You may have read about a $1.2 billion bill signed into law by President Barack Obama that will compensate 75,000 black farmers for discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Any racial discrimination by the federal government ought to be punished. But former Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer raises serious questions about the legitimacy of some of the claims – and about why seemingly no one at the Department of Agriculture is being held accountable for all that discrimination.
“If that many farmers were discriminated against it would mean that the whole Department had a massive conspiracy against black farmers,” Schafer wrote on the website BigGovernment.com.
But if the discrimination was that widespread, why is so little responsibility being taken for it at the Department of Agriculture?
“Wouldn’t you think if that many incidences of discrimination actually took place the perpetrators would have to be pretty visible and easily identified?” Schafer wrote. “However, I could find not an indication that even one employee was fired because of discriminating against a black farmer. Something just doesn’t add up!”