Earlier this week, the leader of a medical watchdog organization called out Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of North Carolina over a racist grant program which only applied to organizations run by non-whites.
“If ever there was a bad idea, the notion that we should start to separate our country along racial lines is amongst the worst,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former associate dean for curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
The $300,000 grant program, called “Advancing Healthy Food Equity” (AHFE), disqualified any organization with a white CEO from participating, while the community directly served by the program must also not be white.
“This opportunity is specifically designed to support community-rooted organizations that are led by, serving, and accountable to American Indians, Black, Latino, other People of Color, and members of immigrant communities, to increase their ability to engage in advocacy to address the root causes of inequitable access to healthy food,” said a spokesperson for the grant in a promotional video.
Policy Change
Do No Harm’s report led to media coverage, after which the foundation issued an update on its website in which it stated that it would expand its eligibility criteria.
“Since we released this funding opportunity in early January, we have received inquiries from potential applicants and others working in the community whose work aligns with the goals of this opportunity, yet whose organizations don’t quite match all aspects of the stated eligibility criteria,” BCBS said. “After careful consideration, we have decided to expand both the number of organizations being supported by this grant funding, as well as the eligibility criteria for those seeking an award.”
According to its new criteria, the number of funded organizations is being extended from 10 to 14, the eligibility is being expanded to include a focus on rural communities, and the eligibility requirement that the organization’s CEO is a member of the community being served has also been waived.
“We are excited about this opportunity to broaden the impact of this work and look forward to partnering with many great organizations as we work together to expand access to healthy food across the state,” the foundation said.
Eatgrueldog 
Fedgov has been doing this for decades. Assigning preference for veteran-owned; disabled-owned; woman-owned; minority-owned businesses bidding on govt contracts.
Many contractors responded by putting a woman, or black or brown skinned person as head boss (only on paper).
(Typically, vets refused to participate in such schemes due to their sense of honor.)
Finding a triple dipped disabled black or brown woman (who was agreeable to be around) was a shoe-in for winning bids. Such a business could bid several factors higher than the engineer’s estimate and still be awarded contracts.
Of course its all BS. And that’s not sour grapes talking.
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“….find the root causes…” that’s easy. the target minority as a group only eats junk food, so little demand/profit in healthy offerings combined with massive losses to theft.
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Could this be why a working person cannot afford health care insurance ? These people believe they are entitled to Free Everything. The government promises it and the middle class and struggling class are forced to give at the cost of not being able to afford it themselves or be fined and your tax return being withheld. STOP PAYING TAXES, WE ARE FEEDING THE BEAST THAT ENSLAVES US. KEEP TAXES LOCAL . We should be building stronger states not the pigs in D.C.
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Talk about stepping on your dick with baseball spikes… Then these woke idiots are wondering why so many of us out here in white people country are pissed off.
Lemme guess, BCBS has an Equity Council guiding corporate strategy whose members are all minorities with advanced degrees in Gender Studies or some other equally worthless curriculum.
Also notice that there have been NO squawks from the heavily over weight with minorities DOJ or the MSM who are all to happy to bash white people at every opportunity.
White People Month for July? I’m down.
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