Federally-funded food bank prioritizes racial minorities. That could violate Civil Rights Act, lawyer claims

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The Oregon Food Bank prioritizes food and grant distribution to racial and sexual minorities. One civil liberties advocacy group believes that violates the Civil Rights Act.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture funds the Oregon Food Bank through the Oregon Department of Human Services.

It"appears to be a straightforward admission that the Oregon Food Bank is deciding whom to contract with for the food it buys based on race, along with other factors," American Civil Rights Project Executive Director Dan Morenoff told Fox News."It is extremely hard to imagine how the Oregon Food Bank’s intentional racial discrimination in contracting could be defended as consistent with the Constitutional prohibition against public racial discrimination.

 

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