SEMINOLE NATION / SEMINOLE — Alvin Lee has raised cattle outside Seminole for 25 years. Like thousands of Black farmers in the United States, he has never seen a profit.
June 13, 2021
A judge put a halt to Joe Biden’s “unconstitutional” [racist] $4 billion program that would pay up to 120 percent of black, American Indian, Hispanic, Asian American, or Pacific Islander farmers’ debt. The program defines social disadvantage by race.
Twelve white farmers sued.
It’s very unAmerican and it’s unconstitutional.
Wisconsin Judge William Griesbach issued a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking the loan forgiveness program Biden put in place after saying he wanted to tackle longstanding inequalities for farmers of color.
Judge Griesbach said the plan failed to provide adequate examples of recent hardships imposed on farmers from minority backgrounds. He also claimed that in trying to end one type of discrimination, the program ended up creating another.
While Congress managed to pass the American Rescue Plan, which included $4 billion for Black farmers and other minority farmers, many of those farmers have yet to reap any of the benefits from that piece of legislation. According to The Washington Post, judge William Griesbach of Wisconsin s Eastern.