Have you ever noticed that when Democrats criticize Republicans, it often seems like they’re reflecting their own actions? This kind of mirror-like projection is not uncommon, and this article highlights one such ironic situation.

In a recent move, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, a Republican, is working to eliminate race-based criteria in government contracting within the state. On Wednesday, he urged state legislators to solidify his executive order into law, which mandates that state agencies refrain from awarding contracts based on race.

In a post on social media platform X, McMaster outlined his stance on the issue.

Currently, South Carolina law mandates that all state agencies must allocate at least 10 percent of their spending to businesses owned by minorities. Additionally, the South Carolina Department of Transportation is required to ensure that at least five percent of its contract spending goes to minority-owned businesses.

McMaster wrote on X:

Today, I have ordered state agencies to halt all future spending, procurement or contract decisions that are based on race. The state laws requiring these quotas and racial set-asides are unconstitutional and discriminatory. Business with state government should be awarded based on merit and value to the taxpayer. Senate President Alexander and House Speaker Smith have agreed to lead the effort to repeal these laws when the General Assembly returns next month.

Current South Carolina law requires all state agencies to allocate a minimum of 10 percent of spending to minority-owned businesses. Moreover, South Carolina’s Department of Transportation is also required to commit a minimum of five percent of its spending for certain contracts to minority-owned businesses.  

That, my Democrat friends, is straight-up racism. 

Slice it and dice it anyway you want, Democrats, but this is yet another example of the Left’s faux utopian dream of placing so-called “equity” ahead of merit. 

Before we proceed with the story, let’s be clear: 

Everything — and I mean everything — the Democrat Party supports or opposes can be connected to the ballot box (in their minds, that is) with no more than two dots. And I’ll go as far as to suggest without exception.

Here’s more:

In his executive order, McMaster said that the state laws mandating race-based contracting “call for unlawful racial discrimination” and that they are policies that “rest on the false assumption that the solution to perceived historical wrongs is to racially discriminate against individuals in the present.”