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07-22-2010, 03:00 AM
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">(Reuters) - <span style='font-size: 14pt'>Thousands of black farmers who were discriminated against by the U.S. Agriculture Department will be eligible to receive $1.25 billion in a settlement, the government said on Thursday.</span>
The settlement of the case, known as Pigford II, is contingent on Congress approving $1.15 billion for the farmers, in addition to $100 million already provided in the Farm Bill.
For decades, black farmers said they were unjustly being denied farm loans or subjected to longer waits for loan approval because of racism, and accused the USDA of not responding to their complaints.
The original Pigford lawsuit, named after North Carolina farmer Timothy Pigford, was filed against the USDA in 1997, and settled two years later when the government compensated black farmers left out of USDA loan and assistance programs.
More than 13,000 farmers able to provide proof of their claims of discrimination were awarded $50,000 each and given debt relief in a package worth more than $1 billion. </div></div> link (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61H5XD20100218)
Shirley Sherrod,s old employer writes a letter on her behalf.
They make this excellent point..
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 14pt'>We find it ironic that <span style='font-size: 17pt'>in the one hundred years of USDA’s history of discrimination,<u> not a single white person has been dismissed for discrimination,</u></span> however, <u>a Black women who is doing her job well is falsely accused of discrimination in an altered video and you decide that she can no longer do a credible and nondiscriminatory job</u> of dispensing USDA rural development programs and must resign. </span></div></div>
link (http://www.federationsoutherncoop.com/press/pr2010/july2110.htm)
Where was Fox when these 13,000 plus blacks lost their farms because of racism in the USDA?
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">(Reuters) - <span style='font-size: 14pt'>Thousands of black farmers who were discriminated against by the U.S. Agriculture Department will be eligible to receive $1.25 billion in a settlement, the government said on Thursday.</span>
The settlement of the case, known as Pigford II, is contingent on Congress approving $1.15 billion for the farmers, in addition to $100 million already provided in the Farm Bill.
For decades, black farmers said they were unjustly being denied farm loans or subjected to longer waits for loan approval because of racism, and accused the USDA of not responding to their complaints.
The original Pigford lawsuit, named after North Carolina farmer Timothy Pigford, was filed against the USDA in 1997, and settled two years later when the government compensated black farmers left out of USDA loan and assistance programs.
More than 13,000 farmers able to provide proof of their claims of discrimination were awarded $50,000 each and given debt relief in a package worth more than $1 billion. </div></div> link (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61H5XD20100218)
Shirley Sherrod,s old employer writes a letter on her behalf.
They make this excellent point..
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 14pt'>We find it ironic that <span style='font-size: 17pt'>in the one hundred years of USDA’s history of discrimination,<u> not a single white person has been dismissed for discrimination,</u></span> however, <u>a Black women who is doing her job well is falsely accused of discrimination in an altered video and you decide that she can no longer do a credible and nondiscriminatory job</u> of dispensing USDA rural development programs and must resign. </span></div></div>
link (http://www.federationsoutherncoop.com/press/pr2010/july2110.htm)
Where was Fox when these 13,000 plus blacks lost their farms because of racism in the USDA?
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