Bush's bigotry...

Often when we hear the President champion his marxist federal education policy, he uses the phrase "soft bigotry of low expectations".

MSNBC reports:

• The Bush administration said Tuesday it would boost the number of contracts given to small and minority-owned businesses for Hurricane Katrina cleanup work, calling the amount now awarded too low.
  

Isn't this policy bigoted, in as much as it presumes that minority based businesses cannot compete in a free market bidding process to earn contracts according to meritocracy?

Will the disaster areas be better off in the long run if they are rebuilt by second-rate companies who only received contracts because of the race or gender of their owners?

• The Commerce Department, meanwhile, announced a new information center and Web site to help smaller, disadvantaged firms get information about how to competitively bid for Katrina contracts.

Also, could someone explain how these firms are disadvantaged, and who it is that prevents them from bidding competitively for these windfall contracts?