2 billion for black people and this thread seeing zero traffic just unserious
American Rescue Plan and Agriculture, Measure Includes Billions in Aid for Disadvantaged Farmers - Farm Policy News
Laura Reiley reported on the front page of today's Washington Post that, "A little-known element of President Biden’s massive stimulus relief package would pay billions of dollars to disadvantaged farmers — benefiting Black farmers in a way that some experts say no legislation has since the...
farmpolicynews.illinois.edu
Of the $10.4 billion in the American Rescue Plan that will support agriculture, approximately half would go to disadvantaged farmers, according to estimates from the Farm Bureau, an industry organization. About a quarter of disadvantaged farmers are Black. The money would provide debt relief as well as grants, training, education and other forms of assistanceaimed at acquiring land.
“While it’s a fraction of the $1.9 trillion bill that passed in the Senate on Saturday, advocates say it still represents a step toward righting a wrong after a century of mistreatment of Black farmers by the government and others. Some say it is a form of reparations for African Americans who have suffered a long history of racial oppression.”
This is for "people of color"/disadvantaged to be very specefic. Which for some reason yall continue to refuse to do in reference to this story. Youve been corrected everytime you bring this up. Yet continue to push this story as something for black farmers specefically. No reason not to be specefic unless you have an agenda. This is very nice for those black farmers which represent i believe represents less than 50,000 of us. But does it past the test as being part of a black agenda? I somehow doubt those vegetables and animals are going to be "black vegetables" going only to us.
Theres democrat and republican policy not meant for black people at all thats going to help more than 50K black people. Yall better off pushing the discounts for diabetes meds. Not black specefic,but its more than 50K black people with diabetes unfornately. Maybe yall as black men can assist these black farmers by eating cleaner