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White farmers sue U.S. government over stimulus for black farmers...........
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You was lauding the black farmer shit as something biden did for black people
No we told you so, when y'all like to pretend that the government can do whatever it wants and not be challenged in court. This as of now is temporary and doesn't mean that those farmers won't get their money.
It was a conservative judge that stopped it by the way. I know national elections don't matter for us, so y'all say, and feel free to bash the GOP for fighting this to the bitter end.
How did the dems keep this from happening?
You still stuck in the system with no way out. I don't care bout the political theater. The end result will be similar to how it usually ends up. Minorities people of color etc..black farmers will get very little if anything
Just cant seem to attack the GOP who are the SOLE reason this stalled.
its a federal court case dude.it is what it is
Judge suspends debt relief program for farmers of color after conservative law firm, white farmers sue Biden
A federal judge halted payments for a loan forgiveness program that provides relief to agricultural producers of color.
A temporary restraining order was handed down Thursday afternoon by Judge William Griesbach of Wisconsin's Eastern District, in response to a lawsuit filed by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty in April.
The group alleged that the Biden administration used an unconstitutional program in an effort to end systemic racism and should make the relief available to white farmers, too.
"The Court recognized that the federal government’s plan to condition and allocate benefits on the basis of race raises grave constitutional concerns and threatens our clients with irreparable harm, said Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel for WILL. "The Biden administration is radically undermining bedrock principles of equality under the law.”
The group is representing 12 farmers, two of whom live in Wisconsin. Calumet County dairy farmer Adam Faust, who farms with both legs amputated after being born with spina bifida, and Christopher Baird, who owns a dairy farm near Ferryville in Crawford County.
Faust said at the time the lawsuit was filed that the economic impact didn't hurt any one race more than another in agriculture.
"There should absolutely be no federal dollars going anywhere just based on race," he said.
The group is also representing farmers from Minnesota, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Oregon and Kentucky.
The plaintiffs allege that because race discrimination is barred under the U.S. Constitution, the federal government "must prove that its discriminatory benefit is narrowly tailored and serves a compelling government interest."
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In the suit, WILL asked that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Zach Ducheneaux, administrator of the Farm Service Agency, not consider race when determining recipients of the relief funds.
Since the filing of the lawsuit, the U.S. Department of Agriculture officials have continued to implement the program and is currently reviewing what the restraining order means for the program.
"We respectfully disagree with this temporary order and USDA will continue to forcefully defend our ability to carry out this act of Congress and deliver debt relief to socially disadvantaged borrowers," said a USDA spokesperson. "When the temporary order is lifted, USDA will be prepared to provide the debt relief authorized by Congress.”
The Biden administration created the loan forgiveness program for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers earlier this year under the American Rescue Plan Act. The program paid up to 120% of direct or guaranteed farm loan balances for producers who are Black, American Indian or Alaskan native, Hispanic or Latino, and Asian American or Pacific Islander.
Officials said that they recognized those groups of farmers and ranchers faced systemic discrimination, resulting in cumulative effects that have led to a substantial loss in the number of socially disadvantaged producers, reduced the amount of farmland they control and contributed to a cycle of debt, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, among other consequences.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, socially disadvantaged communities also saw higher rates of infections, hospitalizations, death, loss of property and economic hurt, officials said.
Currently, 17,000 farmers and ranchers qualify for the assistance, from all 50 states.
Judge suspends debt relief program for farmers of color after conservative law firm, white farmers sue Biden
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and white farmers from across the country sued in April for its debt relief program for farmers of color.
www.jsonline.com
soo according to you guys...biden is suing himself???
White people in 2021 are still activeoy fighting to take food out of the mouths of black children.
That's an even bigger joke
This same USDA
How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against Black farmers
The agency promoted a narrative that falsely inflated its record on civil rights—and ultimately cost black farmers land, money, and agency.
thecounter.org
The latter. Just white people in general. Always a fucking victim!
