Is Abbott’s DEI Ban a Hoax?

Many. People. Are. Saying. This.

Reports about the death of DEI policies in the Texas government are greatly exaggerated.

Pioneering LGBT activist Brian Harrison recently noted that Texas is likely the largest DEI funding entity in America.

While I disagree with Brian Harrison that man-on-man encounters are at the “core of freedom,” going out of your way to legalize deviant sexual behavior might be the only issue where we disagree. The DEI situation in Texas is, in fact, totally out of control.

In the name of race-based wealth redistribution, the State of Texas has institutionalized a system that explicitly excludes one demographic group from priority access to a massive slice of public-sector commerce: white males.

The Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Program—which labels anyone who is not a white male as “economically disadvantaged” (lol)—has morphed into a top-down mandate that rewards companies not based on ability or price point, but on the color of the skin and the privates in their pants.

To qualify as a HUB in Texas, your business must be owned by someone who is a woman, or a non-white man. That sounds cute and trendy—until you realize that this only serves to harm one group based on race and/or feminism.

And it’s not a toothless recommendation—this is enforced policy. Every public university, agency, and department in Texas is required to attempt to use HUBs make purchases, to aggressively report on how hard they are trying to use HUBs, and there are consequences for those who don’t try and meet their quotas.

In order to make any purchase over just a few thousand dollars, government employees must, by law, first try and solicit business from literally anyone with a business not owned by a white man.

Their options are clearly labeled for them, as referenced by the many documents online.

HUBs exist to try and compel people to give money to anyone who is not a white man, as they are all officially defined as “economically disadvantaged” by Texas Government Code § 2161.001(2). However, when you look into this program for about 2 minutes, you find this is yet another hoax bigger than Dallas.

One example that jumps off the page and slaps you in the face is SHI Governmental Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SHI International Corp. and recipient of many tens of millions of dollars in state contracts which were used by agencies to try and meet their HUB quotas. While SHI Governmental Solutions has since “graduated” from being HUB certified (lol), you can see from their vendor page that they were labeled a “small business” under HUB.

A simple google search gives you an overview of this “small business.”

The owner of both SHI companies listed on state documents is this particular “economically disadvantaged person.”

Here is the home of another HUB certified business owner—another economically disadvantaged person from the Houston area.

Did we mention not meeting your HUB quota has consequences?

In fact, under Texas Government Code §2161.005, if the State Auditor finds an agency noncompliant with HUB requirements and the issue isn’t corrected within a year, the Legislative Budget Board can order an emergency transfer of the agency’s purchasing funds to another agency. The death penalty!

It’s an openly vindictive and hateful agenda, and for some reason Texas Republicans seem very casual about passing the baton to their grandchildren with a standing government policy that discriminates against the 13% of Texas children who are white boys.

Abbott signed an executive order supposedly ending this practice in January, but like most Texas Republican moves, it is turning out to be another hoax. The program, controlling a trillion-dollar pipeline of state spending, continues unabated—still filtered entirely through the DEI lens.

But hey, at least Brian Harrison legalized gay sex.