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Glenn Grothman: “If my father's a billionaire, but my ancestry is Latin…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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Glenn Grothman Discusses Affirmative Action and Racial Categories with Expert

Published | Video Starts at 04:20

So it's not a blood quantum sort of process that they go through. They ask you how you identify. You talk about people who are at a disadvantage. If my father's a billionaire, but my ancestry is Latin American, am I considered disadvantaged? Yes. One interesting point. We just won a case against the Minority Business Development Agency and the judge in that case said that under federal law, Oprah Winfrey is disadvantaged. (04:20–04:30)

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Questions the criteria for being considered disadvantaged under current federal laws, implying that ancestry alone may qualify someone as disadvantaged.

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