MADISON – White farmers in four Midwestern states and a conservative law firm are suing the Biden administration over a loan forgiveness program that provides relief to agriculture producers of color.
The farmers, two of whom live in Wisconsin, allege the administration is using an unconstitutional program in an effort to end systemic racism and should make the relief available to white farmers, too.
“Such broad goals do not override the constitutional ban on race discrimination,” the federal lawsuit filed by attorneys from the Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty says.
The Biden administration created the program for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers earlier this year under the American Rescue Plan Act. It pays up to 120% of direct or guaranteed farm loan balances for producers who are Black, American Indian or Alaskan native, Hispanic or Latino, and Asian American or Pacific Islander.
“USDA recognizes that socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers have faced systemic discrimination with cumulative effects that have, among other consequences, led to a substantial loss in the number of socially disadvantaged producers, reduced the amount of farmland they control, and contributed to a cycle of debt that was exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture officials wrote about the program on the agency’s webpage.
“During the pandemic, socially disadvantaged communities saw a disproportionate amount of COVID-19 infection rates, loss of property, hospitalizations, death, and economic hurt,” the agency said.
A spokesman for USDA said the agency was reviewing the complaint with the Department of Justice.
“During this review, we will continue to implement the debt relief to qualified socially disadvantaged borrowers under the American Rescue Plan Act,” spokesman Dirk Fillpot said by email.
The plaintiffs include Calumet County dairy farmer Adam Faust, who farms with both legs amputated after being born with spina bifida, which causes babies to be born with exposed spinal tissue that can cause paralysis in lower limbs. Another is Christopher Baird, who owns a dairy farm near Ferryville in Crawford County.
“There should absolutely be no federal dollars going anywhere just based on race. The economic impact from COVID-19 didn’t hurt any race more than another as far as agriculture goes,” Faust said.
The plaintiffs allege that because race discrimination is barred under the U.S. Constitution, the federal government “must prove that its discriminatory benefit is narrowly tailored and serves a compelling government interest.”
The lawsuit was filed Thursday in the Eastern District of Wisconsin against Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Zach Ducheneaux, administrator of the Farm Service Agency.
It asks the court to bar Vilsack and Ducheneaux from considering race when determining recipients of the relief.
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We White people are trash and since we are White, the “equality” under our Constitution means nothing, as “equity” is the mantra of the liberals.
TO leftists, white peop,e are always evil/wrong, so of course they care not about us.. TILL ITS TIME to beg us for our votes.
Well here’s an idea! What happens when and if white people just stop paying taxes? What these swamp creatures are saying and doing is not only discrimination but in your face racism, this needs to end, if it means kicking people out of office then so be it. If it means having the president impeached that works as well, one of the first things a president is supposed to do is to uphold the law and protect and defend the country and the CONSTITUTION, so far this guy we have has yet to uphold anything but has in fact been working with china to destroy this country from the inside.
AND to steal our tax dollars
The first few hundred who wold try, would get arrested and jailed, as a “Warning” to the others not to try that.. I fear.
White people who vote for democrats are advocates of their own demise.
If this was the democrats filing the court would have already issued a restraining order to stop the funding altogether. That is how they work. I wonder if this lawsuit even asked the court to. The race baiting Biden administration is trying to take us back to the 50s. You have to be pretty black to be a member of Biden’s Klan.
I agree. HAD this been a conservative president, who said “We will forgive loans by WHITES, ahead of blacks or latinos”, YOU CAN BET THERE WOULD ALREADY have been a court that said “SORRY, but that is racist!”
You can thank that race baiting BHO administration also. BHO got elected twice only to twist that knife in our backs, remember how they told you they were doing everything possible for the Middle Class. Total LIES !
If i could, i’d go back to ensure he never even became a footnote in the election, LET ALONE WON IT twice.
According to Wikipedia, white is the lightest color. So since white is a color then give the white farmers the same funding that you give black ones. Seems to me like anything else would be racial discrimination.
I am shocked wikipedia has not Edited that, to comply with all wokist language.
Amendment 14 – Citizenship Rights. Ratified 7/9/1868. Note History
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
In this instance a kindergartener could see that white farmers have no equal protection under the law which this one is clearly racist. Where is the due Process? White farmers clearly are being deprived of equal forgiveness of their loans, giving a valued market adavantage to other people based soley on skin color.
Then how come Affirmative Action has been allowed to stand all this time?
BECAUSE of CRAPTASTIC idiots in the scotus…
Offhand it would seem Biden violated their civil rights. He should go to jail and be impeached.
