Chutzpah, thy name is Blum: Edward Jay Blum, the conservative crusader behind the Supreme Court’s invalidation of considering race as a factor in college admissions has sued The Fearless Fund, a Black-owned venture capital firm, under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 because one of its grant programs is only open to Black women.

Welcome to Bizarro World, folks, where a law that is supposed to level the playing field for Blacks now is a tool with which to exacerbate economic inequality.

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