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Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller. Lawsuit participants believe they are being excluded from government benefits based on race.
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“Socially disadvantaged” ancestry is necessary to qualify one as a member of a socially disadvantaged group, and as such, to qualify for certain government programs. But what does that really mean, especially for U.S. farmers? Plessy, of
Plessy v Ferguson case in 1896 in the U.S. Supreme Court was 1/8
th black but was considered black by the Louisiana government. Sen. Elizabeth Warren was recognized as native American by the Harvard Law School, but it was found she had less than 1% or 99.9 non-Indian native American blood.