members of a Federally or State recognized Indian Tribe); Asian Pacific Americans (persons with origins from Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Japan, China (including Hong Kong), Taiwan, Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Vietnam, Korea, The Philippines, U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Republic of Palau), Republic of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Samoa, Macao, Fiji, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, or Nauru); Subcontinent Asian Americans (persons with origins from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, the Maldives Islands or Nepal); and members of other groups designated from time to time by SBA according to procedures set forth at paragraph (d) of this section. Being born in a country does not, by itself, suffice to make the birth country an individual’s country of origin for purposes of being included within a designated group.
If you don’t care to read that, it literally just says “every single person except White people”.
This is the ‘systemic racism’ in our government, and it actually exists on paper that Whites and Males, and especially White Males in combination, are ordered to receive inferior treatment and preference by the government when it comes to awarding contracts, purchasing, or qualifying for special privileges when starting a small business.