Posted on 05/19/2010 11:30:18 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Mecklenburg County, Virginia (CNN) -- On his southern Virginia farm on a recent warm Saturday, John Boyd Jr. needs a dose of rain before he can plant soybeans.
More than 200 miles away in Washington, Boyd has a bigger problem on his hands. President Obama has promised to help black farmers who have not received the $1.25 billion settlement owed to them after years of being denied government farm loans and support from federal programs because of the color of their skin.
"This is not about us complaining, this is about the government not doing what they promised they were going to do time and time again," Boyd said.
The 1997 case against the U.S. Agriculture Department, Pigford v. Glickman, was settled out of court 11 years ago but tens of thousands of farmers missed the filing deadline to submit claims.
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Know Justice, know beans..
Gimme Gimme ! ...I was too stupid to file on time.
They want loans that would have needed to be repaid long ago? That should be easy enough. Here is your loan and here is your repayment from that loan.
Whoops. Sit down and shut up.
Blacks filing suit against Glickman was sort of like having a license to steal.
Lemme guess...they’re outraged, too...right?
EEO thy name is stealth reparaitions. Gee looks like Zero needs to hold on to the money guys. A billion and quarter is just too much ya understand we gotta all share the pain for hope and change.
My message to black farmers: get off your @ss, get your hand out of my pocket and back on the plow.
Yeah, and we’ll even toss out the interest as a goodwill gesture!!
Just like Tom Daschle.
I’m not reading yet another article on this. Does this article at least mention how there are suddenly thousands of black farmers that weren’t decidely black farmers then.....and that’s why they missed the deadline? So, now even more money is going to be dolled out to people that were never affected by the “discrimination” during the referenced time period?
I remember now they paid out thousands of fraudulent claims. So go get the money from yur Bros - Dept of Ag aint got yo money
According to the story, racism can be a good thing if it is used to make even for racism.
Response: Translation: waiting for taxpayer funds.
Yeesh. What a eulogy. So the message they want to get across about this man at his funeral--the summation of his life--is that he never got his government handout?
Is this a joke? They’ve gotten at least two “reparations” that I know of.
I wish I could find the WSJ article showing what a sham this lawsuit is. I can’t find it!
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