Procurement Law Returns to the Federal Government

At last, the “drought” is over. Procurement laws as it relates to affirmative action and diversity in the business operations of the federal government were abandoned during the second Clinton Administration and with silence by the Congressional Black Caucus. During the Bush years there was no hope to enforce what Adam Clayton Powell, Arthur Fletcher and Parren J. Mitchell wrote on behalf of African Americans and America as a whole. Adam, Art and Parren’s accomplishments came back in the day and no other has stepped forward to provide anything significant or comparable.  It seemed that it didn’t matter, Democrat or Republican, political correctness was against minority business. We languished and progress was not only stopped but put in reverse. But now there is a “new sheriff in town” and the seriousness of business diversity and its applications to the general society are again taken seriously.

View full article at the National Black Chamber of Commerce.