Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only cover a small part of the total amount the government owes them.
Dear friends,
For years, federal officials in the South discriminated against black farmers, denying them federal loans and grants that white farmers easily received.
When Barack Obama was running for president he championed their cause. He created a bill to compensate the farmers, many of whom had lost their land and livelihoods. It helped Obama secure the support of black members of Congress and voters in the rural South.
Now it looks like the Obama administration may be trying to avoid fairly compensating these black farmers. It would be a shame for this to happen.
That's why I've joined .
Thanks.
* Colorofchange.org campaigns to make the US government more responsive to the concerns of black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.
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NOTES
1. http://www.northwestgeorgia.com/opinion/local_story_114155047.html
2. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0209/022309cdpm1.htm
3. http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=433
4. http://tinyurl.com/cxohg2
5. http://wikileaks.org/wiki/CRS-RS20430
6. http://tinyurl.com/de449r
7. http://www.themilitant.com/2009/7317/731704.html
8. http://tinyurl.com/cmr2cs
9. See note 8.
10. See note 8.