Texas A&M Mandates Taxpayer Funds Be Spent on DEI-Approved Companies

Anti-White racial discrimination is policy at Texas A&M University system and other Texas institutions.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the content of their business but by the color of their skin”

or something like that.

White men in Texas who own businesses are blacklisted by government DEI favoritism as an official policy through regulations created and enforced by the Texas government. All state agencies, municipalities— possibly all governmental entities in Texas—go through a lengthy bureaucratic process, which must be followed under penalty of law, and anyone who is not a white man is given special preference in bidding on goods and services contracts.

The “Historically Underutilized Business” program is a comptroller-administrated racket designed to funnel your tax dollars into DEI approved businesses. It does not stand for “Hamsters Using Backpacks” although a program promoting that would likely be a better use of public funds.

Vendors and contractors in Texas are invited to apply to be confirmed as “HUB certified” on the basis of race (except white) or being a woman. This signs them up for free business leads and special consideration (whether they are a qualified to deliver on a project with the State or not!) and all Texans (except for white men) can access this neat program to boost their business.

Be careful who runs/owns your company though; if 51 percent of your company is owned by a white man, you can’t gain this coveted status, and it will hurt your chance of growing.

How is this legal you might ask? We’re asking ourselves the same thing.

Texas has a HUB problem.

Take for instance the Texas A&M University System, one of many state organizations that participate in this scheme, in addition to organizations like TxDOT. Texas A&M actually has a quota system for how much money must be spent with these select DEI-approved companies, and explicitly states that decision makers should discriminate in their favor “regardless of funding” for all purchases.

When searching for contractors or vendors, thousands of Texas A&M employees are provided a convenient sorting system to filter for which combination of race and sex they like the most and make sure they spend money with them to meet quotas.

If state employees decide to spend taxpayer dollars with companies that don’t have enough woke points to get HUB certification, they are required to submit paperwork proving they tried their best.

It’s unclear how this entire program is in compliance with Greg Abbot’s recent anti-DEI executive order (if it is at all).

The primary purpose of the HUB ploy—I mean program—is to ensure state agencies do not operate in a “color-blind” fashion.

There genuinely is no good reason for this program to exist, and it costs a lot of time and money to keep it up and running. Apparently coordinating it takes an army, and HUB leadership at Texas A&M alone is making well north of $100k a year to organize the shakedown, according to openthebooks.com.

Current Revolt reached out to A&M alumni, Tom Slocum who provided the following comment:

Unelected bureaucrats created and implemented marxist DEI policies while establishment Republicans who control Austin have largely sat around and allowed our taxpayer-funded universities to spend our money on enforcing racist DEI policies designed to produce outcomes that are of course based on race, not on the abilities or merit of a person.

Republican voters I speak with are not asking, they are demanding our lawmakers in Austin address the abuse of power coming from these unelected bureaucrats. The only permanent, real solution is passing comprehensive legislation outlawing all race-based discrimination in Texas, without any possible loopholes. Any violators should be subject to mandatory jail time, mandatory fines, and penalties for this law to have any real effect.

Racist policies have no place in tax-payer funded schools or government departments anywhere in America.
- Tom Slocum

Perhaps the Texas version of DOGE should take a closer look at the program.

Perhaps we need a HUB purge.