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Nope, my family's American story is blue-collar Pittsburgh. We had nothing to do with slavery. Regardless, this law violates the U.S. Constitution, and anyone who says otherwise is slinging the bull.
This law doesn't violate anything. LOL. It's partially repairing what the government had already allowed. Yall look crazy calling it racist to help black people who were literally wronged by the government due to their blackness.
Are you conceding that African Americans suffered from structural racism that caused most black farmers to lose their family's properties?
You’re making the claims. Where is the proof? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Anyone can point into the past to some injustice. People really enjoy throwing around things like white privilege and they point to a hundred years ago and summarily conflate the two times as if zero progress has been made. Where is the structural racism today? Two generations ago nearly everyone was a serf without power, wealth or influence.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) now has effective policies in place to prohibit discrimination in all of its programs and activities on the basis of race, creed or color. With that being said, the USDA recently settled a long standing discrimination lawsuit by black farmers to the tune of $1.15 billion. The Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, who is an avid supporter of civil rights issues, agreed this new settlement will end a "sordid chapter in USDA history. President Obama echoed those remarks by heralding the payout as helping to bring "these long-ignored claims of African American farmers to a rightful conclusion.”
This law doesn't violate anything. LOL. It's partially repairing what the government had already allowed. Yall look crazy calling it racist to help black people who were literally wronged by the government due to their blackness.
Uh-huh. So where did you go to law school? A correspondence course with the University of Samoa, with Saul Goodman? Go Landcrabs!
You wouldn't happen to be the formerly-named desertdetroiter, would you?
Black Awareness or Black holidays are symbolic.
There are no black only colleges.
There are no black only bars
There are no black only clubs
Affirmative is not exclusive to blacks. Blacks actually get very little from affirmative action.
There are loans for white people. Matter of fact its always been easier for white people to get loans.
And black farmers have made their case about historical injustices to them. Black farmer grants is just repairing what the government allowed to be broken.
Black farmers lost over 90% of their land in the south through the use of heir's property laws, partition sales and Torrens titles. Blacks could not even gain entry into a court house much less have any money to take a claim to court to be decided by a white judge entrenched in the segregated system.
Of course that was just one tool. Dearfield CO, provides a different example. Until the dust bowl, it was a thriving Black farming community. (Yes, even CO was segregated.) When the dust bowl hit, it lost out when scarce water resources were distributed.
In VA, counties like Mecklenburg had "Black Wednesday." That was the only day of the week Black farmers could apply for a farm loan.
In short, it was systemic and when legal restrictions were not enough, there was always the Klan to terrorize Black farmers into leaving.
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