The Daily Signal Reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation is offering a three-year, $300,000 grant to advance “healthy food equity,” but many organizations that work to expand access to healthy food in minority populations need not apply.

Indeed, some organizations that employ a majority nonwhite staff and have a majority-nonwhite board of directors automatically are disqualified from the grant.

Yes, an organization dedicated to “food equity” that employs mostly black, Latino, and other racial minorities and has a majority-minority leadership can’t get the grant if its CEO is considered white.

This isn’t some claim critics are making about the grant, either—it comes directly from the horse’s mouth, from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina itself.

“We have received questions about eligibility from organizations that have a majority people of color staff, and staff leadership, and white CEO,” a foundation representative said in a “Healthy Food Equity” webinar Feb. 2. “So given the spirit of this opportunity Sheila and I shared earlier, these organizations are not eligible for this particular opportunity.”