Black Conservatives Praise Justices for Rejecting “Race Card” Allegations to Root Out Real Bias

Washington, D.C. - Allegations of racial discrimination in contracting must prove that bias is the sole reason for a minority company losing a deal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday. This decision frees up plaintiffs and courts to focus on true instances of discrimination, according to members of the Project 21 black leadership network.

“With this decision, the justices unanimously ruled that Americans must show that ‘race was the determining factor behind their claim’ of discrimination and not just merely one of several factors,” said Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper. “In too many instances, the mere allegation that race might have been a factor has been sufficient to impose costly legal burdens on companies and other accused defendants. This commonsense approach to contract law will ensure that more time can be spent by the courts dealing with actual instances of discrimination and less time with companies being forced to prove they didn’t.”

A lawsuit brought by media mogul Byron Allen claimed that Comcast refused to carry channels produced by his Entertainment Studios Network (ESN) on Comcast cable systems because it often rejected content from “100% African American-owned media companies.” Comcast argued that it lacked the bandwidth to include ESN channels such as JusticeCentral.TV, Comedy.TV, Pets.TV and Cars.TV and favored news programming over those channels.