Dan
Glickman--Clinton USDA Sec.
National
Black Farmers Association (1995)
President
John Boyd / Senator Charles Schumer D-NY
Jan 05
2021https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/01/05/black-farmers-biden-vilsack " ...In 1920, Black farmers owned 14% of farmland in the U.S., compared to 1.6% today. Boyd knows firsthand that racism drove this shift. Producers in his county faced discrimination for years at the hands of a USDA employee in charge of giving Black farmers loans in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, he says. The person would only meet with Black farmers on Wednesdays and took more than 370 days to process Black farm loans, compared to less than 30 days for white farmers, Boyd says. The employee spat on him, tore up and threw his application in the trash, and slept through the application period, he says. In desperate need of a farm operator, Boyd would wait for the employee to wake up.
“That's the type of discrimination that Black farmers have been experiencing at the hands of the government,” he says. “The very people supposed to give us a hand up was
the very same agency that almost put us out of business and drove us into almost an extinction based on the numbers.”
Pigford II Filed-- 2010 / Settled- 2010 $ 1.2 Billion Bush2 (R) Obama (D)
(2004)
Delores Huerta wiki/ Mexico/
Coahuila
United Farm Workers
Rudy
Arredondo--President--CEO--Executive DirectorLatino Farmers and Ranchers International 731 Central Ave. E., Edgewater. MD 21037 https://lfrinc.org/ Oct 12 2009
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113730694 "...Noe Obregon, 47, looks exactly like the South Texas farmer he's been all his life: cowboy hat, blue denim shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. Obregon says that in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, it didn't matter what you looked like or how good of a farmer you were. If you were Hispanic in Texas, getting a farm loan from the USDA was like the quest for the Holy Grail.
"I would go and apply, and it would take about two to three weeks," says Obregon. "Then they would turn me down, say it was a high risk crop or different reasons. But it was always, 'No.' Then I would appeal, and it would take 90 to 120 days, and by then my planting season was over."
Instead of getting his loan in the spring, Obregon says his money would come in November. He would use the late arriving loan to get his family through the winter, and then he'd apply earlier the next year.
But Obregon learned it didn't matter how early he applied. While his white neighbors got their loans in February and planted and raised crops, Obregon seethed and his debt mounted. By 1990, he owed the government $150,000, and the USDA moved to foreclose on his farm. He says it was the same with nearly every Hispanic farmer in the county...".
Marilyn Keepseagle
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https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/288-keepseagle-v-usda-the-case-
continues
2015_jun_30 .... Author: Marshall Matz
mmatz@ofwlaw.comspecializes in agriculture, food security and Indian law at OFW Law.
https://www.ncai.org/tribal-directory/tribal-organizations The Indian Land Tenure Foundation 151 County Road B2 East, Little Canada, MN 55117-1523 651 / 766-8999 https://iltf.org/ https://iltf.org/about-us/partners/
Biden Admin./ Interior Secretary
[6] Deb
Haaland
San Jose de Laguna Mission Church & Convento,
Laguna Pueblo, Valencia County, New Mexico