Posted on 07/30/2010 4:05:05 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The video was not edited; it was an excerpt.
Reparations by any other name.
Blacks shaking down the system as usual. Pathetic.
I would want to look into that. 'Five years of drought' sounds like the sort of excuse the Soviets used to make for why communism didn't work.
The good news is that she’ll be suing Breitbart.
The video was not edited; it was an excerpt.
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The lawsuit, if it is in fact ever filed, will be a catastrophic mistake.
Discovery is a bitch.
If anything this story illustrates the reason why government should be helping farmers at all.
Bump for later
The 90’s were a period of drought.It was not universal but was prevalent in many areas of America
Thanks for the clarification Bert.
So the Sherrod family was paid 15 million dollars for alleged infractions on land worth 9 million? Is that what this article is saying?
She is suing Andrew... this will all come out in court when he sues her for defamamtion and slander... which will probably be in the same trial.
LLS
Yah, I remember that an area in Texas had 70 straight days over 100 degrees without rain in the 90’s.
You are paying for the piggy pig pigs of Pigford
I think the issue here is that the droughts disproportionately targeted black farmers. These were discriminatory droughts. These, in fact, were “Hate Droughts.”
These droughts were so hateful, so discriminatory, that they destroyed over 80,000 of the 40,000 black farms. Without, apparently, harming one white owned farm.
Another shake down in the works...
LOL, you have a point.
As we all know, Rhodesia was Africa’s breadbasket, but when the black farmers took over, it was the start of a multi-decade ‘hate drought’ which has crushed food production ever since.
South Africa too is beginning to suffer from ‘hate droughts’ - which again only affect black-owned farms.
It’s just the most mysterious thing.
It was a smart move by Breitbart to raise the woman’s profile in order to open up the larger story. Now let’s see if he can convert.
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