US government wants more non-white farmers

President Joe Biden's administration is doling out $550 million for programs to help poor farmers and increase racial diversity in agricultural careers, adding to its previous "equity" outlays for food producers.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new funding on Wednesday, saying it aimed to help "underserved" producers access land, capital and markets and to train "the next diverse generation of agricultural professionals." The spending binge targets "farmers of color," meaning those with skin colors other than white.

The announcement follows a failed effort by the Biden administration to provide debt forgiveness to only non-white farmers through a March 2021 Covid-19 relief bill. A federal judge ruled in June 2021 that racially-based debt relief was unconstitutionally discriminatory.

A $739 billion tax and spending bill that Biden's Democratic Party pushed through Congress earlier this month enabled the USDA to take another crack at its diversity push, this time using broader language regarding eligibility to avoid court challenges. The spending package announced on Wednesday is part of the effort. The USDA also plans to offer a new debt-relief program for "economically distressed" farmers - not just those who are non-white - preferably by October, when a Covid-related moratorium on farm foreclosures is scheduled to end.

For now, the USDA said it would provide $300 million for projects to help struggling agricultural producers, including those who are poor, veterans, or "farmers of color." Although white farmers aren't technically excluded from the programs, the agency said it aimed to help "underserved" groups that have been discriminated against in the past.

The USDA is also earmarking $250 million to create career development opportunities at "minority-serving institutions." Historically black colleges, Native American institutions and "certified Hispanic-serving institutions" will be eligible to apply for grants under the program. Many of the students who participate will wind up with jobs in the federal government.

Comment: Built in loyalty?

The agency said new spending plans are

"the latest in a series of announcements building momentum around USDA's historic commitment to root out generations of systemic racism, center equity in decision-making and policymaking," and foster a "diverse, modern and inclusive workforce."

Not everyone is happy that the agency was forced to broaden eligibility for its subsidies. Commenting on changes to the debt-relief scheme, Virginia farmer John Boyd Jr., president of the Black Farmers Association, told CNN last week that the program would be less fair than what was previously planned.

"Now they're using very broad language that includes white farmers and other forms of discrimination, including age. Instead of getting what we already had in place, we are competing with others now."

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Artex · 2022-08-26T17:49:43Z

...wasn't this nation founded on non-white farmers and might that be a reason there aren't so many anymore? Because we all know they don't mean Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islanders, or indigenous people. There are a lot of Hispanic farmers, and a whole lot of Asian subsistence farmers, and the natives farm where they can. Don't see many Jewish farmers though, do you? Just something that became glaringly obvious when I thought about all the non-white protected people.

KROMM · 2022-08-26T18:00:22Z

Racial diversity quotas are just another form of racism aimed at white people..

I've never heard them promoting "racial diversity" in countries with non-white majority, why? Shouldn't there be "more whites" too, then?

Obviously that's not the case and thus it proves us 'tis merely a weapon aimed at white people to destroy their societies and dismantle the "racial opposition" they see in us..

And who wants it that way? It's glaring obvious, despite the fact they parade and mask themselves as "white people" too.. goddamn Zionists

Suspect · 2022-08-26T18:31:29Z

KROMM Exactly. And you are right about them masquerading as white. Although, only when beneficial and when not, they go back to being the worlds most victimized oppressed race as if they are not oppressing the whole of humanity themselves.

Artex · 2022-08-26T18:45:27Z

KROMM And group should be representative of 1. the percentage of the population while taking into account 2. the percentage of that population who actually wants to do that thing. To my point above, if you said there had to be an equal number of Jewish farmers, that metric would never be hit, because that population does not have the same interest in farming. I'm sure there are lots of black farmers in some parts of the country, but I'm sure there are families who have said they'd never work in a field as long as they live because of their family's past.

As Jordan Peterson likes to point out, there are more factors than simple racism that there is not an equal distribution of wealth and representation.

I suddenly want to see equal representation of Asians in the NBA.

agni · 2022-08-26T21:40:04Z

KROMM I think it's more of the Divide and Conquer thing, where they promote differences by whatever means necessary to keep people occupied with tension between each other, be it race, politics, religion, whatever... Easier to control small groups and less attention to what is going on in the background. Doubt they really care any about race or it being a threat.

KROMM · 2022-08-26T22:22:25Z

agni Well, if you ever studied Marx & Engels, they've said themselves the Slavs are a threat, since we're a reactionary race, we tend to react on all percieved threats to our existence, technocracy included

But you're right about the divide et impera , they support any scum on earth including criminals and pedo's just to keep us divided and occupied by internal conflicts, so we don't turn our attention to the external strife created by their rule..

Grocery Girl #723 · 2022-08-27T01:03:23Z

Artex I want to see it pushed to the absolute limits of absurdity. We are about to live through a time of Caligula-killing-his-mom-and-sewing-her-limbs-on-backward--and-serving-her-corpse-at-a-banquet Level insanity.

Biggyrat · 2022-08-26T22:48:47Z

Not to mention the great 'successes' the zionazis have seen in Zimbabwe, and South Africa, etc!.

Psstoffgoy · 2022-08-27T09:14:13Z

Biggyrat I was going to say the exact same thing, Zimbabwe was a food exporter, then the jewish parasite got rid of white farmers and now they black farmers can’t even feed their own population.

nedlud · 2022-08-27T08:58:49Z

NON-FARMERS UNITE!

Personally, I think we should have more non-humans humanizing us.

Don't you agree?

ned, a farmer

one of the last of his species...

nedlud · 2022-08-27T09:11:38Z

THE RESISTANCE

I see no farmers here (where like live).

I see only large earth-movers, spraying chemicals.

And I bet they can hardly wait to get out of the field.

So they can mow and spray their fucking lawns.

Make sure there are no signs of life, there, either.

Feeding the world, one dead, but fully obedient soldier at a time.

ned

nedlud · 2022-08-27T09:16:37Z

DEAR JOHN

I do see a few gardeners, however. Not many, but a few.

You can grow a lot on a postage stamp.

Not enough to actually survive, though.

Another incoming round.

Have a great day.

ned,

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Just another psyops/hoax, move along nothing to see here.

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