Once again, Congress doesn’t fund black farmers’ settlement

Black farmers were once again passed over by the government. They have been waiting for millions promised to them in a settlement following a discrimination lawsuit. Last night, when Congress passed an emergency funding bill to supplement the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it removed funding allocated to pay the farmers from the bill. Gary Grant, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association says that the lack of action is keeping them in poverty. “We have to get Congress to understand that they are acting very inappropraitely and causing a festering sore in this country not to heal,” says Grant.