In the case of City of Richmond versus J.A Croson Co. in 1989 debated against a program in which the city received a percentage of minority owned contracts, which the court found illegal. It cited this reasoning because the only proof of discrimination was statistics, in which it attempted to reason as the result of historical and interpersonal reasons. It only deemed affirmative action programs acceptable if it addressed current discrimination only. The court failed to recognize that blacks were being kicked out of their positions as craftsmen and that minority owned companies had harder times meeting requirements of the state, and did not care that their poor performance may have instead been linked to environmental factors that made this inevitable. The …show more content…
Politics also are involved in this process because they have patrolled who has means to voting, and attributed meritocracy for individuals’’ success and failures, however, in reality these means rely on environmental factors such as neighborhoods and job networks. Success and failure depend on residents’ neighbors and those they are surrounded by. This racism and segregation is reinforced by collective action and ultimately, pays off in monetary value in short term time, and the locked in model shows just how unable these systems are to be restructured. The locked in model also encourages the mass population to buy a certain product just because the dominant group has, despite its efficiency and comparative value to other technologies. Racist ideas also leads to a decline in trust. Instead, developing an anticompetitive mindset about discrimination shows how economically profitable it is and has shown to be in the past, however, it also shows the unfairness and shortcuts whites use to stay at the top of the hierarchical