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Black Farmer Settlement Stripped From War Bill

07/28/2010 5:46 am 1 comment

Source: Christina Bellantoni / TalkingPointsMemo.com

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today that he is “very disappointed” that senators struck settlement funds for African-American farmers who faced discrimination from a supplemental spending bill his chamber passed earlier this year.

The funds, known at the Pigford II settlement, are intended to compensate farmers for long-standing racial discrimination they faced from USDA that, in many cases, resulted in the loss of their farms. The settlement achieved a level of publicity last week after some conservatives attempted to use the firing of Shirley Sherrod to claim that the settlement procedures had led to fraud.

Hoyer (D-MD) said the funds which are part of the government’s “moral and legal responsibility” to make up for widespread discrimination against black farmers and native Americans. He added that the settlement money is paid for. The funds were attached to an “emergency” spending measure funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The House will vote again on that bill before adjourning for the August recess.

He didn’t give details but Hoyer said lawmakers will soon revisit the farmers’ settlement money, which even House Minority Leader John Boehner said last week he supports.

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Angelica C. Head

As a potential respondent of the “Pigford Claim, I am appalled at the federal government for not awarding this money. I as a farmaer daughter also filed a claim and since then My family has been in three different shelters. When does it end? My children deserve more than this and it is as if the federal government is giving the black farmer at bay. I don't know where we will end up if this money is not released!! This great land of equality is still so demanding that not only is a generation of Black Farmers dying off and accruing debt, but we are standing fast and believing that, “We shall over come, but when and how do we get the federal government to “MAN UP” ? If they would just consider the ramification of this injustice, they would readily fund this lawsuit.

We are Americans never the less and it appears that more is done for immigrants than the soil born men and women from this so called Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. I believe the President of the United Strates should step up and demand these funds are released for this lawsuit. He is after all “The Commander in Chief of the people and this Land” . I'm convince this issue will be resolved soon. Angelica C. Head

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