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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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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: Scotsman will be Free

The debt was paid in full the minute that the first Yankee soldier dropped dead.


122 posted on 02/22/2010 10:24:43 AM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: BP2

Where is the 1.25 billion coming from, tarp?


123 posted on 02/22/2010 10:28:53 AM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

So Obama, Pelosi and her ilk aides owe the central valley farmers reparations for destroying their generations old farms?

Salazar better saddle up those reparations because farmers have lost everything and farmworkers and families are starving.

If indeed black farmers were not given loans,(which is appalling to me unless they could not afford them) then let’s give them loans now and fix their farms. We need farmers and race should not have anything to do with it.


124 posted on 02/22/2010 10:35:09 AM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

“I agree. I believe that every descendant of black slaves needs to be taxed to the hilt for the services of all the yankee soldiers who served in the War Between the States, and they must pay a big bonus to all of the descendants of yankee soldiers KIA.
Let’ see, that equals umpteen trillion. Ok. We’re even.
Adios.”

Here is an historical note, not often known.
After the civil war, the Southern Cherokee INSISTED that blacks living in the territory be given equal shares of land allotments that would be given the Cherokee. This was accomplished in a treaty with the US Government.

The people in that area (Indian Territory, Arkansas) who served for the union got NOTHING, least of all appreciation. To hear the history revisionists, you’d think everyone south of New Jersey was a slave owner.


125 posted on 02/22/2010 10:39:28 AM PST by AuntB (WE are NOT a nation of immigrants! We're a nation of Americans! http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/)
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To: AuntB

The majority of Confederate soldiers did not have slaves. Type in black confederate soldiers and you’ll find some interesting info such as approx 65,000 blacks served in the CSA, and over 13,000 saw combat.


126 posted on 02/22/2010 10:51:21 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Niuhuru; All


> This entire race has a personality disorder.

I disagree with that statement, for obvious reasons.


Charlie Smith, who died on October 5, 1979 in Barstow, Florida, at age 137 years old, was reportedly the last American slave.
That was more than 30 years ago; there is no need for Reparations.


However, there is a plethora of Race Pimps who make a living from stoking up the flames of the past as a means to create a false sense of entitlement.



127 posted on 02/22/2010 10:56:10 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: BP2

bttt


128 posted on 02/22/2010 11:05:45 AM PST by petercooper (GOP: Big Tent Party??? Not if you are a CONSERVATIVE.)
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To: blackbart.223; Fred Nerks; LucyT; Beckwith
Black nationalism to the detriment of the rest of the nation.Anyone not believe NOW that Obama is 1) Ntionalist ( black power) 2) Socialist ( take everyones money and make a BIG Government using union thugs and force of threat).

Thats Nationalist Socialist folks, another name for fascist.

Define the enemy. If not, we cannot defeat them.

129 posted on 02/22/2010 12:00:04 PM PST by Candor7 (((The effective weapons against Oba- Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA)))
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To: Candor7; All

Thats Nationalist Socialist folks, another name for fascist. Define the enemy. If not, we cannot defeat them.

The image “http://www.mosque7.org/images/mgt6.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

"The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him.
I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years."

— Louis Farrakhan, City College audience in New York

130 posted on 02/22/2010 12:20:09 PM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: lewislynn
in Zimbabwe they take the farms

Yes, but then who do they give them to?

Sounds pretty much the same to me.

131 posted on 02/22/2010 12:30:06 PM PST by Defiant (Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Nazism, fascism. Newest version: Obamunism.)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68
"Some of us have seen this comin’ for over a year now,,,"

I have seen this crap coming for most of my life.

132 posted on 02/22/2010 12:30:32 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Lazamataz
"MUST GET COFFEE."

It's not good for you. All it does is keep you awake and make you pee too much. I guess we should pass a law against it.

133 posted on 02/22/2010 12:34:18 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: BP2

Blind devotion is the most dangerous thing mankind has ever faced. History is full of such examples.


134 posted on 02/22/2010 12:51:57 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: conservativebabe

Kennedy and FDR sold us out long ago with immigration and socialism, enacting reparations and hate crime laws that are anti-white (let’s face it), this could be a tipping point in our nation. The part about hate crime laws it that they were named for a gay and a black, when 85% of hate crimes are against whites, but the NYT doesn’t notice that, obviously.

Obama is pushing us to a Zimbabwe-type state and the Liberals continue to support him in the media, although it is disasterous for everyone.

I also fear civil war could begin at some point if he keeps this up.


135 posted on 02/22/2010 1:02:11 PM PST by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: Irenic

Why can’t we say it. This is a black president, who will redistribute our incomes to the benefit his blacks constituents. Saying that does not make me a racist. Obama doing it begs me to ask is Obama the racist? Is this what he learned at the feet of that racist Wright, and the self-loathing Father Flager?


136 posted on 02/22/2010 1:11:25 PM PST by OldGoatCPO
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To: BP2

Yes, Black Powah Nationalism, as preached by Farrakhan and Rev. Wright, and whose secret purveyor is Barrak Hussein Obama, the pretend president of the United States.

Time to kick him out for criminal fraud, not born in the USA.

Look at them white farners in California, no water for them. They be black, they be washing their upper extremities with California river water.


137 posted on 02/22/2010 1:23:27 PM PST by Candor7 (((The effective weapons against Oba- Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA)))
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To: NCC-1701

Much better the Arrogent Empty Suit One. : )


138 posted on 02/22/2010 1:47:02 PM PST by Global2010 (Strange We Can Believe In)
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To: BP2

Does BO have the power to just give this money away? Does it not have to go through the congress first?


139 posted on 02/22/2010 2:32:33 PM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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To: OldGoatCPO

“Why can’t we say it.”

Conditioning. I wonder at times if these maniacs have Borderline Personality Disorder. People with this disorder are walking landmines and we have certainly been conditioned to ‘walk on eggshells’ and understnad ‘their pain.’


140 posted on 02/22/2010 3:08:59 PM PST by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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