The race card is in full effect lately. We have two member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters, up on ethics violation charges. We have members of the CBC yelling racism at every turn, without any proof to back up their claims and now we have the CBC whining about black farmers not getting their government checks while white farmers have received theirs.
Again, tell me what party is obsessed about race and continues to make it a white versus black argument?
The Hill reports:
African-American lawmakers are irate that the Obama administration has promised Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) $1.5 billion in farm aid while claiming it can’t pay a landmark legal settlement with black farmers.
Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus wrote to President Obama on Thursday calling on him to find a way to compensate black farmers who suffered discrimination in government loan programs during the 1980s and 1990s.The letter was spurred by behind-the-scenes deal-making in the Senate as part of an effort to pass small-business legislation.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel promised Lincoln, who sponsored the provision, that the administration would find a way to pay out $1.5 million in disaster assistance to farmers while they wait for programs in the 2008 farm bill to be implemented.
At the same time, the administration has told black farmers it lacks the funds to pay a $1.2 billion agreement they reached with the Department of Agriculture in 1999 to settle the Pigford class-action lawsuit.
Read more about the Pigford scam here.
The agriculture disaster relief had been included in the small-business bill until Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pulled it at the last minute in a bid for GOP support.
Members of the black caucus say that if the administration can find $1.5 billion within its administrative funds to pay mostly white farmers in Arkansas and other states, it should be able to pay black farmers who suffered discrimination.
“The current hardships experienced by other farmers should not trump hardships placed on African Americans and Native Americans by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the past,” they wrote.
It’s always about race when dealing with the Congressional Black Caucus. The irony is that this is from a Democratic-control House, Senate and White House. Love to see the Donkeys race-baiting and back-biting each other.
Emanuel promised Lincoln that the president would take administrative action to pay $1.5 billion to help farmers waiting for assistance from the 2008 farm bill, as way to secure her support for the bill.
Rahm Emanuel giving a Democrat a bribe to support the bill! Where have we seen this brand of Chicago-style politics before? This is the most corrupt White House in history. I’m calling for Kanye West to make another announcement about a president not caring about black people.
Shirley Sherrod and her husband, Charles, are tied to the Pigsford scam. Read a great article and this scam and how Obama ties into it over at American Thinker.
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[...] Obama is tied to the Shirley Sherrod/Pigford/black farmer scandal. This is why Sherrod was fired so quickly because the White House thought Glenn Beck was about to expose their scheme. I’ve written about it here, here, here, and here. [...]