America Already Has Two "Reparations" Programs
Taxpayer Funded Race Communism
I know I said I’d lay off the South Africanization of America angle for a bit. However, two things came up. One is that I was invited onto Matt Gaetz’s cable news show on OAN to discuss the South Africanization of America, so it’s on my mind. The other is that I did more digging and found the multi-billion-dollar extent of Biden Era reparations programs, and found that next to no one knows about them. So, today’s article is a break from the trade series and on the reparations issue.
On Thursday, May 15, a collection of black Congresswomen reintroduced a resolution demanding that taxpayers pay black Americans “reparations” for slavery.1 The leader of the racial wealth transfer resolution, Rep. Summer Lee, defended the idea of government-enforced race communism2 by saying: “We’re here to say that there’s no more waiting, no more watering down, no more putting justice on layaway. Black folks are owed more than thoughts and prayers. We’re owed repair, we’re owed restitution, and we’re owed justice.”3 Lee’s ridiculous move came after Ayanna Pressley introduced similar legislation in February, also demanding reparations.4
Of course, the whole thing is absurd. Government transfer programs that take capital at gunpoint from high-agency, productive members of society and hand it to bloodlines that haven’t done honest work in a century already exist, and are abused to the point of constituting reparations.
Just look into how many companies named things like “Dodge Hellcat LLC” got Paycheck Protection Program loans that were forgiven.5 Or take a peek at the videos of EBT recipients using their taxpayer funds to dine at restaurants like Wingstop.6 Or look up all the government-mandated and taxpayer-funded DEI positions,7 black business grants,8 and so on that exist.
So, to be clear, numerous white to black transfer programs already exist. Those programs just have names other than “reparations.”
But race-baiting legislators like Ayanna Pressley and Summer Lee want programs that are explicitly called reparations, as already exist at the local level—such as in Evanston, Illinois,9 as Isaac Simpson noted in the comments—mainly because of the pain and humiliation that a political victory for race communism will inflict upon white Americans.
The thing is, America has already had reparations programs. In the near past, in fact. Under the Biden Administration, two separate reparations programs were paid for by taxpayers, with the second program only drawing to a close in 2024. Reparations, in short, are already here.
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Biden’s Reparation Programs
The First Attempt at Zimbabwefication
The first of Biden’s reparation programs was created by Section 1005 of the American Rescue Act of 2021. According to that underreported provision, Congress granted “funding and authorization for USDA FSA to pay up to 120 percent of direct and guaranteed loan outstanding balances as of January 1, 2021, for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.”10
Predictably, “socially disadvantaged” didn’t mean those who lost family members in America’s wars, who suffered the ravages of the government-allowed opioid epidemic, or who felt the brunt of our NAFTA self-suicide. It wasn’t people like JD Vance that Biden and his race communist cronies wanted to benefit.
Instead, it was all non-whites. All non-white farmers could get their loans forgiven. Specifically, the law provided that “socially disadvantaged group” meant “a group whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities.”11 That, in turn, was defined to mean that any farmer who was “American Indian, Alaskan Native, Asian, Black, African American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino” could get their loan paid off, plus the extra 20% to cover the taxes.12
Speaking to NewsNation, one white farmer who works two jobs in addition to farming to support his family, said, “It wasn’t about hardship. It wasn’t about financial situations. It was about that box you checked under ethnicity line under your application.”13 He added that anyone who checked the “non-white” box could get their loans forgiven, but any white farmer who checked the box would get his loan forgiveness application immediately denied.
What that meant is that the Biden Administration had created an explicitly racial handout program that was meant to, and did, only benefit non-white farmers, reeking of Mugabeism or South Africanization.14
Predictably, the law was challenged in court. Somewhat surprisingly, given the current bent of the judiciary, the law was declared unconstitutional and Congress repealed it.
But the attempt at ending reparations didn’t end there, and soon enough, a new, multi-billion-dollar reparations program was in effect. However, this one was not struck down.
Take 2
Having learned from the first attempt at reparations that an explicitly racial program built around hostility to white Americans would likely be struck down by the judiciary, the Democrats tried a different way around the problem with their second attempt.
That attempt came in Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act. Most importantly, subsection (5) provides, “$2.2 billion to support a program to provide financial assistance (including the cost of providing financial assistance) to farmers, ranchers, or forest landowners who were determined to have experienced discrimination in USDA farm lending programs prior to January 1, 2021.”15
Notably, that’s not explicitly racial, though “discrimination” implies that it is racial, as does subsection (3) providing “$10 million to fund activities of equity commissions established to address racial equity issues within the USDA and in the programs of the USDA.” As “equity” is always an anti-white term, we all know what that means.16
In practice, the program, called the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program (DFAP), was just as racial as the 2021 ARA program.
