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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8078917" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>See also the 2010 <em>Pigford</em> settlement: the FDA admitted decades of systemic discrimination against black farmers, including, but not limited to giving blacks farm loans at higher rates than whites with comparable assets, delaying the approval of loans, or denying them outright. The settlement was over $1.2b, most of which went to a single family that kept meticulous records. The hundreds of other families in the class action could only prove a fraction of their damages, meaning the actual harm to black farmers is unknown. We’re not just talking loss of income: people lost their farms. Family businesses built up over generations were bankrupted. And of course, there were all those social ripples you’d expect to see when people lose literally everything.</p><p></p><p>Note: none of the higher ranking FDA officials involved in the discrimination were fired or demoted. The family that got the biggest recovery under the settlement actually had to deal with the official who did them dirty to get their farmland back.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>My grandfather was the first black principal of a white school in New Orleans, a position he earned practically by sheer force of will. (He’s infamous in NOLA’s educational circles.) As he told it, it was even worse- whatever shortfalls the white schools somehow shared with black schools were covered by infusions of cash from wealthy parents.</p><p></p><p>While there is nothing inherently wrong with this, this fact allowed those in charge of funding to deliberately underfund the system as a whole, knowing only black students would suffer.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yup.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I’ve seen Scalzi’s original posts on this and his subsequent defenses of his assertion. Pretty well expressed, but a lot of people still conflated “easy mode” with “can’t lose”/“God mode”.</p><p></p><p>And just to be clear, it’s not just a Black & White thing. Every minority in the USA has their own stories of oppression.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8078917, member: 19675"] See also the 2010 [I]Pigford[/I] settlement: the FDA admitted decades of systemic discrimination against black farmers, including, but not limited to giving blacks farm loans at higher rates than whites with comparable assets, delaying the approval of loans, or denying them outright. The settlement was over $1.2b, most of which went to a single family that kept meticulous records. The hundreds of other families in the class action could only prove a fraction of their damages, meaning the actual harm to black farmers is unknown. We’re not just talking loss of income: people lost their farms. Family businesses built up over generations were bankrupted. And of course, there were all those social ripples you’d expect to see when people lose literally everything. Note: none of the higher ranking FDA officials involved in the discrimination were fired or demoted. The family that got the biggest recovery under the settlement actually had to deal with the official who did them dirty to get their farmland back. My grandfather was the first black principal of a white school in New Orleans, a position he earned practically by sheer force of will. (He’s infamous in NOLA’s educational circles.) As he told it, it was even worse- whatever shortfalls the white schools somehow shared with black schools were covered by infusions of cash from wealthy parents. While there is nothing inherently wrong with this, this fact allowed those in charge of funding to deliberately underfund the system as a whole, knowing only black students would suffer. Yup. I’ve seen Scalzi’s original posts on this and his subsequent defenses of his assertion. Pretty well expressed, but a lot of people still conflated “easy mode” with “can’t lose”/“God mode”. And just to be clear, it’s not just a Black & White thing. Every minority in the USA has their own stories of oppression. [/QUOTE]
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