Steve King digs in: Congress will investigate "Reparations" for Black Farmers

[HopeOverFear]

Full article here.

In an interview with local western Iowa radio station KCIM, King discussed the oversight efforts that the new GOP House would undertake. First and foremost, he said, would be his pet cause of investigating ACORN -- which no longer exists as a national organization, but whose activists at the state level could be targeted.

"And there'll be other investigations looking into the Pigford farms issue," King added, "which I think is full of fraud, that's -- what it amounts to is paying reparations to black farmers in America. We don't do reparations in America."

King has previously attacked the settlement for discrimination in past decades by the Department of Agriculture as "slavery reparations".

[Baltoman991]

And in 2012, King and the rest of the pukes will be telling African-Americans to vote for them because they will do so much more for African-Americans than Democrats will.

The hypocrisy of the right knows no limits. I wonder how he feels about the repartations his side has given the rich white man? Fucking racist pigs the whole lot of them.

And yes, in my opinion, the tax cuts for the uber rich can be looked at as repartations if he wants to play that stupid game.

[Cha]

Good, King..you stupid, dense, typical gop idiot.

They don't have anything positive for our country.. not one idea comes from their collective braindead head but they sure can make up shit outta thin air.

[spazito]

What a racist POS he is. Waste of time and money, both him and his "investigation".

[OptimistesMaddie]

Please go forward with it King. You will guarantee instead of 88% of black voters voting for the Democratic party, you will guarantee 98%.

King believes that it was okay to discrimiinate against black farmers and deny them loans while white farmers got all of the loans.

Go ahead...

[Capn Sunshine]

Yeah, that's my take on this as well. Let those racist ignorant fucks parade it fully for all minority groups to witness. I'm really looking forward to their attacks on the brown people as well.

[nofurylike]

what a vile racist slime he is.

thank you for posting this, HopeOverFear.

[jaxx]

It's hard to watch an asshole get power, and King is an asshole. This quote puts racist in front of his name for all to see:

He also famously described a hypothetical fraudulent claim that might result from the settlement: "The fraudulent claims might be, well Johnny, yeah he was raised on a farm but he wouldn't help his dad. He went to the city, became a drug addict, and when Daddy needed the help, Johnny wouldn't come and help his daddy. But now his daddy's died and Johnny wants the $50,000 that comes from the USDA under this claim."

[firedupdem]

I get so angry reading stuff like this. How any African American can be a republican is still beyond me. I hate sharing the world with people like this guy, I can't imagine sharing the same political party.

[Ikonoklast]

I wonder what it's like living a life and every moment being afraid of everyone that isn't exactly like you.

[SeattleGirl]

Ooooh, can't let those black and brown folk have any money. No how, no way, no sir, no ma'am! Everyone knows all the money should go to the pasty white people!

I hope this racist fuck gets a triple dose of karma!

[atomic]

Well King will strike out on Acorn. AGs of both California and New York investigated and all they found were doctored tapes to discredited Acorn and nothing else. Unfortunately the Republicans will probably block funding the settlement arrived at with the black farmers.

[firedupdem]

(12-31-2010 12:50 PM)eliz@sf Wrote:  Well King will strike out on Acorn. AGs of both California and New York investigated and all they found were doctored tapes to discredited Acorn and nothing else. Unfortunately the Republicans will probably block funding the settlement arrived at with the black farmers.

So the funding isn't voted on and over with? I thought this whole thing was resolved and they were just crying about it! Oh my....these bastards!

[pappy]

It's dog whistle time I see and King is playing a tune for the racist wing of the Republican party.

[Peadar O Suileabhain]

When all else fails, make shit up.

[The Stapler]

This goes far beyond a 'dog whistle' comment; everyone can hear King's racist blather.

[Treestar]

And of course his example is a hypo. Talk about a dog whistle. Sounds just like their fictional welfare recipients and their false claim that people stay on it for generations all the time.