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Senate Approves $4.6B for Black Farmers, Indians
Yahoo News ^ | 11/19/2010 | Yahoo News

Posted on 11/19/2010 4:36:28 PM PST by Dallas59

WASHINGTON – The Senate has approved almost $4.6 billion to settle long-standing claims brought by American Indians and black farmers against the government.

The money has been held up for months in the Senate as Democrats and Republicans squabbled over how to pay for it. The two class action lawsuits were filed over a decade ago.

The settlements include almost $1.2 billion for black farmers who say they suffered discrimination at the hands of the Agriculture Department. Also, $3.4 billion would go to Indian landowners who claim they were swindled out of royalties by the Interior Department. The legislation was approved in the Senate by voice vote Friday and sent to the House.

Elouise Cobell, a member of the Blackfeet Tribe from Browning, Mont. and the lead plaintiff in the Indian case, said Friday that it took her breath away when she found out the Senate had passed the bill. She was feeling despondent after the chamber had tried and failed to pass the legislation many times and two people who would have been beneficiaries had died on her reservation this week.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: blacks; indians; reparations
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To: traditional1
What if I'm half black and half white but my skin color is white?

Just sayin!

21 posted on 11/19/2010 4:57:52 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Dallas59

I score if I’m really well tanned. SHOW ME THE MONEY!


22 posted on 11/19/2010 4:59:33 PM PST by Libloather (Teapublican, PROUD birther, mobster, pro-lifer, anti-warmer, enemy of the state, extremist....)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...
to settle long-standing claims brought by American Indians and black farmers against the government
Thanks Dallas59.


23 posted on 11/19/2010 5:01:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: Dallas59

Well I can see settling up the treaties with the Indians, but shouldn’t the black farmers be getting an acre of land and a mule?


24 posted on 11/19/2010 5:06:33 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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To: Dallas59
For Pete's Sake!
Does anybody in this country deal with hard times, move on, and work anymore?!
25 posted on 11/19/2010 5:13:39 PM PST by ladyvet (I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: Dallas59
Your take?

Just think of the 30% Lawyer's cut.

26 posted on 11/19/2010 5:15:13 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Dallas59

>> Democrats and Republicans squabbled over how to pay for it.

My guess they agreed to use tax dollars.


27 posted on 11/19/2010 5:20:01 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: onyx

Please tell me why ANY Republican is voting ‘yes’ on ANY bill while Senator Kirk remains unseated? Of the three Senators who were to be seated immediately following the election (Manchin, Coons, and Kirk), both Democrats have been sworn in and are now voting while the one Republican watches from the sidelines while a Democrat casts votes on his behalf. Why in the hell are Republicans letting them get away with this? They’ve got 41 votes right now. Shut it down until Kirk is seated and Burris is removed.


28 posted on 11/19/2010 5:20:32 PM PST by Hoodat ( Don't touch my junk, Bro !)
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To: Gene Eric
My guess they agreed to use tax dollars.

Yeah. Of your great-grandchildren.

29 posted on 11/19/2010 5:23:40 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Free the First!)
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To: basil

I thought it was left-handed redheads...


30 posted on 11/19/2010 5:24:59 PM PST by stylin19a (Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
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To: marstegreg
how many black and or farmers could there have been?

They don't have to be farmers to collect.

This is actually a back-door reparations scam.
Most blacks collecting from this second round of payments are city and town dwellers whose closest encounter with a farm was a bucket of KFC chicken.

All they have to do to collect is say they would have liked to be farmers but never pursued it because they knew they would be discriminated against on the basis of their skin color.


31 posted on 11/19/2010 5:31:26 PM PST by Iron Munro (Save The USA. Stamp out Affirmative Action: Get the Obamas out of the White House.)
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To: unixfox
"What if I'm half black and half white but my skin color is white?"

Is your REAL last name Soetoro?

32 posted on 11/19/2010 5:37:47 PM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Iron Munro
"All they have to do to collect is say they would have liked to be farmers"

Yeah; sorta like "Judge, I was gonna buy a Lottery ticket, but....."

Any YOU WIN!

33 posted on 11/19/2010 5:40:29 PM PST by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: stylin19a

I’m ambi—I’ve got it covered both ways—LOL!


34 posted on 11/19/2010 5:44:50 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: gusopol3

this reminds me of what that negro congress woman was doing with federal funds for education....steering them to her relatives and friends..... !! discrimination by any other color....

I know why the Indians got together in this with the Negroes... to get money from the feds! The Indians have been shafted enough by Americans, both negroes and whites.... they finally figured how how politics is played...


35 posted on 11/19/2010 5:47:12 PM PST by bareford101 (For me, there is no difference in a tolerant, open mind and a cess pool. Both are open to filth.)
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To: marstegreg
"I’m a little ignorant on this subject, how many black and or farmers could there have been?"

There are numbers that prove they are claiming way more black farmers than the department of agriculture has EVER had on record as existing. Make no mistake ... this is all about reparations that could not pass any other way.

36 posted on 11/19/2010 5:48:03 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Dallas59

Why settle? Let them go to court, and then try and collect.


37 posted on 11/19/2010 5:48:40 PM PST by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandwithArizona)
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To: montag813

Because it is a payoff...they are buying votes!


38 posted on 11/19/2010 6:00:15 PM PST by ldish (Looking forward to Independence Day)
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To: Dallas59

I am an Indian Black farmer, I get double!!


39 posted on 11/19/2010 6:00:48 PM PST by Chickensoup (In the Leftist protected species hierarchy, Islamics trump Homosexuals trump Women trump Blacks)
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I say lets pass reparations. Give every poor minority a million dollars. It ends the discussion forever, and is a drop in the bucket compared to the deficit anyway.

Within 6 months, every dollar given in reparations will be spent in the economy. The recipients will be poor again, but at least it will give a temporary boost to the economy.

As Neal Boortz sais, the rich are rich because they do things that make them rich, and vice versa.


40 posted on 11/19/2010 6:31:57 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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