Yes, that's the question that is being asked in the OP: is an investor subject to the Civil Rights Act. Which, in my opinion, is quite clearly to be answered 'n

Yes, that's the question that is being asked in the OP: is an investor subject to the Civil Rights Act. Which, in my opinion, is quite clearly to be answered 'no', since an investor doesn't fall under any of the categories in the law, the interpretation guidelines or (as far as I know) in the case law. So this is basically whining by somebody who doesn't know what he's talking about. Even when you hire somebody, you can discriminate all you want, except not against a limited set of criteria such as ethnicity, gender etc. So if you decide to not hire somebody because you don't like his shoes, that's perfectly within your right (except when you can construe that the shoes are correlated to another, protected aspect. Let's say you don't hire a woman because she wears a bra and you don't like bras. That's almost certainly a violation).