Rajjpuut's Folly: Quadruple Play for Pigford, Glickman, Sherrod and Obama?

Did Shirley Sherrod, Barack Obama

Lead $1.25 Billion Fraud?

There was once a thought that the 1997 legal case Pigford v. Glickman might someday rival the famous Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka as an example of institutional and systemic racial discrimination finally refuted by the courts. Indeed the junior Illinois senator, pushing the reincarnation of the case in 2007, was purportedly sure to get a big boost from the case in his run for the presidency . . . but today . . . matters seem a little bit murkier.

Discussing a recent high-profile instance of supposed “racism,” Black political blogger Willie Brown of the famous “Willie’s World,” blog apparently agrees with Rajjpuut’s assessment in a recent blog that Shirley Sherrod is a sewer, ‘er “suer” . . . Mr. Brown put it like this, “ . . . you don't fire someone without at least hearing their side of the story unless you want them gone in the first place. This woman has been a thorn in the side of the Agriculture Department for years. She was part of a class-action lawsuit against the department on behalf of black farmers in the South. For years, she has been operating a community activist organization not unlike ACORN. I think there were those in the Agriculture Department who objected to her being hired in the first place.”

Actually, Willy, “thorn in the side” doesn’t quite say it all: you see, Shirley Sherrod and her husband received the single largest payoff, $13 Million, in the Pigford v. Glickman lawsuit. She was definitely a leader among the claimants which won their suit against the Ag Dept. for racism shown by the department’s supposedly continual policy of denying loans and lines of credit to Black farmers. Eight years after Shirley’s big payday, the revival of Pigford v. Glickman by former ACORN lawyer, Barack Obama, resulted in 86,000 claims for a total of $1.25 Billion dollars in payouts an average of $14,500 per farmer. Only one problem, the census in 2000 showed far fewer than 40,000 Black farmers in the entire country.

That amounts to less than half the 86,000 claims in the class action suit. How likely is it that all 39,000 of them joined the suit and averaged 2 1/3 claims each against the Ag Dept . . . when you add in the fact that the case was settled quietly without the media even knowing about it and that monstrous $1.25 Billion settlement makes one wonder if the “fix was in,” Mr. Obama. Of course, Ms. Sherrod’s successful claim amounted to almost $1,000 times the size of the average claim so that just one of the 86,000 claimants received 1% of all the money awarded. Like so much in this administration, here’s just one more matter that begs to be investigated by an independent counsel . . . .

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

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Rajjpuut's Folly: Quadruple Play for Pigford, Glickman, Sherrod and Obama?

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