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Here it comes - Obama to Give Black Farmers $1.25B in Reparations (more redistribution)
NewsMax ^ | Sunday, 21 Feb 2010 09:55 PM | Theodore Kettle

Posted on 02/21/2010 11:25:08 PM PST by BP2


Black farmers – possibly over 70,000 of them – will get cash payments and debt relief from the federal government totaling $1.25 billion, in reparation for alleged racial discrimination suffered under the Department of Agriculture’s loan programs, the Obama Administration has agreed.


The president announced the deal on Thursday, applauding Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Eric Holder for “bringing these long-ignored claims of African American farmers to a rightful conclusion.”

The Washington Post called the settlement “part of a wider effort by Obama and senior officials to dispense with lawsuits stemming from America’s checkered civil rights legacy.”

House Majority Whip and Congressional Black Caucus member James Clyburn cheered the deal. “History has taught us to never give up when fighting for what is right,” he said in a statement. “What happened to these black farmers was wrong, and we now have the opportunity to make it right.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhousda; black; blackfarmers; impeachobama; marxism; military; obama; palin; payoff; politics; racism; redistribution; reparations; socialism; spreadingthewealth; taxdollarsatwork; vilsack; youpayforthis
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To: ComputerGuy
I guess it really is true that blacks can’t make it without handouts.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Many of the black farmers of the 60s and 70s quit farming when they started getting handouts from the feds.

101 posted on 02/22/2010 6:25:45 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: excopconservative
What are their great grandchildren going to do with the mule?
Shoot it and feed it to their pit bulls.
102 posted on 02/22/2010 6:26:00 AM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: BP2

What about black gay farmers, mmmm? Why is he ignoring them?


103 posted on 02/22/2010 6:27:25 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: BP2

>> Article: for “bringing these long-ignored claims of African American farmers to a rightful conclusion.”

In fairness to other Blacks, the rightfulness cannot be applied to farmers only.

I wonder how Black owned dealerships were run out of business in 2009.


104 posted on 02/22/2010 6:42:17 AM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: BP2

70,000 / 135,000,000 voters...

Wow, he’s shored up that 5/100 of 1% of his poll numbers...

Snickers...

Old Obama had a farm, eeeeyi, eeeyi, oh.
And on that farm he had our money...eeeyi, eeeyi, oh.
With a billion here and a billion there, here a billion, there a billion, everywhere a billion billion....

Old Obama had a farm, eeeeyi, eeeyi, oh NOoooooo...11/2010.


105 posted on 02/22/2010 6:50:07 AM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: BP2

When is he going to confiscate white family owned farms as was done in Mother Africa?


106 posted on 02/22/2010 6:56:58 AM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: BP2
Pres Obama is single-handedly setting back race relations 40 years. This man's narcissistic stupidity knows no bounds.
107 posted on 02/22/2010 6:59:05 AM PST by FourPeas ([F]or hostility is a relation and an enemy is not a total stranger. C.S. Lewis, Perelandra)
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To: Irenic
“We were always good farmers,” she said. With a little cash, the young members of her family — upwards of 90 of them — can restore the farm.

90 kids gonna live off the revenue generated by a 523 acre farm...lol...my ass unless it's a marijuana plantation

ridiculous...guess who first spoiled minorities with promised handouts?

not who u think.

108 posted on 02/22/2010 7:01:28 AM PST by wardaddy (Epic Beard Man sez: "If you think cops are pigs next time you need help call an amber lamps")
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To: Global2010
"...Ya know I am so sick of that face I would rather have wall paper of Helen...."

Oh, you would, huh? Well, here you go:


109 posted on 02/22/2010 7:04:34 AM PST by NCC-1701 (ZEROs FAVORITE SONG -- I, ME, MINE -- BY THE BEATLES)
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To: ChiMark

I think he’s crossed the “If I’m going down, I’m bringing them with me” line.


110 posted on 02/22/2010 7:09:06 AM PST by RockinRight (Obama Logic: Global Warming causes blizzards, and deficit spending balances budgets.)
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To: Balata

A measly $16k each? How many checks will be addressed to NY and Chicago?


111 posted on 02/22/2010 8:06:32 AM PST by steve8714 (If Lindsay Graham is a conservative, I am not..)
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To: BP2

If anyone’s looking for some comfort in this revelation, here it is: In a year or two at best, all that money will be worthless paper and the recipients will be right back where they started.


112 posted on 02/22/2010 8:26:55 AM PST by RWB Patriot ("Need has never produced anything. It has only been an excuse to steal from those with ablity.")
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To: Quickgun

The government should never have to pay damages in a law suit!!!! The government is always right!!!


113 posted on 02/22/2010 8:59:29 AM PST by MrRobertPlant2009
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To: MindBender26
Surrender in the fight against Black lawyers here.

I'd be surprised if more than the expected statistical number of the lawyers enriched by this class action lawsuit were black. It sounds like a typical class action lawsuit where lawyers become multi-millionaires and litigants get some pocket change.

114 posted on 02/22/2010 9:27:20 AM PST by lonevoice (If Fox News is the only outlet reporting it, did it really happen?)
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To: BP2

Speaking of agriculture, where the hell do you find classic pitchforks these days? I want a scary-looking one with 3 or 4 long slender tines.


115 posted on 02/22/2010 9:30:47 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: BP2

A conquering people typically seizes the wealth of the vanquished. Instead of a violent sack as experienced by Rome in 390 B.C. and 410 A.D. wealth transfer is being accomplished with the approval of a sick conquered people. Western Civilization is the only civilization in history to be killed by words uttered by those that do not even belong to it.


116 posted on 02/22/2010 9:36:40 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: BP2

So he’s going to make up for past racist discrimination by implementing new racist discrimination? That makes sense.


117 posted on 02/22/2010 9:37:40 AM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: ChiMark

I think that’s what he wants. He’s trying to push someone over the edge and then will hit back the minute someone lashes out.


118 posted on 02/22/2010 10:17:34 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: a fool in paradise

No, he’s just going to confiscate white family owned bank accounts.


119 posted on 02/22/2010 10:20:09 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: ComputerGuy

“I guess it really is true that blacks can’t make it without handouts”

Or whining. Whine whine whine I’m amazed they manage to make it through the day without dropping dead from their self imposed misery.


120 posted on 02/22/2010 10:22:08 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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