{"id":229528,"date":"2021-03-14T08:44:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T08:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229528"},"modified":"2021-03-16T07:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T07:14:02","slug":"white-farmers-need-not-apply-4-billion-in-120-debt-relief-for-black-indigenous-hispanic-and-other-farmers-of-color-tucked-in-1-9-trillion-covid-relief-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229528","title":{"rendered":"White Farmers Need Not Apply: $4 Billion in 120% Debt Relief for “Black, Indigenous, Hispanic and Other Farmers of Color” Tucked in $1.9 Trillion COVID Relief Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Kersey \u2013 The Unz Review March 12, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

This might be a tad better than the proverbial \u201c40 acres and a Mule\u201d\u2026 tucked deep within the $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill rests an estimated $4 billion in debt relief exclusively for minority farmers.<\/p>\n

Whitey need not apply for the aid\/debt relief, as the \u201cUSDA would be obligated to pay 120% of the amount due on loans made directly to minority farmers or by private lenders through USDA loan guarantee programs. The additional 20% would cover taxes associated with debt relief.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Racial socialism is upon us. [BIDEN TO SIGN BILL WITH $4 BILLION IN DEBT RELIEF FOR MINORITY FARMERS<\/a>, Agriculture.com, March 11, 2021]<\/p>\n

With Republicans complaining of discrimination against white farmers, the House passed a coronavirus relief bill on Wednesday that would provide an estimated $4 billion in debt relief for socially disadvantaged farmers. The financial assistance comes at the end of a generation-long campaign dating from the so-called Pigford settlement of 1999, in which the USDA acknowledged decades of bias against Black farmers in its farm loan and other assistance programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Biden<\/a> said he would sign the $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill on Friday at the White House. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack<\/a> said the package, which includes $16 billion in public nutrition and agricultural aid, \u201cprovides historic debt relief to Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and other farmers of color who for generations have struggled to fully succeed due to systemic discrimination and a cycle of debt. We cannot ignore the pain and suffering that this pandemic has wrought in communities of color.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Debt relief and a related $1 billion to improve access to land, resolve \u201cheirs property\u201d issues, and provide legal aid to socially disadvantaged farmers was the largest component of the food and agriculture portion of the bill. The USDA would be obligated to pay 120% of the amount due on loans made directly to minority farmers or by private lenders through USDA loan guarantee programs. The additional 20% would cover taxes associated with debt relief, said proponents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

House Agriculture Committee chairman David Scott<\/a> said the aid was justified because of the oppression Black farmers had endured. \u201cIt is important for you to know that our Black farmers were not included in the other pieces,\u201d he said, referring to pandemic relief bills that sent $23 billion to farmers last year, almost exclusively to whites. \u201cSo we got them $4 billion just to help them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republican Reps. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin and Andrew Clyde of Georgia said it was divisive and possibly illegal to focus on socially disadvantaged farmers. \u201cWe are going to have loan forgiveness on farms based on ethnicity,\u201d said Grothman.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI will highlight the racist socially disadvantaged farmers provision,\u201d said Clyde. \u201cThis should be a clear violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and I call on the Department of Justice to investigate it if it becomes law. \u2026 Federal aid dollars should be color-blind.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Representatives passed the coronavirus bill on a party-line vote, 220-211<\/a>. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi presided over the final moments of voting and announced the results to applause and cheers in the House chamber. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the only Democrat to oppose the bill. Republicans voted uniformly against it. The Senate passed the bill last weekend on a 50-49 party-line vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe as Black farmers are facing extinction,\u201d said John Boyd of the National Black Farmers Association. \u201cWe are looking forward to swift enactment by USDA\u201d of the debt relief and assistance provisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1920, roughly one in every six farmers was Black. Today, less than 2% of U.S. farms have Black operators. Black farms are one-fourth of the size of the average U.S. farm, with smaller sales, and they are located mostly in the South. In 2007, the USDA Census of Agriculture said that a smaller portion of Black farmers than white farmers received federal farm payments and that the amount they received was half the U.S. average.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advocates say the debt relief program will begin to rectify decades of USDA discrimination against Black farmers. The USDA paid $2.2 billion under the Pigford settlements, but comparatively few of the claimants under the initial Pigford agreement received the debt relief and tax-liability offsets that were offered, along with a cash payment, under the \u201cTrack A\u201d dispute resolution process. Some $770 million was paid in individual cash awards of up to $50,000, while debt relief totaled $43.7 million, according to a 2013 Library of Congress report<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the USA, 95 percent of farmers are white<\/a>. And white individuals collectively own 98 percent of rural land in the USA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But financial support\/debt relief in the $1.9 trillion COVID bill goes solely to non-white farmers, offering 120 percent loans to minority farmers in one of the greatest examples of racial socialism yet observed in increasingly explicit Black-Run America (BRA).<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you thought \u201cracial discrimination\u201d was a thing of the past…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":229530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229538,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229528\/revisions\/229538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}