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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 832655" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><em><strong>Pigford v. Glickman</strong></em> was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action" target="_blank">class action</a> lawsuit against the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture" target="_blank">United States Department of Agriculture</a> (USDA), alleging <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination" target="_blank">racial discrimination</a> in its allocation of farm loans and assistance between 1983 and 1997. The lawsuit ended with a settlement in which the U.S. government agreed to pay <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" target="_blank">African American</a> farmers US$50,000 each if they had attempted to get USDA help but failed. To date, almost US$1 billion has been paid or credited to the farmers under the settlement's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_decree" target="_blank">consent decree</a>. </p><p>Even if you got a potted plant, that makes you a farmer. There was no vetting of the claims, no investigation into legitimacy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 832655, member: 12952"] [I][B]Pigford v. Glickman[/B][/I] was a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_action"]class action[/URL] lawsuit against the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture"]United States Department of Agriculture[/URL] (USDA), alleging [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination"]racial discrimination[/URL] in its allocation of farm loans and assistance between 1983 and 1997. The lawsuit ended with a settlement in which the U.S. government agreed to pay [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American"]African American[/URL] farmers US$50,000 each if they had attempted to get USDA help but failed. To date, almost US$1 billion has been paid or credited to the farmers under the settlement's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_decree"]consent decree[/URL]. Even if you got a potted plant, that makes you a farmer. There was no vetting of the claims, no investigation into legitimacy. [/QUOTE]
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