Posted on 11/29/2010 8:59:56 AM PST by jazusamo
(CNSNews.com) – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has “taken a number of actions to make his department more sensitive to civil rights issues,” The Hill newspaper reported on Monday.
Among other things, the department has hired a consulting firm to advise it on “diversity” matters, the newspaper reported.
And this week, Vilsack is pressing the House of Representatives to approve a Senate bill settling discrimination claims by black farmers.
As CNSNews.com reported earlier, President Obama is requesting $1.15 billion from Congress – on top of the $100 million he requested as a senator -- to settle discrimination claims by 66,000 African Americans who “farmed or attempted to farm” and were allegedly discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture between Jan. 1, 1981 and Dec. 31, 1996.
During that 16-year period, however, the number of African-American farm operators in the United States peaked at 33,000 in 1982, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. By 1992, says the Census Bureau, the number of African American farmers had fallen as low as 19,000.
As CNSNews.com also reported, the White House won’t say if the Obama administration has disciplined or will discipline USDA officials for the alleged discrimination.
Follow the money.
What’s Next????????????????????????????????????????
The only diversity program in agriculture should be crop
rotation.
1.15 BILLION of TAXPAYERS dollars because farmers that were ALLEGED to have been discriminated against?
Nonsense
This Government has gone insane.
TAX THE RICH TAX THE RICH.
Yeah right and see how many more years we have 10 percent unemployment!
These people must be stopped they are out of control.
Mo black cott’n pickers needed.
Less black basket ball players needed.
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Forty acres & the mule-—over 100 years later.
Most of these black people wouldn’t know how to even water & feed a mule.
They don’t know what forth acres looks like, either.
Since there are many hundreds more ‘black farmers’ making claims than the Organization of Black Farmers knows to exist, this is another boondoggle & a high cost to the American taxpayer.
Fraud- & Shirley Sherrod knows it.
The race-baiting shakedown continues.
Yep. “Diversity” is nothing but a race hustling scam on taxpayers.
More money for black “farmers”.
Exactly...These suits for Black, Hispanic and American Indian farmers were a huge scam to begin with, the scam has just grown.
Taking heat on sb 510?
One can only hope...
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