re: BR Metro Council Funds $300,000 “Disparity” Study of City Contracts

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Slightly more than 9 percent of City Hall's 1,115 purchase orders in 2016 went to small and minority-owned businesses, said Chief Administrative Officer Darryl Gissel. Nearly half of the East Baton Rouge Parish population is black,

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I could not give much of a frick about half the population being black. I would be somewhat interested to know what percentage of business owners are black. And I would be totally interested in not wasting my tax dollars on this dumbass study.