Amazingly, the agricultural commissioner of Texas is the one top official in my state willing to take a bold stand against racial discrimination.
Sid Miller is his name, and he proudly went to federal court in April in an effort to stop a new government aid program that he considered discriminatory against a particular disadvantaged group of agriculture producers — namely, his group: White farmers and ranchers!
Yes, Sid asserts that the program — which directs some long-overdue loan relief to Black, Latino, Native American, and other food producers who’ve been routinely and grossly discriminated against for generations by agricultural lenders — now demands that privileged Whites like him get an equal piece of the money. Continue reading.