Barack Obama Disses Black Farmers

Wow, a black president turning his back on some of his own people:

As a senator, Barack Obama led the charge last year to pass a bill allowing black farmers to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. Now he is president, and his administration so far is acting like it wants the potentially budget-busting lawsuits to go away.

The change isn't sitting well with black farmers who thought they'd get a friendlier reception from Obama after years of resistance from President George W. Bush.

"You can't blame it on the Bush administration anymore," said John Boyd, head of the National Black Farmers Association, which has organized the lawsuits. "I can't figure out for the life of me why the president wouldn't want to implement a bill that he fought for as a U.S. senator."

At issue is a class-action lawsuit known as the Pigford case. Thousands of farmers sued USDA claiming they had for years been denied government loans and other assistance that routinely went to whites. The government settled in 1999 and has paid out nearly $1 billion in damages on almost 16,000 claims.

Farmers, lawyers and activists like Boyd have worked for years to reopen the case because thousands of farmers missed the deadlines for participating. Many said the filing period was too short and they were unaware of the settlement until it was too late.

The cause gained momentum in August 2007 when Obama, then an Illinois senator, introduced Pigford legislation about six months into his presidential campaign.

Although the case was hardly a hot-button political issue, it had drawn intense interest among African-Americans in the rural South. It was seen as a way for Obama to reach out in those areas, where he was not well-known and where he would need strong support to win the Democratic primary.

Proof once again that Barack Obama caters to the agenda of far-Left, white liberals. I mean, when you think about it, what has Barry done for blacks since he took office? Not a damn thing. Whether it's failing to address black-on-black crime, the onslaught of drugs in urban communities, police brutality and/or the rise of teenage pregnancy amongst young, minority women, Obama just doesn't seem to be concerned about the ails plaguing the black community, despite the fact that blacks voted in record numbers for him in the last election. Yet, in his first 100 days in office, Barry has wasted no time dealing with top-notch items on the white, liberal's agenda such as taxing the rich, attempting to close Guantanamo Bay, global warming and overturning stem-cell research regulations. Indeed, how black liberals remain so in love with this man is beyond me.