A whistleblower has come forward with explosive allegations about racial discrimination in the Biden administration's farmer loan forgiveness program, claiming the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) deliberately excluded white male farmers from receiving debt relief.
According to Breitbart, the anonymous USDA insider revealed that the only qualification for loan forgiveness was being a non-white male farmer, drawing parallels to the controversial Pigford settlement from over a decade ago.
The whistleblower's claims suggest that USDA officials attempted to keep the racially-targeted program under wraps due to concerns about potential backlash over race-based loan forgiveness decisions.
The current controversy bears striking similarities to the Pigford scandal of 2010, which involved compensation for black farmers who faced historical discrimination from the USDA. That settlement, reached during the Clinton administration, later expanded under President Obama's tenure.
The original Pigford case resulted in a $1.33 billion settlement that extended beyond the initial 91 plaintiffs to include thousands of Hispanic and female farmers who had not previously claimed discrimination in court.
Then-presidential candidate Barack Obama leveraged the promise of expanded compensation to secure crucial support in South Carolina during his 2008 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton.
The anonymous USDA insider disclosed the specifics of the current loan forgiveness initiative during an exclusive interview with NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas Reports, highlighting the program's explicit racial criteria.
Farmer James Dunlap expressed his disbelief at the program's parameters, stating: "To me, it was just combating racism with more racism. I couldn't believe it was happening in today's age."
One particularly concerning aspect is that Tom Vilsack, who served as Agriculture Secretary during both the Obama administration's Pigford settlement and the current Biden administration, oversees the department implementing these controversial policies.
The New York Times eventually validated earlier investigations into the Pigford settlement, revealing widespread fraud and questionable claims processes that didn't require documentary evidence of discrimination.
Critics pointed out that claims came from unlikely sources, including urban residents and young children, often submitted with identical discrimination accounts in matching handwriting.
Internal USDA documents from March 2010 revealed that new settlements were viewed as a strategy to "neutralize the argument that the government favors black farmers over Hispanic, Native American or women farmers."
The latest whistleblower allegations suggest that discriminatory practices persist within the USDA, as officials reportedly implemented a loan forgiveness program that explicitly excluded white male farmers from receiving financial assistance.
These revelations have reignited debates about the fairness of race-based agricultural policies and their potential violation of equal protection principles under federal law.
The controversy adds another chapter to the ongoing saga of USDA loan forgiveness programs, with Secretary Vilsack once again at the center of allegations regarding racially discriminatory practices in agricultural assistance programs.