As the Associated Press noted, the $2 billion program, which handed out payments from $3,500 to $500,000 to around 43,000 recipients, paid out exclusively to “Black and other minority farmers,” primarily in “Mississippi and Alabama.”17
The racial nature of DFAP was recognized by some of America’s most notoriously Patrice Lumumba-like legislators.
Sen. Cory Booker, for example, highlighted the race-based nature of “discrimination relief” by saying, “In order to address the well-documented history of discrimination over the past century by the USDA against Black farmers, I fought to include $2.2 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to provide financial assistance to farmers who had suffered because of it. I am pleased that today the USDA announced that this financial assistance has been disbursed to Black farmers and other farmers who were victims of USDA discrimination. This money will be a lifeline to farmers and ranchers across the country who in the past have been unfairly denied access to USDA lending and safety net programs.”18
Similarly, Bennie Thompson said, “This program is crucial for Black farmers in Mississippi and across the country, who have historically faced systemic discrimination. As the only member of Congress from Mississippi to vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, I am proud to see the positive impact this legislation is having on our farmers and ranchers. These awards are a significant step in the right direction, but our work towards equity must continue.”19
Non-legislators noted the racial nature of DFAP, too. For example, the National Black Farmers Association described how the program’s passage was essentially a black political victory, saying, “No matter how it is sliced, the $2.2 billion in payouts is historic. [...] This victory is not just for the NBFA, but for all Black farmers and their families who have endured discrimination and struggled to make ends meet.”20 The NBFA President took the opportunity to call for yet further reparations payments, saying, “It’s like putting a bandage on somebody that needs open-heart surgery. We want our land, and I want to be very, very clear about that.”21
Others chimed in as well, but the point was essentially the same: DFAP was seen and treated as a racial handout program that, as reparations are meant to, took money from taxpayers and handed it to racial minorities, with nearly all of the intended and actual recipients being black. That’s just reparations with a different name.
That’s not all.
While the original American Relief Act loan forgiveness program was canceled because of its explicitly anti-white nature, the Inflation Reduction Act budgeted $3.1 billion to make it a reality in Section 22006.22 That too was racial. As NewsNation notes:23
The letter [announcing the program] went on to inform those socially disadvantaged farmers that, although the American Rescue Plan Act no longer grants the USDA statutory authority to fund payments to them, a new payment and loan modification program is available under the IRA.
The whistleblower told NewsNation none of the white farmers he works with received this email. He also said that USDA workers were instructed to tell that specific group of socially disadvantaged farmers to stop paying their loans because they would be forgiven.
So, though the race-based loan relief program was declared unconstitutional and repealed, Congress snuck it back in a year later, and the USDA aided and abetted that, only informing the original set of “socially disadvantaged” farmers about the loan relief and hiding the loan relief program from white farmers. Thus, while the program was not de jure discriminatory, which could have led to another legal fight, it was de facto another $3.1 billion reparation scheme.
Predictably, black farmers said that wasn’t enough of a handout and asked for yet more race-based taxpayer grants and loan forgiveness.24 Still, they had gotten, all told, over $5 billion in reparations by one act of Congress alone.
You’ve Already Paid for Reparations
To recap, Congress initially created a multi-billion-dollar loan relief scheme that was only open to non-whites. That faced resistance from the courts, so Congress then tacked two new programs onto the Inflation Reduction Act in Section 22006, which allocated $3.1 billion for loan relief, and Section 22007, which created $2.2 billion in grants for “discriminated against” farmers. Nearly all of that appears to have gone, as was intended, into the pockets of black Americans. Further, it appears that the USDA hid the non-racial loan forgiveness program from white farmers so that they couldn’t apply for it.
That is just reparations. Yes, the programs had different names and were less explicit than what Reps. Lee and Pressley want. But, in reality, they are multi-billion-dollar reparation programs that tack on top of decades of anti-white discrimination in spending, policy, and outlook of the sort Jeremy Carl exposes in his fabulous The Unprotected Class.25
So, if you are a taxpayer, part of your paycheck went to fund reparations checks. Welcome to South Africanized America.
Featured image credit: Fibonacci Blue from Minnesota, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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