"In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997." The case was entitled "Pigford vs. Glickman" and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims, but then on February 23, 2010, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment: In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to "Pigford". The amount was a staggering ... $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs - 400 black farmers had now swollen, in a class action suit, to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America. There was only one teensy problem: the United States of America doesn't have 86,000 black farmers!
According to accurate and totally verifiable Official USDA 2007 Census census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697.
How are Shirley Sherrod - who's family received $13 million - and Senator Barack Obama involved?
Thinking is permitted at all times! Where in the Constitution can an Executive Department of the government operate as a bank (other than the Federal Reserve created in 1913)? So the Department of Agriculture starts lending money and, the American taxpayers lose $1.25 billion in a civil suit!
