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To: blackbart.223

that’s 17800 dollars approx for each person...heck of lot of “walking around money”.


36 posted on 02/22/2010 12:51:35 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: BuckeyeTexan; OldDeckHand

I’m putting my waders on and offering a counter-point. This is not, to me, a slam dunk issue. It could in fact backfire on us if we do not have our ducks in a row.


[Just so you know, I’m not a lawyer.]

A civil rights suit is what the Civil Rights Act is all about. I agree, the constitutionality of that act probably should have required an amendment rather than legiislation. But here we are.

Farms are expensive things to run efficiently with the latest equipment. Reporting over the years has laid the groundwork for this settlement. This 1.5 billion is the kind of thing a REAL stimulus bill should

I’m not certain that this is truly “reparations”. As I understand it, this is a result of the Civil Rights Act.

Here:

Article: Black farms endangered despite suit’s settlement ...Philadelphia Tribune, The 01-08-1999 Black farms endangered despite suit’s ... Department of Agriculture has paid black farmers more than $575 million since ...
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-22425571.html - Cached
Nation’s Farms Decrease; Black Farms Nearly Gone - Google Books ResultJet - Apr 7, 1986 - 64 pages - Magazine
... Black Farms Nearly Gone While the farm crisis has a stranglehold on the ... warned that unless the policies of the US Department of Agriculture were ...
books.google.com/books?id=DLEDAAAAMBAJ... - More book results »
Black farms continue struggle for land, justice, rightsMar 30, 2005 ... Black farms continue struggle for land, justice, rights ... racist discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ...
afgen.com/black_farmers11.html - Cached
[PDF] HOMECOMING...SOMETIMES I AM HAUNTED BY RED DIRT AND CLAY BLACK ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
A 1964 study exposed how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) actively worked ... North Carolina, the number of black farms had fallen to 2498, ...
www.pbs.org/itvs/homecoming/pdfs/homecoming_history.pdf - Similar


Note, a 1964 study and a 1986 book. [But I admit they are just quick googles.]


43 posted on 02/22/2010 1:33:53 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Farah: "If [certifigate]'s been settled show us the birth certificate. Simple.")
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To: mdmathis6
that’s 17800 dollars approx for each person...heck of lot of “walking around money”.

That's a heck of a lot of Thunderbird (and Koooool-aid!)

49 posted on 02/22/2010 2:02:31 AM PST by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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