Sowing injustice: Black farmers still owed millions

Dear Black Farmers,

Thanks for all your hard work in the hot sun. Thanks for sweating and toiling day-in, day-out, so that I may eat nutritious meals and even have some leftover to share with poor countries in the world. Thanks for helping make America the world’s breadbasket. As a gesture of our appreciation, I’d like to deny you the opportunity to have access to loans that white farmers easily receive. In fact, I’m so indebted to you that I will refuse to pay you $1.25 billion dollars even after a federal judge ordered me to pony up.

Your BFF,
The United States Senate

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Why Black Farmers Are Broke

Today is the deadline for the government to pay Black farmers more than one billion to settle a class-action lawsuit that began more than a decade ago. For decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied or delayed small loans to Black farmers. The USDA even admits it is guilty.

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