I don’t have a problem with this if USDA provides a program for black farmers. They work the land for 5 years. No interest loans. They fulfill their terms, the land is theirs. Of course, pay white farmers as their mentors so they can provide guidance to black farmers and not put them in a position to fail.
how long would it take to turn it into a wasteland?
What am I saying?
Of course it is!
That is the point.
And we will just accept it like we always do.
Yeah, I had to check if this was the US.
So who’s gonna work the farms, the people pooping in SF streets?
Wait didn’t Obama do this already and all you had to do was grow a planet to get like $30,000
There has been many farmers that inherited their farms and lost everything. Farming isn’t as easy as it sounds.
Like all giveaways, in a few short months, all the acres will be in the hands of farming corporations that work in terms of 1000s of acres.
There are many good black farmers, they wouldn’t need a program like this.
And there is a tradition of black cowboys in the West. The old west had room for everyone.
But South African policies were never needed.
Hmmm, in WA State undeveloped rural land carries no water rights and cannot be developed, not even for something as innocuous as a storage facility.
How many blacks are willing to move out and start farming?
I thought we still have the Senate. Who the hell introduced this?
They already have 32 million acres - it’s called Liberia
If you have a minute, go to the great professor Walter E. Williams’s website at walterewilliams.com. Click on Menu and then click on Gift. You will not be disappointed. It is a Proclamation if Pardon and Amnesty to All Persons of European Descent. Suitable for framing!
Mugabe in Zimbabwe. White farms redistributed. Took a country that was a net exporter of produce, and wrecked it. Murdered white farmers and families. The dems are sick.
Gonna need 800,000 mules too.
Good time to be a muleskinner.
Call it Special Order 15 (Rev 2).
Who owns the acreage now? If it is private ownership then it will have to be stolen from them. If it is public lands then it will have to be stolen from the Taxpayers.
Very Poor reporting.
What is the name and number of the bill ? Sponsor and cosponsors ? Brief extract of contents
“Transfer” from whom?
Booker, Warren, Gillibrand Announce Comprehensive Bill to Address the History of Discrimination in Federal Agricultural Policy
The Justice for Black Farmers Act will reform the U.S. Department of Agriculture and create a land grant program to encourage a new generation of Black farmers
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced landmark legislation aimed at addressing and correcting historic discrimination within the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal farm assistance and lending that has caused Black farmers to lose millions of acres of farmland and robbed Black farmers and their families of hundreds of billions of dollars of inter-generational wealth.
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Specifically, the Justice for Black Farmers Act will:
End Discrimination within USDA: The Act takes steps to once and for all end discrimination within USDA. The Act creates an independent civil rights oversight board to conduct reviews of any appeals of civil rights complaints filed against USDA, to investigate reports of discrimination within USDA, and to provide oversight of Farm Service Agency County Committees. In addition, the Act creates an Equity Commission whose responsibilities include developing recommendations to reform FSA County Committees. The Act also puts reforms in place within the USDA Office of Civil Rights, including placing a moratorium on foreclosures during the pendency of civil rights complaints.
Protect Remaining Black Farmers from Land Loss: The Act increases the funding authorization for the USDA relending program created in the 2018 Farm Bill to resolve farmland ownership and succession, or “heirs property,” issues. The Act provides funding for pro bono assistance, including legal assistance, succession planning and support for development of farmer cooperatives, to Black farmers. The Act will also create and fund a new bank to provide financing and grants to Black farmer and rancher cooperative financial institutions, and will forgive USDA debt of Black farmers who filed claims in the Pigford litigation.
Restore the Land Base Lost by Black Farmers: The Act creates a new Equitable Land Access Service within USDA to acquire farmland and provide land grants of up to 160 acres to existing and aspiring Black farmers. These land grants will allow hundreds of thousands of new Black farmers to return to the land in the next decade. To help ensure their success, these new Black farmers will be provided access to USDA operating loans and mortgages on favorable terms.
Create a Farm Conservation Corps: The Act creates a USDA program where young adults from socially disadvantaged communities will be provided with the academic, vocational and social skills necessary to pursue careers in farming and ranching. Participants in the program will be paid by USDA and will serve as on-farm apprentices at no cost to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, beginning farmers and ranchers, and organic farmers and ranchers with annual gross farm income of less than $250,000.00. Black participants who gain experience through this program will have priority for land grants.
Empower HBCUs and Advocates for Black farmers: The Act provides substantial resources to 1890s and to nonprofits who serve Black farmers so that they can provide pro bono assistance in identifying land for USDA to purchase and provide as land grants, help new Black farmers get up and running, provide farmer training, and provide other assistance including succession planning and legal assistance to Black farmers. The Act also provides new funding to HBCUs to expand their agriculture research and courses of study.
Assist All Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers: While Black farmers have suffered a unique history of discrimination, other socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers have also been harmed by discrimination. The Act substantially increases funding for USDA technical assistance and for programs such as CSP and REAP, and gives priority for these programs, as well as increased access to capital, to all socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.
Enact System Reforms to Help All Farmers and Ranchers: In order for existing Black farmers and the new Black farmers created by this bill to have a real chance to succeed and thrive, broader reforms to our broken food system must be enacted. The Justice for Black Farmers Act substantially reforms and strengthens the Packers and Stockyards Act in order to stop abusive practices by big multinational meatpacking companies and protect all family farmers and ranchers.
https://www.booker.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/JBF%20Section%20by%20Section%2011.16.20.pdf
By the usual fool suspects.
Pointless to call them names but it is all we have left.
Reason too is pointless.