The same ados fags that are in here talking about how could this happen are the same losers who are telling you not to vote. They also telling you that both sides are the same. These dumb motherfukers will tell you not to vote but your vote decides who goes into government and who appoints federal judges.
this is a textbook example of how problack legislation can easily get blown up if folks don't keep voting in all elections.
How does voting affect the USDA and their racism?
You cant be serious.
Remember when people were telling us that Trump wasnt doing anything to harm Black peeps?
We told them watch how many and what types of conservative judges he's appointing?
Yeah I dont hate to say I told you so.
Voting effects the USDA and their racism because right now you have an Administration that is actually trying to makes somewhat of an amends for that because people voted them in to power. Voting also affected it because a federal judge stop the payout and depending on who the federal judge is and who appointed him that is a big reason why they would stop it. Additionally this can potentially go to the Supreme Court and we all know voting dictates who gets to appoint SC judges.
However as I said in that other thread you don't really give a shit about any of that because your job is to just be a Chaos Agent. You little bitch ass who's always claiming how evil capitalism is was on here co-signing a dude who was posting up articles from The Blaze, the same group that says socialism is the root of all evil.
This all day!!!
And Them same goofballs were going from thread to thread saying what the black farmers were getting nothing but “crumbs.” Well if they’re getting nothing but crumbs then why are the white supremacist so up in arms about it? Smh
Thank you. I didn't have the energy to teach a a lesson on government and why voting is important.
You said a bunch of nothing. I asked you about the USDA and you went to your talking point about the judges that were voted in. If you actually read the article you would know this issue started way before Trump and republican appointments. I'll leave this part here and allow you to actually attempt to do ya own research but you won't.
What emerged is the clearest depiction to date of USDA’s civil rights record under the Obama administration, one that makes it clear that—despite changes in rhetoric—Black farmers faced the same challenges under Obama that they did under Bush. Yet Vilsack’s claims, backed by an array of manipulated statistics and pushed by a savvy public relations team, became widely accepted myths. These myths obscured the ways the department continued to discriminate against Black farmers throughout the Obama years. They depicted a renaissance that didn’t exist.
How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against Black farmers
The agency promoted a narrative that falsely inflated its record on civil rights—and ultimately cost black farmers land, money, and agency.
thecounter.org
Teach yourself a lesson on reading
If you actually READ dude's response, he literally said that the current administration is TRYING to make some effort to correct some of shit that was done in the past.
RIF
In obama'd past
Still waiting for your faggot ass to explain how someone like you, on here saying how capitalism hurts Black people, was cosigning another person on here using The Blaze as a source??
Look at this point we already know you a troll, you not convincing anyone on here to take your seriously.
Lawsuit challenges restaurant aid priority to women, minorities
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www.fox17.com
Federal judge halts Black farmers’ debt-relief program in new legal blow
Black and other minority farmers were dealt a new legal blow Wednesday when Florida federal court issued a preliminary injunction halting a key part of the Biden federal stimulus relief package that forgave agricultural debts of farmers of color.
www.seattletimes.com
WASHINGTON — Black and other minority farmers were dealt a new legal blow on Wednesday when a Florida federal court issued a preliminary injunction halting a key part of the Biden administration’s federal stimulus relief package that forgave agricultural debts to farmers of color.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Morales_Howard) on Wednesday halted loan forgiveness payments and debt relief for disadvantaged farmers anywhere in the United States, according to the Middle District Court of Florida ruling. The lawsuit was filed by White farmer Scott Wynn of Jennings, Fla., who also has farm loans and has faced financial hardship during the pandemic. He said the debt relief program discriminates against him by race.
Judge Howard wrote that in crafting this debt program benefiting farmers based on race that “Congress also must heed its obligation to do away with governmentally imposed discrimination based on race.” She added that “it appears that in adopting Section 1005’s strict race-based debt relief remedy Congress moved with great speed to address the history of discrimination, but did not move with great care.”
Yet, Howard also made clear that the U.S. Department of Agriculture could continue to prepare to deliver the debt relief until the debt relief program is found to be “constitutionally permissible.”
