{"id":500289,"date":"2021-05-12T13:06:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=500289"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:06:20","slug":"bidens-restaurant-relief-program-excludes-white-male-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-restaurant-relief-program-excludes-white-male-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Restaurant Relief Program Excludes White Male Owners"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fbidens-restaurant-relief-program-excludes-white-male-owners%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=500289&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1251014262.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>The Biden administration is segregating restaurant owners by race in prioritizing pandemic financial aid, barring white male restaurant owners from applying to a multi-billion dollar restaurant stimulus fund for three weeks, by which time the money may run out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A lawyer said the move may be unconstitutional since the preferences are not remedying losses caused by government racial discrimination, but rather offsetting losses from a virus that ravaged the industry as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a $28.6 billion pandemic fund targeted at the hard-hit restaurant industry, was approved this year in Democrats\u2019 $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill and began accepting applications from restaurants around the country on May 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The fund is experiencing extremely high demand, but the Small Business Administration (SBA) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba.gov\/funding-programs\/loans\/covid-19-relief-options\/restaurant-revitalization-fund\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> it will initially only select applications from restaurants and other eligible small businesses that are at least 51 percent owned<\/span> <span>by \u201cwomen, veterans, or socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Socially disadvantaged individuals are defined as \u201cthose who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity.\u201d Economically disadvantaged individuals are defined as a subset of socially disadvantaged individuals \u201cwhose ability to compete in the free enterprise system has been impaired due to diminished capital and credit opportunities as compared to others in the same business area who are not socially disadvantaged.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some industry experts expect the $28.6 billion fund could run out before the initial 21 days are up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The National Restaurant Association expressed concern that the demand for relief is so high that the money would be depleted \u201cin a matter of weeks \u2014 possibly only a few.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe will continue to work with the SBA and our members to ensure the application process goes smoothly, even as we\u2019re alerting Congress to our concerns about the limits of the current funds,\u201d Sean Kennedy, the association\u2019s executive vice president for public affairs, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantdive.com\/news\/286b-restaurant-relief-fund-has-a-cash-shortage-problem\/598452\/\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Restaurant Dive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The program will not be able to grant aid to all eligible restaurants, Patrick Kelley, associate administrator for the SBA\u2019s Office of Capital Access, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QeSTwcVKVcY\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> the Independent Restaurant Coalition last week. He recommended that owners apply on the first day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Over the first two days of the program, 186,200 restaurants in all 50 states applied for relief. Of those, 97,600 were businesses owned by women, veterans, or \u201csocially and economically disadvantaged individuals,\u201d the White House said in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/05\/05\/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administration-supports-hard-hit-restaurants-and-bars\/\"><span>fact sheet<\/span><\/a><span>. Some of the country\u2019s smallest restaurants applied for aid, including 61,700 businesses with under $500,000 in annual pre-pandemic revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hans Bader, a longtime civil rights lawyer who worked in the federal Office for Civil Rights, said prioritizing minority groups in a broad manner, as the program does, is unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTo legally give minority groups a preference in an area, the government has to be seeking to remedy the present effects of its own past discrimination against those particular minority groups, in the area where they are being given a preference,\u201d Bader told the Daily Wire, adding that the government discrimination must also be \u201crecent\u201d and \u201cwidespread.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In this case, the American Rescue Plan, which launched the restaurant aid program, did not make any such finding that all minority-owned restaurants have been recently discriminated against by the federal government. A federal appeals court ruled nearly three decades ago that discrimination even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/brunet-v-city-of-columbus-3\"><span>14 years<\/span><\/a><span> old is too old to justify affirmative action and that isolated instances of discrimination <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casetext.com\/case\/middleton-v-the-city-of-flint-michigan\"><span>do not justify<\/span><\/a><span> a racial preference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition, Bader said, the Supreme Court has ruled that \u201csocietal discrimination\u201d is not a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/488\/469\/\"><span>valid reason<\/span><\/a><span> for the government prioritizing a particular group \u2014 only government discrimination can be cited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Furthermore, women and minorities do not appear to be severely underrepresented in the restaurant industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The National Restaurant Association has said that the majority of restaurants were either owned or co-owned by women. \u201cThere are more women in restaurant management and ownership positions than virtually any other industry,\u201d its CEO, Dawn Sweeney, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171224021753\/http:\/\/www.restaurant.org\/News-Research\/News\/What-impact-do-women-have-on-the-restaurant-indust\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBetween 2007 and 2012, the number of Hispanic-owned restaurant businesses increased 51 percent, African American-owned restaurant businesses increased 49 percent, and the number of Asian-owned restaurants rose 18 percent,\u201d the group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/restaurant.org\/restaurant-careers\/diversity\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is not a white old-boy network, compared to most industries, so even if affirmative action were justified in other industries, it\u2019s not in the restaurant industry,\u201d Bader said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The SBA did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In another twist, Asian-Americans are included in \u201csocially disadvantaged individuals,\u201d while elsewhere Asian-Americans have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/fewer-asians-need-apply-14180.html\"><span>filed<\/span><\/a><span> lawsuits alleging anti-Asian prejudice at elite universities due to their academic success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One restaurant owner, Eric Nelson, owner of Crudo Nudo in Norfolk, Virginia, did not qualify for the priority period and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilotonline.com\/food-drink\/vp-db-prem-restaurant-revitalization-fund-grants-hampton-roads-20210508-rcd6jsok2fhe5mxswyxc5hha7q-story.html\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> the Virginia-Pilot that he is \u201cdefinitely wondering if there will be money after the 21 days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat money will go to past due rent, bills, unpaid invoices, and keeping the employees paid. \u2026 It\u2019s going to help get us back on our feet,\u201d he told the paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is segregating restaurant owners by race in prioritizing pandemic financial aid, barring white male restaurant owners from applying to a multi-billion dollar restaurant stimulus fund for three &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277924,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1251014262.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden\u2019s Restaurant Relief Program Excludes White Male Owners","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1251014262.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden\u2019s Restaurant Relief Program Excludes White Male Owners","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500289","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=500289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}