(AOL Black Voices) — The U.S. Senate has been criticized for dragging its feet on the compensation for black farmers in the famous Pigford Discrimination case. The case was supposedly settled between an alliance of black farmers and Tom Vilsack, the United States Secretary of Agriculture. The Obama Administration has promised an extra $1.25 billion to settle the claims of the lawsuit.
Although a settlement had been reached, the Senate failed to move forward with the authorization to release the funds. That has led to a tremendous amount of frustration on the part of black farmers, who’ve been patiently waiting for the first black president and his colleagues to make amends for the discrimination they’ve suffered for decades.
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