The Supreme Court changed the rules on affirmative action — now minority small-business owners...

This past June, in two cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court ended affirmative action, which enabled colleges and universities to consider race in their admissions process. The effect of this ruling is quickly making its way into the business world, and many programs and initiatives designed to help minorities are in jeopardy.

A conservative group called America First Legal recently took action against racing giant NASCAR, claiming that the organization’s efforts to increase diversity among its drivers and pit crews is discriminatory against white men.

“NASCAR shouldn’t be picking drivers based on their race and sex, but on their ability to drive,” a representative from the organization said. “All racial discrimination is wrong, even if it is the in-vogue.”

That same group is also targeting Hello Alice, an online resource and training platform that facilitates grants for small business. The group represents a small-business owner who was denied such funding that was to be used to purchase a new truck “solely because of the amount of pigment in his skin.” In other words, no grant was awarded because the owner is white.

The Small Business Administration, which has many programs targeted toward minority-owned small businesses, was forced to briefly suspend and then amend the applications used for a popular loan program for disadvantaged businesses after a judge ruled that it was “discriminatory and presumed minority business owners were socially disadvantaged based solely on their race.”

Last month, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta blocked a grant contest operated by a venture capital fund that was geared toward minority-owned businesses, saying that it was “racially discriminatory.”

A retired economics professor, Mark Perry, has for years filed hundreds of lawsuits against universities for violating Title IX of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, accusing these institutions of reverse discrimination by sponsoring programs directly aimed at minorities and excluding all others. He has prevailed in many.