I can just hear Rahm yelling… “Tell those bleepity bleep bleepers to shut the bleep up!” And Gibbs glibly saying, “Pigford? What’s that? Why are you asking all of these questions? Let’s talk about something else.”

Look at the comments for some more links…..

http://www.redstate.com/izoneguy/2010/07/21/how-many-more-shirley-sherrods-work-for-the-federal-government/

trial, expulsion or even jail, the CBC would have more important things to worry about.
Unless, of course, they plan on using the money for a defense fund.

being concerned with their children’s or their grand children’s future? Do they realize that a billion here or a billion there adds up to real money?

Does the deficit and its harm to our long range future know the difference between Black and White Americans?

Lets see since Jan 2009 and today has the recession been color blind? Yup the AA community has been harder-if you use changes in unemployment rates-then the White community.

this is not really the place for a discussion of the long term prospects of America but its clear that currently the AA community has suffered under Obama and our diminished long term prospects due to our National debt and our budget deficit will also hurt their community too.

Yet the CDC is strangely quiet on that point.

I’m with the CBC on half of their argument

“‘The current hardships experienced by other farmers should not trump hardships placed on African Americans and Native Americans by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the past,’ they wrote.”

…am I crazy, or did that sound like they don’t *want* us to move on from past mistakes? That would make sense, actually…

“Sorry folks but Blanche ain’t no Abe and ya’ll ain’t gettin’ no money. Now gets back to humming “Old Man River” and STFU.”

“Yassa, Massa Barry.”

Thus endeth the CBC lesson for the day.

How about let’s not give any farmers any more money that we don’t flipping have? Why the hell do they deserve any of my hard earned tax money?

Now the CBC wants their “colored friend” to forget ideology and go by skin color? This is that settlement where there are 86,000 complaints and only 43,000 black farmers.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I can start to see a picture here……………

We never did find out who setup, I mean, leaked to Breitbart that headline-making video, did we? Who ever could it have been ? And it’s weird how it just so happened at the same time that the CBC was trying to publicize the govt. having not paid them their hush money, I mean, settlement. And here I thought it was just another Soros-funded attempt to silence conservative media. Looks like a win-win to me. (Just not FOR me, or Breitbart, or ya’ll, or … the American people, and by extension the rest of the free world!)

The lawsuit claimed more Discriminated Black Farmers than there are Black Farmers at all – in memory of “6 million Black slaves thrown overboard by slave ships in the early days of American slavery”, apparently.

And the majority of the settlement was going to Shirley Sherrod and her husband, the Black Panther, Charlie Sherrod.

Nice of CDC to be so concerned about her income.

Like Algore for Maurice Strong, author of the Kyoto Treaty, in their dealings with now-defunct Molten Metal Inc.

Nice how they all look out so well for eachother.

This go-round of funding is actually Pigford II. The original Pigford v. Glickman settlement was in 2000, but it was deemed that too many farmers missed the deadline for inclusion in the class action suit. Under Pigford, almost $1 billion has already been doled out in compensation. The appropriation being considered (or not) now is for an additional $1.2 billion.