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How do you fight racism in farming? A group behind a lawsuit has an idea of how you
don’t.
As covered by RedState’s Mike Miller last month, amid a COVID relief bill signed by President Biden, Congress included the allocation of “billions of dollars in debt relief and other assistance” to farmers who aren’t white.
At the time, Tennessee farmer Kelly Griggs who runs an 1,800-acre business in Humboldt was quoted thusly:
“Just because you’re a certain color, you don’t have to pay back money? I don’t care if you’re purple, black, yellow, white, gray, if you borrow money, you have to pay it back.”
Sara Carter speaks with forgotten Tennessee farmers in a Hannity exclusive
The $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package enacted last week by President Biden includes billions of dollars in debt relief and other assistance for farmers of color. However, the incorporation of race-based criteria is leaving other farmers scratching their heads. I m sorry, but I was raised to not see color and not to see race, but to see the character and the person s heart, Tennesse farmer Kelly Griggs told Sara Carter in a Hannity exclusive Monday. That s how I was raised, that s how the farming community sees each other. The government has basically said OK, this is what we are doing, whether you like it or not , she continued. Because farmers throughout the years, that s what we ve had to take.
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