Jimmy Dismuke is speaking out against the Pigford scam, which IBD calls reparations and which is said to be the biggest in US history.
I’ve worked with the USDA for more than 25 years. The situation with Pigford has been horrible. There were cases of discrimination. Perhaps 100 cases in the whole state of [redacted]. But the federal government paid out thousands of claims, a lot of them churned by attorneys who made a lot of money.Apparently many attorneys were in on the scam, realizing that the USDA really didn't keep adequate records, which made it that much easier to grab money from the government, who seemed to giddily sabotage their own case to get more money out to black "farmers." Oh, and eight members of one family all got paid. One family.
Apparently all you had to do is file a paper (the government helped you) and claim you were discriminated against (if you missed the deadline, the government helpfully extended it).
Oh, and you had to be black.
You had to be black.
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