BILL THAT JOE BIDEN SIGNED INTO LAW EARLIER THIS YEAR HAD MONEY FOR EVERYTHING. FROM COVID VACCINES TO STIMULUS CHECKS, TO A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO BIDEN'S ONLYFANS. AND IT IT ALSO GAVE $4 BILLION IN LOAN FORGIVENESS TO BLACK FARMERS. WHICH IT TURNS OUT NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY ABOUT. >> JOE BIDEN SPENT BILLIONS OF DOLLAR ARE-- SENT BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN FARMERS PURELY BECAUSE OF HOW THEY LOOK. THAT IS ILLEGAL, IT IS IMMORAL T IS COMPLETELY DIVISIVE. >> IT NOT A BILL FOR BLACK FARMERS, IT IS A BILL AGAINST WHITE FARMERS. >> I DON'T THINK THEY UNDERSTAND THEIR BUSINESS ONE BIT. NOBODY ASKS YOU WHAT RACE YOU ARE WHEN YOU TO FERT LEADSER. >> WHITE FARMERS NEED NOT APPLY BY VIRLT U OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. >> THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS BECOMING THE PARTY OF REVERSE RACISM. >> FARMERS ARE BEING DENIED AID SOLELY BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR, IN THIS COUNTRY YOU DO NOT PUNISH PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY LOOK A CERTAIN WAY, BECAUSE THEIR ANCESTORS COME FROM A CERTAIN PLACE, BECAUSE IF THE GOVERNMENT HAS THE POWER TO DESTROY A BUSINESS BECAUSE OF HOW SOMEONE LOOKS, WHAT IS NEXT, PUT SOMEONE IN JAIL BECAUSE OF HOW THEY LOOK? I MEAN WHAT IF THEY MAKE IT ILLEGAL TO LOOK LIKE A TESTICLE THAT JUST ESCAPED A SCROTUM, JUST AS AN, AMPLE. BUT IT ISN'T JUST FOX NEWS GAR GOILS UPSET ABOUT THIS AID TO BLACK FARMERS. PLAS WEEK A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKED THE AID FROM GOING INTO EFFECT WHILE A LAWSUIT FROM WHITE FARMERS PROCEEDS THROUGH THE COURT SYSTEM. YOU MIGHT BE HEARING THIS STORY FOR THE FIRST TIME AND WONDERING WAIT, WHY SHOULD BLACK FARMERS GET SPECIAL TREATMENT. ARE THEIR COWS THE ONES THAT MAKE CHOCOLATE MILK? >> WELL, YES, BUT FLA IS NOT WHY. REAL REASON IS SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO EXPLORE IN ANOTHER EDITION OF IF YOU DON'T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW. >> WHEN YOU PICTURE A FARMER IN YOUR HEAD, WHAT DO YOU SEE? CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK ABOUT IT. OH YEAH, PROBABLY A GUY3IN OVERALLS STANDING NEXT TO A TRACTOR, CHEWING ON A PIECE OF HEY, OR VAPING, IF HE IS TRYING TO QUIT, LET'S BE HONEST, YOU CAN OPEN YOUR EYES, THAT FARMER IN YOUR HEAD IS ALSO PROBABLY A WHITE GUY. BUT YOU MAY BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT THERE WAS A TIME IN AMERICA WHEN FARMING WAS AN AS POPULAR AMONG BLACK PEOPLE AS TELFAR BAGS. >> BY FORCE AND BY CHOICE, BLACK PEOPLE HAVE LONG, DISEEP CONNECTIONS TO AMERICAN FARMLAND AS IT BEFALLS SLAVERY, OWNING A PIECE OF LAND THAT COULD BE WORKED AND FARMED, SYMBOLIZED FREEDOM. >> DURING