You may have to click on the "August 2010" link on the upper right hand side of the website to access this article. It's a fast moving website, so stories move off the front page fairly quickly.
You should find the Counterpunch article by someone that worked for Sherrod - that is also eye-opening.
Is this the Democrat’s August surprise?
Well, well, well. This might explain the hasty firing by the 0 administration upon the public airing of Shirley’s name.
Could this be why you and I and our customers have no more money to spend?
In the wedding business I have seen spending in the photography areas go down 80 to 90% in the last two to three years.
This appears to be fairly major news if I understand it correctly. It’s hard to say if I understand it correctly though, since it’s incredibly poorly-written.
Reparations.
Has the payment been halted?
ho lee crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot imagine that many of those farmers even knew about this scam being perpetrated in their names. I have to believe there is more pride in self-reliance.
Most farmers depend on God, their land, the weather and family members to harvest the fruits of their labor -NOT THE GOVERNMENT and certainly not at the expense of others.
SAVE
If I were a member of Congress I would not attach my name to, or sign onto any bill that defined any portion of the beneficiaries as “black”. Can’t we get past this BS and focus on helping “poor farmers” or farmers of these economic standards, or who have been hurt by specific natural disasters.
If a black farmer and a white farmer both have their fields flooded, do we give one of them aid, and the other not? Simply based on their skin color?
If this were a game, at this point I would mutter, “WTF”, get up and walk away.
This is crazy.
bflr
The problem is who will pursue an official inquiry, the justice dept?
Not surprised - we knew about the windfall of $13 Million, but not about the direct OBAMA connection.
0bama "got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds... In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination...The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims. But then on February 23 of this year...the USDA agreed to release...a staggering $1.25 billion."
"the person responsible for the payment of over $1.3 billion to 86,000 black farmers was.....Senator Barack Obama."
0bama = Looter Guy. He gets in, finds the bottomless till and starts distributing to his mob.
Read these for more info.....
http://www.vdare.com/misc/061106_march.htm
http://www.vdare.com/misc/080909_march.htm
They may touch on the tabloid stuff, and then only to those surrounding the president and only so far as to maintain their credibility (or so they believe).
Obama wasn’t the only senator that helped ‘em out. Grassley had his hands in it too.
Isn’t this the so called “settlement” that the Senate recently refused to fund?...and rightfully so. Rediculous!!