Minority Business Registration

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    @orrinward - I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a shortage of minority owned businesses in general -- but in the design and production business there are even less. But in an agency space there are very few (client or vendor side) that make it far enough for one reason or another to have their voice heard. Women also face setbacks like these across many industries still. Some people will probably never understand what kind of currents you swim against based on age, sex, background, income. So, I can understand why you think these kind of programs feel like a hand out.

    But, trust me -- you still need a portfolio that wins agency level work. I never would have been invited to register in the first place and that was after already making it on the vendor list without it. The government requires these programs to encourage other parts of our economy and less represented groups of people to be put forward for agencies to keep their contracts with them (contracts like the census, army, navy, post office, etc). All omnicom companies have to meet a certain quota and that covers a lot of agency space. I'm sure other shareholding companies have similar programs tied to the government if they care to qualify for their contracts ever. I can break it down for you if you really want to know but it goes a whole lot deeper -- being a single black woman and business owner swimming in the same pool as many of my past employers. So many of these competitor's backgrounds and support have a very common thread and I'm not sure that's fair either.

    Your argument I suppose would apply to scholarships based on race or background. Is that wrong? I don't know. But, whenever the government is involved there are programs in place to promote equality and growth over as many communities as possible. I'll take it considering the very long term effects of oppression on women and specifically blacks in the united states surely has made a mark on my family and has a whole lot to do with progress for many people that can't be erased in just a few generations. Just take a walk through the halls of many major corporations and you can see many issues are still in play and the programs in place to counteract that and imposed by any HR department.

    @detritus yeah its weird. I thought it was kind of funny but I suppose some people could try and scam their way through this by lying. But I'm surprised my passport + state ID and/or birth certificate wasn't enough.

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