Black farmers want the money they’re owed from a racial bias suit and is calling on Congress to pony up the dough
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A March 31 deadline to appropriate the funds has passed, and farmers now may withdraw from the settlement and pursue independent litigation against the government. Congress now has a target date of the end of May to come up with a plan.
“We spend a billion dollars on a jet to go bomb somebody. We’re talking about a billion dollars to help feed our country, and I just don’t see why Congress and the president can’t go ahead and find [the funds]. It is an emergency,” said Gary Grant, with the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association.
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