Daybreak March 31: Scott: Debt relief unrelated to reparations – Agri-Pulse

Some advocates of the newly-enacted debt relief provisions for minority farmers have called it a form of reparations. But House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott, who is African American, strenuously objects to that characterization. He says the $4 billion just makes up for the fact that white farmers primarily benefitted from the billions of dollars in recent farm payments.

This is nothing to do with slavery and reparations. Theres nothing we can do about that, Scott said in an interview with Philadelphia radio station WURD. Black farmers havent gotten the money that the white farmers got last year, he said.

Scott says hes planning additional legislation aimed at expanding Black farmers share of ag markets and crop acreage.

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