re: Democrats Ban White Farmers from Federal COVID Relief Program

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This has to be sued. This is illegal discrimination. No way this stands.

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This is literally how USDA programs for farmers are set up currently. New farmers, minority farmers, and those below the poverty level get more money and more opportunities than John Smith white guy who's been farming for 30 years.

Unfortunately, it's the result of those producers being discriminated against in the past.

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If the USSC had any balls, they'd strike this down as unconstitutional. Unfortunately, 5 are leftists and cowards and Roberts is compromised.

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Hopefully the class action suit makes it to scotus. It has to be brought before them, otherwise they’d be legislating from the bench.

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Thomas Burrell, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, a Memphis-based trade group for 21,000 members nationwide. “They can forgive their debt, start over and go back to the front of the line. They’re not asking for any more than anyone has received. They’re just asking for their share.”

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And then this little gem.

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"There has been a lot of unfair delving out of money in the past, and then we just went through four years where we were told you can't get any crop insurance because you don't have irrigation. There seems to always be some ruse or something that keeps us from getting federal funding, something that makes it harder," said retired U.S. Air Force veteran Marshall Davis, a farmer in Browntown, Alabama.

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I can assure you that crop insurance ( federally subsidized I might add) is readily available for non irrigated crops.

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Really getting sick of all this white man bad shite

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You and me both, brother. You and me both. I’m starting to consider exit plans. Don’t know how, don’t know where, but if this continues down this path, I’ll hopefull be in another country in 5 years.

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This is literally how USDA programs for farmers are set up currently. New farmers, minority farmers, and those below the poverty level get more money and more opportunities than John Smith white guy who's been farming for 30 years.

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Veterans also receive preferential treatment.

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(5) Socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher The term "socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher" means a farmer or rancher who is a member of a socially disadvantaged group.

(6) Socially disadvantaged group The term "socially disadvantaged group" means a group whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities.

(7) Veteran farmer or rancher The term "veteran farmer or rancher" means a farmer or rancher who has served in the Armed Forces (as defined in section 101(10) of title 38) and who- (A) has not operated a farm or ranch; (B) has operated a farm or ranch for not more than 10 years; or (C) is a veteran (as defined in section 101 of that title) who has first obtained status as a veteran (as so defined) during the most recent 10-year period.

(b) Farming opportunities training and outreach

The Secretary shall carry out this section to encourage and assist socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, veteran farmers and ranchers, and beginning farmers and ranchers in the ownership and operation of farms and ranches through- (1) education and training; and (2) equitable participation in all agricultural programs of the Department.

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Veterans also receive preferential treatment.

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Yeah, if they meet that definition, or are socially disadvantaged. If you've been farming since the 1990s and served in the first Gulf War, you get no special treatment in programs.