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The chicanery and embedded corruption in these crooks.
Now we know why Sherrod was thrown under the bus so
quickly .. and then, she threw HIM under the bus. It’s
like a circus freak show.

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As a senator, Barack Obama led the charge last year to pass a bill allowing black farmers to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. Now he is president, and his administration so far is acting like it wants the potentially budget-busting lawsuits to go away.

The change isn’t sitting well with black farmers who thought they’d get a friendlier reception from Obama after years of resistance from President George W. Bush.

“You can’t blame it on the Bush administration anymore,” said John Boyd, *snip*

“I can’t figure out for the life of me why the president wouldn’t want to implement a bill that he fought for as a U.S. senator.”

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And the dog ate my homework excuse:

“....activists like Boyd have worked for years to reopen the case because thousands of farmers missed the deadlines for participating”

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_17641.cfm

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Of course, it was a Kennedy pursuit as well ..

“The Pigford case is a complicated story, but represents how enduring discrimination is, and how long the fight has been—even in this decade—and how tireless Senator Kennedy was.

Boyd was among the farmers who actually did receive compensation from the 1999 Pigford settlement but when he realized how many other black farmers had been locked out—and were going bankrupt and losing their lands, and being denied the kind of support the USDA routinely gives white farmers—he swung into action, and has become a regular presence on the Hill, with literally thousands of meetings with Senators and members of Congress—always with the help of Senator Kennedy.

And Boyd didn’t stop at the Hill; he’s well connected in Southern black communities, and he joined the Obama campaign very early, under promises that then-candidate Obama would work rapidly to re-open Pigford if elected

—if Boyd would help get out the Southern black vote, which was considered a critical segment of the voting population—but not a slam dunk for Senator Obama.

((nice quid pro quo))

Boyd left his Virginia farm and spent weeks riding around the Deep South, in a van, campaigning with Michelle Obama—just a short while after Sen. Kennedy introduced the 2007 legislation, which, sadly, never became law.”

http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2009/08/senator-edward-m-kennedy-was-leader-in.html

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Appears the solicitations for black farmer claims is still active:

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Black Farmer Claims

If you or a family member is an African-American farmer who tried to participate in the ”Black Farmer Settlement”, but had the claim denied due to its being “late” please contact our offices immediately. Proposed new legislation may give the opportunity to have ”late Pigford” or ”late Black Farmer Settlement” claims heard.

If you are a “black farmer” who:

Farmed, or attempted to farm, between January 1, 1981 and December 31, 1996;

Applied to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) during that time period for participation in a federal farm credit or benefit program and believe that you were discriminated against on the basis of race in USDA’s response to that application;

Filed a discrimination complaint on or before July 1, 1997, regarding USDA’s treatment of such farm credit or benefit application; and

Previously submitted a late-filing request under the Pigford settlement.

Then, you may benefit from legislation pending in Washington, D.C. Please use the contact form below to see how we may be able to help you.

http://www.blackfarmerclaims.com/black-farmers-settlement/

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Jeeze .. ‘attempted to farm????’

How do you attempt to farm and incur a claim???

I truly have a hard time believing there were that many
black farmers ...86,000 ...that were left out of the loop.

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I don’t understand this Pigford index/summary site .. maybe someone can decipher.

These figures are a far piece from 86,000:

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National Statistics Regarding Pigford v. Vilsack Track A Implementation as of July 22, 2010

Prepared by the Office of the Monitor
using figures provided by the Facilitator.

Class National
%

Eligible Class Members 22,721 100%
Track A 22,551 99%
Track B 170 1% “

http://www.pigfordmonitor.org/stats/