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President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a $1.15 billion measure to fund a settlement initially reached between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers more than a decade ago. A few hundred black farmers were discriminated against a generation ago. So 40,000 black farmers today get $50 Grand each. I Heart USA.
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Are the white farmers that Shirley Sherrod discriminated against going to get the same treatment? Or the millions of college kids that get rejected because they are white?
I can guarantee you that you would not have wished to have been a farmer who was black at the time that discrimation cost them and their families for generations to come everything for which they had worked their life away. Nothing can ever make up for all the harm that was done.
Funny how many black farmers popped up faster than you can say "cash crop" when this suit came about
Suing the fed is a cottage industry nowadays.
Oh and Mike Espy the scandal plagued former Secretary of Agriculture whose tenure took place during all the so called discrimination, is now a lawyer representing some of the plaintiffs.
No conflict of interest there
I wish I were a white farmer who got subsidized during all those years that subsidies were denied to black farmers who did not get a dime. If I were (the white farmer) not only would my family have received those subsidies a generation ago and profitted from them, but I and my family would also still be receiving them today so I would have benefitted way more than any of those black farmers involved in the lawsuit.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a $1.15 billion measure to fund a settlement initially reached between the Agriculture Department and minority farmers more than a decade ago. A few hundred black farmers were discriminated against a generation ago. So 40,000 black farmers today get $50 Grand each. I Heart USA.
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Are the white farmers that Shirley Sherrod discriminated against going to get the same treatment? Or the millions of college kids that get rejected because they are white?
Cry me a river. Let's see if we can find that pacifier.
Those black farmers should be paid millions each. Blacks have been discriminated against for centuries. Good to see that under Obama, progress is in order. Inequities are being addressed for a change.
About kids getting turned down because they're white, this has never happened. They instead get turned down because MECHANISMS ARE IN PLACE TO RECOGNIZE OTHERS, and others are better qualified. For centuries, this wasn't the case.
Trying to gain sympathy by playing the race card, huh?
Please. Like Chris Rock said...there isn't a white man on the planet that would trade places with ANY black person for ANY reason whatsoever.
Maybe the poster should try playing the race card by quoting a comedian. lol
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