ABSOLUTELY!! Along with all of congress and senate who passed it… they ALL violated the civil rights of the white farmers…
The nightmare in our white house is racially dividing the country as he destroys it… our Country’s biggest enemy occupies the white house…
God help us all before they totally destroy it..
WORSE< the court cretins, are LETTING HIM DO SO.
This is the left creating systemic racism all over again. It’s far past time to see them put down for good.
Can anyone say Blatant Racism and Reverse Racism. That is the Biden administration.
BUT SINCE its racism TOWARDS whites, its ‘all good’….
It won’t be long before the blacks will be allowed to just walk into your house, take what they want, it will be 100% legal, and there won’t be one dang thing you’ll be able to do about it.
Just wait.
Unfortunately i fear the same…
“It won’t be long before the blacks will be allowed to just walk into your house, take what they want,”
No they won’t, not in my house. They would be met with the barrel of a gun, which I am more than prepared to use. The same applies should these idiots think they can take my legally owned weapons. I may die, but so will a bunch of them. I’ve reached an age where my time left is limited anyway.
They already are doing it with our businesses.
Good point. Just look at the MILLIONS OF dollars having to get paid out in insurance, to all the stores LOOTED…
This sob admin needs to be completely exited out the front door of that white house along with all their ignorance!! This is just absurd! How much more can we take of this s…!!!
But yet Biden is saying he is unifying the country. Yeah right.
Unifying it in HATE OF the govt maybe.
“During the pandemic, socially disadvantaged communities saw a disproportionate amount of COVID-19 infection rates, loss of property, hospitalizations, death, and economic hurt,” the agency said.
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according to whom??
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we keep hearing this claim but see no data or evidence – prove it
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According to the nightmare in the white house… But that is NOT the fault of white people… The nightmare in the white house is racially dividing this country… so much for his “unity”… this fool is taking our country down a dark and dangerous road to destruction… American jobs killed, the sovereignty of our country destroyed with his open borders so the world can enter illegally, more and more illegal aliens flooding in by the thousands EVERY day AT OUR EXPENSE!!! talk of defunding the police as crime rises horrible in the country, putting more and more criminal illegal aliens back on the streets to commit more crimes … GOP needs to get a stiff backbone and go after this nightmare and his cult of radical democRATS before they totally destroy the country and the American people!!! GOD HELP US ALL BEFORE THESE LUNATICS TOTALLY DESTROY OUR COUNTRY!!!
AND even if they showed “data”, COULD WE BELIEVE THEM!?!?!?!?
This statement is false: “During the pandemic, socially disadvantaged communities saw a disproportionate amount of COVID-19 infection rates, loss of property, hospitalizations, death, and economic hurt,” the agency said.
According to CDC data all minorities except Native Americans experience half or less mortality rate than Whites among those infected. Roughly 1.6% for Whites compared to 0.8% for Blacks. Blacks and other minorities may have had more infections but that is logically due to them usually living in densely populated cities. Hispanics have even a higher survival rate than Blacks and I would suspect many of these folks are laughing all the way to the bank.
I hope that more and more white farmers join this lawsuit or start one of their own.. they need to bring down this racist lunatic in the white house along with his cult of radical democRATS.. I pray that these white farmers win their lawsuit… What this nightmare in our white is doing is WRONG!!! IT’S RACIST!!! more and more this nightmare in our white house is tearing down this country and if he isn’t stopped, our country is going to be totally destroyed.. GOD HELP US ALL AS THIS NIGHTMARE ADMINISTRATION DESTROYS OUR COUNTRY!!!!
With how totally SHANKED OUR courts have gotten, ESPECIALLY the wastes of air in the scotus, i fear that these suits will go no where.
Senile has brought back Jim Crow laws against whites. Notice it doesn’t apply to him and he’s whiter than a Klansman’s sheet.
Hmmm . . . what happened to all that white privilege?
The fact that we actually have to sue our government for racial discrimination in the first place is horrifying. Yep. that double amputee has certainly used his white privilege to grow better crops than his able-bodies fellow farmers of color. And by the way, white is a color too, you know.
ANd based on how practically every nation in Africa, has had o BEG white folk to come back, to RUN THE FARMS< i am shocked there are that many 'black farmers here!
Barack H. Obama once saw supposed to have Said, ” Don’t Tell Me Words don’t Matter,…” I guess then the words in ” I have a Dream, doesn’t matter If your Joe Biden Kamala Harris