Posted on 11/20/2020 3:38:02 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland
Earl Butz was right.
Truth hurts.
Too bad.
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.
I bet they had plenty of fertilizer.
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.
“...Earl Butz was right. Truth hurts. Too bad....”
LMAO....I remembered the name, but not who/what he was. I had to do a duckduckgo search.
Yep...he was right. No doubt about it....LOL.
How much black you gotta be? According to Ancestry.com I have me 2%. That ought to bring me at least 2 acres.
What is the legal definition of a “black farmer?”
Another example of fake statistics. The 1920 USDA census actually says "...949,889, or 14.7 per cent, by colored farmers, including 925,708 Negroes, 16,680 Indians, 6,892 Japanese, and 609 Chinese." You can read the original document here, see page 3.
So the 17% number is wrong. In order to make an accurate comparison the 2017 group should be the same as the 1920 group. Table 52 of the 2017 USDA census shows that of the 2,740,453 principal producers, 46,210 are American Indian or Alaska Native, 16,978 are Asian, 38,447 are Black or African American, 2,306 are Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, and 21,986 reported more than one race. The total is 125,927 using the same grouping as the 1920 census. Percentage wise the group is 4.6% of all farmers.
The data seems to indicate that Black farmers migrated off of their farms at a higher rate than other farmers. That isn't a surprise to anyone who has studied American history since the opportunities provided by factories in cities in the Midwest and elsewhere were better than the opportunities available to farmers in the south.
It is too bad that many jobs available to Blacks in American cities were moved to other states and countries by liberal elites. Now their solution is to offer farmland to people who lack the capital, and in many cases the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in a complex and difficult business.
The Democrats keep inventing ways to damage Black Americans.
Who needs all that. All you need to do is open your wallet wide and turn it upside down.
Title II—Black Farmer Land Grants
Sec.201.Definitions.
• “eligible Black individual” is defined as a person who—
(A) was born in the United States;
(B) is at least 21 years of age;
(C) has previously identified as Black or African American; and
(D) has at least 1 parent of African ancestry.
32 million acres of nothing
Yeh that’s going to happen. 🙄
3 years.
They know how to pile on the bullsheet.
Wonder if this isn't about the black groupies who want to set up a Jim Jones type of community like he had in Gehenna
To make it easier you can just click here.
And read Cory Booker's wacky ideas. He probably never read a history book so he has no idea why Blacks migrated from farms to urban areas like millions of other Americans did in the 1900s.
Where? South Africa?
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