{"id":2005058,"date":"2023-08-18T15:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-insurance-sued-by-america-first-legal-over-allegedly-racist-grants\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T19:25:06","slug":"progressive-insurance-sued-by-america-first-legal-over-allegedly-racist-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-insurance-sued-by-america-first-legal-over-allegedly-racist-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive insurance faces lawsuit for alleged racist grants by America First Legal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprogressive-insurance-sued-by-america-first-legal-over-allegedly-racist-grants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2005058&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Conservative Legal Group Sues\u2063 Progressive Insurance for Racial Discrimination<\/h2>\n<p>The conservative legal group America First Legal has filed a \u200dlawsuit\u2064 against Progressive Insurance, \u200baccusing them of racial discrimination in their\u200c grant program\u200c for small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The grant, called the 2023 Driving Small Business Forward grant, offered $25,000 grants to be used\u2064 for the \u2064purchase of \u2064a commercial vehicle. However, it was\u2062 only open to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-insurance-sued-by-america-first-legal-over-allegedly-racist-grants\/\" title=\"Progressive insurance faces lawsuit for alleged racist grants by America First Legal.\">black \u200bsmall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-restaurant-owners-want-to-play-fair-so-far-they-say-newsom-hasnt\/\" title=\"Late-night restaurant owners want to play fair. So far, they say, Newsom hasn't\">business owners<\/a><\/a>, which the class-action\u200d complaint\u2064 argues is unlawful.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAll Americans deserve\u200c to \u2064be free from\u200b racial discrimination, yet major corporations across the United States \u2063inject racial considerations \u200cinto every aspect of their business operations, employment practices, and so much more,&#8221; said Gene Hamilton, America First Legal vice president and general counsel. &#8220;As alleged in our complaint, our client \u2014 who is \u2063a small business owner fighting to create a better life for \u200dhimself \u2062and his family\u2062 \u2014 was denied a contract with Progressive that would have provided him\u2064 with $25,000 toward the purchase of \u2064a new \u2063truck solely because of \u200bthe amount\u200c of pigment in\u200d his \u200dskin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-defends-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-for-taking-money-from-citadel-wont-commit-to-recusal-in-gamestop-scandal-video\/\" title=\"Psaki Defends Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen For Taking Money From Citadel \u2013 Won\u2019t Commit to Recusal in GameStop Scandal (VIDEO)\">class action lawsuit<\/a>, filed in\u2064 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District \u2062of Ohio, argues that the grant&#8217;s limitations are illegal because \u200cit is unlawful to racially discriminate when making contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Roberts, the owner of Cleveland-based Freedom Truck Dispatch, received an email from \u200dProgressive about the grant opportunity. However, as he\u2063 filled out the grant application, he\u2062 was prompted that it was only for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/insurance-companies-reaping-benefits-from-protests-get-in-line-with-black-lives-matter\/\" title=\"Insurance Companies, Reaping Benefits from Protests, Get in Line with Black Lives Matter\">black-owned businesses<\/a>. Roberts, who is white, was \u200dtherefore ineligible to \u2063apply.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Progressive\u2019s racially-discriminatory arrangement \u2064is offensive to \u2062the American ideal, and \u2063we \u200bwill fight to vindicate his rights and \u2063the rights\u200d of all similarly situated Americans,&#8221; \u200cadded Hamilton.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Progressive had previously highlighted the\u200b grant \u200dand the 10 recipients \u200din a\u200d press release, where \u2062they celebrated their support for black\u200c business owners through the grant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Progressive, \u2062we celebrate all business owners, yet we understand Black\u200b business owners still face unique \u200dchallenges,&#8221;\u2062 said Karen Bailo, commercial lines president at Progressive Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has reached out \u200cto Progressive Insurance \u200dfor comment on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative legal group America First Legal is suing Progressive Insurance, claiming racial discrimination in their grant program for small businesses. The program, called the 2023 Driving Small Business Forward grant, exclusively offered $25,000 grants for purchasing commercial vehicles, but limited eligibility to black small business owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2005059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}