The debt forgiveness program is part of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, and from the moment the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched the program, it’s faced assault in the courts. Approximately $4 billion was slated to go to disadvantaged farmers, primarily for debt relief, but also for grants, training and education.
The program was already temporarily on hold, due to a separate restraining order in a case by a White farmer in Wisconsin. However, even if that Wisconsin order is reconsidered or even reversed in July, when a ruling is expected, this new nationwide injunction would still keep the program on hold for some time to come.
The Florida case is considered the first nationwide preliminary injunction, said lawyers for the group Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed the lawsuit in May.
“This program is discriminatory because it bases eligibility for loan forgiveness solely on the basis of being a member of a minority group, regardless of your circumstances,” Wen Fa, an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation said Wednesday. “If you’re a White farmer, regardless of your circumstances, you are categorically ineligible.”
A request for comment from USDA was not immediately returned.
Black farmer groups have talked about the money as a form of reparations for African Americans who have suffered a long history of racial oppression (about a quarter of disadvantaged farmers are Black).
Black farmers in America have lost more than 12 million acres of farmland over the past century, a result of what agricultural experts and advocates for Black farmers say is a combination of systemic racism, biased government policy, and social and business practices that have denied African Americans equitable access to markets.
Corey Lea, a beef and pork rancher in Murfreesboro, Tenn., who advocates for Black farmers, has said the debt relief program is fair. “White farmers received nearly $9.7 billion in pandemic relief in October of 2020 and socially disadvantaged farmers received less than 1 percent of that money,” he said.
In the Florida case, Wynn argues that as a farmer of sweet potatoes, corn and cattle, he was hit hard by the pandemic, reducing his income, which mostly went to pay federal farm loans. He filed the lawsuit because he was not allowed to apply for debt forgiveness because he is White.
The debt cancellation provisions in the American Rescue Plan were inspired by legislation called the Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2021, said Tracy McCurty, executive director of the Black Belt Justice Center, a group that works with Black farmers. That bill provided debt cancellation, federal and state tax relief, and the return of offsets to Black farmers who participated in what she said were disastrous racial discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, which “left the vast majority of Black farmers, over 22,000, in unconscionable debt, threat of foreclosure, and no legal recourse to save their family farms.”
John Boyd, a fourth-generation farmer and president of the National Black Farmers Association who has been working for Black farmer reparations for decades, said that the Florida federal court has left open the door to change its mind but has strongly suggested it wouldn’t.
“I am very disappointed to read this Florida decision,” Boyd said by email.
Federal judge halts Black farmers’ debt-relief program in new legal blow
Black and other minority farmers were dealt a new legal blow Wednesday when Florida federal court issued a preliminary injunction halting a key part of the Biden federal stimulus relief package that forgave agricultural debts of farmers of color.
WASHINGTON — Black and other minority farmers were dealt a new legal blow on Wednesday when a Florida federal court issued a preliminary injunction halting a key part of the Biden administration’s federal stimulus relief package that forgave agricultural debts to farmers of color.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Morales_Howard) on Wednesday halted loan forgiveness payments and debt relief for disadvantaged farmers anywhere in the United States, according to the Middle District Court of Florida ruling. The lawsuit was filed by White farmer Scott Wynn of Jennings, Fla., who also has farm loans and has faced financial hardship during the pandemic. He said the debt relief program discriminates against him by race.
Judge Howard wrote that in crafting this debt program benefiting farmers based on race that “Congress also must heed its obligation to do away with governmentally imposed discrimination based on race.” She added that “it appears that in adopting Section 1005’s strict race-based debt relief remedy Congress moved with great speed to address the history of discrimination, but did not move with great care.”
Yet, Howard also made clear that the U.S. Department of Agriculture could continue to prepare to deliver the debt relief until the debt relief program is found to be “constitutionally permissible.”
The debt forgiveness program is part of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, and from the moment the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched the program, it’s faced assault in the courts. Approximately $4 billion was slated to go to disadvantaged farmers, primarily for debt relief, but also for grants, training and education.
