Chuck Darwin<p>Seven organizations the far right is targeting after the supreme court ban affecting admissions</p><p>2. Last August, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hello</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alice</span></a>, an online platform which 🌟offers grants to Black small-business owners, 🌟was<br>💥 sued by America First Legal 💥( <a href="https://c.im/tags/AFL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AFL</span></a> ), a far-right non-profit formed by the former senior Trump White House adviser <a href="https://c.im/tags/Stephen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stephen</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miller</span></a>. </p><p>The lawsuit alleges that Hello Alice’s grant program is unconstitutional, and that it should be accessible to all business owners regardless of race.</p><p>Founded in 2022 by Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz, both of whom are white, <br>Hello Alice’s grants help Black people across the country purchase commercial vehicles. <br>Nathan Roberts, a white Ohio resident who owns Freedom Truck Dispatch, a trucking dispatch company, <br>alleged that he experienced <a href="https://c.im/tags/reverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reverse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> because he was ineligible for the grants.</p><p>Roberts filed a lawsuit in August 2023 which argues that he is “suffering past and future injury in fact because he was barred from applying for this grant”.</p><p>“We think this case is meritless and sets the nation, and small businesses, back,” Hello Alice executives said in a joint statement. </p><p>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/EEOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EEOC</span></a> ) responded in February by filing an amicus brief with Hello Alice in order to give additional information relating to the case.<br>👉“Empowering employers to take voluntary measures to remedy past discrimination remains an important component of our nation’s progression toward equal employment opportunity,” the brief reads. <br>“This court should take care not to hinder such efforts.”</p><p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/12/dei-affirmative-action-far-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/1</span><span class="invisible">2/dei-affirmative-action-far-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>