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The Dade County School Board told a computer consulting firm, equally
owned by a black and a Hispanic, that it was not a minority-owned
business. In the county's definition, a business can qualify as
minority owned only if one minority group controls 51 percent of its
assets. Because Charles Duval, a black man originally from the
Caribbean, and Paul Raifaizen, who came to the U.S. from Argentina,
each own 50 percent of Data Industries, the company was ruled
ineligible.
Henry Fraind, spokesman for the School Board, says he sympathizes with
Data Industries, but insists that "a rule is a rule, and our rule
says that there must be 51 percent ownership by one principal minority
group." "We're just trying to preserve the integrity of the
system," he says, explaining that the county wants a "clear-cut"
owner to avoid having minority businesses "sell out to white males."
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