The program was already temporarily on hold, due to a separate restraining order in a case by a White farmer in Wisconsin. However, even if that Wisconsin order is reconsidered or even reversed in July, when a ruling is expected, this new nationwide injunction would still keep the program on hold for some time to come.
The Florida case is considered the first nationwide preliminary injunction, said lawyers for the group Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed the lawsuit in May.
“This program is discriminatory because it bases eligibility for loan forgiveness solely on the basis of being a member of a minority group, regardless of your circumstances,” Wen Fa, an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation said Wednesday. “If you’re a White farmer, regardless of your circumstances, you are categorically ineligible.”
A request for comment from USDA was not immediately returned.
Black farmer groups have talked about the money as a form of reparations for African Americans who have suffered a long history of racial oppression (about a quarter of disadvantaged farmers are Black).
Black farmers in America have lost more than 12 million acres of farmland over the past century, a result of what agricultural experts and advocates for Black farmers say is a combination of systemic racism, biased government policy, and social and business practices that have denied African Americans equitable access to markets.
Corey Lea, a beef and pork rancher in Murfreesboro, Tenn., who advocates for Black farmers, has said the debt relief program is fair. “White farmers received nearly $9.7 billion in pandemic relief in October of 2020 and socially disadvantaged farmers received less than 1 percent of that money,” he said.
In the Florida case, Wynn argues that as a farmer of sweet potatoes, corn and cattle, he was hit hard by the pandemic, reducing his income, which mostly went to pay federal farm loans. He filed the lawsuit because he was not allowed to apply for debt forgiveness because he is White.
The debt cancellation provisions in the American Rescue Plan were inspired by legislation called the Justice for Black Farmers Act of 2021, said Tracy McCurty, executive director of the Black Belt Justice Center, a group that works with Black farmers. That bill provided debt cancellation, federal and state tax relief, and the return of offsets to Black farmers who participated in what she said were disastrous racial discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, which “left the vast majority of Black farmers, over 22,000, in unconscionable debt, threat of foreclosure, and no legal recourse to save their family farms.”
John Boyd, a fourth-generation farmer and president of the National Black Farmers Association who has been working for Black farmer reparations for decades, said that the Florida federal court has left open the door to change its mind but has strongly suggested it wouldn’t.
“I am very disappointed to read this Florida decision,” Boyd said by email.
Judge Howard wrote that in crafting this debt program benefiting farmers based on race that “Congress also must heed its obligation to do away with governmentally imposed discrimination based on race.”
This wouldve been fine if...FUCKIN CACS DIDNT STEAL OUR LAND AND RESOURCES, IT WOULDVE
BEEN FINE IF THERE WAS NO HISTORY OF CACS JUST GETTING LAND BECAUSE THEY WERE
FUCKIN DIRT POOR IN EUROPE AND COULDNT MAKE SHIT WORK THERE.
these wayward cacs of today love to convenient forget history only when it benefits them
to do so..
The whole state of Florida is cursed with a cancer that doesnt belong there...
correction this whole country is cursed with a cancer that doesnt belong here...
‘Not what it was sold to be’: why promised debt relief will affect hardly any Black farmers
Native Americans make up half of farmers eligible for USDA loan forgiveness while only a few thousand Black farmers are. But it’s likely no one will get relief soon
But but voting
DOJ forgoes appeal of order blocking money for minority farmers
….While the Justice Department has filed appeals within hours to defend the administration’s high-profile priorities in areas like immigration, this time federal government lawyers let the 60-day appeal period run — and then run out.
“It’s very unusual not to defend a statute that you support,” said Neal Devins, a professor of law and government at William & Mary Law School.
www.politico.com
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….While the Justice Department has filed appeals within hours to defend the administration’s high-profile priorities in areas like immigration, this time federal government lawyers let the 60-day appeal period run — and then run out.
“It’s very unusual not to defend a statute that you support,” said Neal Devins, a professor of law and government at William & Mary Law School.
DOJ forgoes appeal of order blocking money for minority farmers
The Agriculture Department said the Biden administration would keep defending the debt relief program at the trial court level as litigation moves forward.
www.politico.com