Black farmers – possibly over 70,000 of them – will get cash payments and debt relief from the federal government totaling $1.25 billion, in reparation for
alleged racial discrimination suffered under the Department of Agriculture’s loan programs, the Obama Administration has agreed.
The president announced the deal on Thursday, applauding Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Eric Holder for “bringing these long-ignored claims of African American farmers to a rightful conclusion.â€
The Washington Post called the settlement “part of a wider effort by Obama and senior officials to dispense with lawsuits stemming from America’s checkered civil rights legacy.â€
That $1.25 billion is only a fraction, however, of the sum that the reparations movement has called for to compensate for all the injustices committed against blacks in American history.
According to the reparations mindset, therefore, President Obama’s $1.25 billion for 70,000-plus black farmers is hardly even a beginning.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-reparations-black-farmers/2010/02/21/id/350458[/quote]
The original 1999 class action lawsuit was awarded $2.5B for 20,000 farmers. These are apparently the ones who 'filed too late'.
Approximately 58,000 claimants who filed claims after the October 12, 1999 deadline, but before the September 15, 2000 “late-filing†cut-off, never had their discrimination claims resolved because they were
found not to have met the “extraordinary circumstances†test for the filing of late claims.