RECONSTRUCTION BLACK FOLKS SAVED THEIR MONEY, THEY WORKED TOGETHER AS A FAMILY, AS A COOPERATIVE AND BOWLT LAND THAT ALLOWED BLACK FAMILIES TO BUILD COMMUNITIES, 16 MILLION ACRES. >> AT THE PEEK OF BLACK FARM OWNERSHIP AROUND 1920, MAYBE ABOUT 15 PERSZ OF FARMERS-- PERCENT OF FARMERS WERE AFRICAN-AMERICANS. >> A PLACE WHERE YOU COULD NOT VOTE, ONE WAY THAT BLACK FOLKS WERE ABLE TO EXERT POWER WAS HAVING SOME CONTROL OVER THE LAND UNDER THEIR FEET. >> Trevor: THAT'S RIGHT. BACK IN THE DAY, 15 PERCENT OF ALL AMERICAN FARMERS WERE BLACK. AND THAT IS THE KIND OF REPRESENTATION THAT GOLDEN GLOBES CAN ONLY DREAM OF. IT IS TRUE THERE WEREN'T A LOT OF OTHER PROFESSIONS IN THE 1920S, BACK THEN IT WAS BASICALLY JUST FARMING, TELEGRAPH PRAILTER AND CRASH LANDING AIRPLANES BUT IT NAKES SENSE THAT FARMING WOULD BE ESPECIALLY APPEALING TO BLACK PEOPLE. BECAUSE OWNING ANYTHING WAS INCREDIBLE FOR BLACK PEOPLE BACK THEN. BECAUSE DON'T FORGET, JUST A GENERATION BEFORE THAT, BLACK PEOPLE WERE CONSIDERED PROPERTY. PROPERTY. I MEAN IMAGINE IF YOUR GRANDAD WAS A TV AND NOW YOU OWN A WHOLE TV COMPANY, THAT'S SUCCESS. SO IF THERE WERE SO MANY BLACK FARMERS BACK IN THE DAY, WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM ALL? DID SOMEBODY FINALLY TELL THEM ABOUT SPORTS? NO, IT TURNS OUT IT WAS AMERICA'S AGE OLD FRIEND, SYSTEMIC RACISM. >> WHITE FOLKS RECOGNIZED PRETTY EARLY ON THAT ONE WAY TO STOP THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVE AM, ONE WAY TO UNDERCUT IT WAS TO GET RID OF LAND OWNERSHIP. >> OVER THE LAST CENTURY AMERICA'S BLACK FARMERS HAVE LOST MORE THAN 90% OF THEIR LAND BECAUSE OF SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION AND A CYCLE OF DEBT. >> THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE HAS A LONG HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION, A STUDY COMMISSIONED BY THE USDA FOUND THAT LOANS TO BLACK MALE FARMERS WERE 25% LOWER THAN THOSE GIVEN TO WHITE MALE FARMERS ON AVERAGE. >> FOR DECADES THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SYSTEMICALLY FAVORED WHITE FARMERS BY DENYING LOANS TO BLACK FARMERS. AND DISCRIMINATION WAS WIDESPREAD AT ITS LOCAL BRANCHES WHICH WERE LARGELY RUN BY ALL WHITE COUNTY COMMITTEES. >> MANY BLACK FARMERS WOULD COMING INTO THE OFFICE AND THE LOCAL OFFICIAL WOULD SAY WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY AVAILABLE. AND WHEN WHITE FARMERS CAME IN, THEY WOULD PROCESS THEIR LOANS, LESS THAN 30 DAYS AND FOR BLACK FARMERS IT TOOK 387 DAYS ON AVERAGE. >> WE FILL OUT THE PAPERS, AND THEN THEY WOULD JUST TAKE THE PAPERWORK AND JUST THROW IT IN THE TRASH. >> WITHOUT THE SAME ACCESS TO FUNDS, BLACK FARMERS STRUGGLED TO KEEP UP WITH THEIR WHITE COMPETITORS, AND ARE OFTEN FORCED OUT OF BUSINESS. >> WE'RE TALKING 177 TO 230 BILLION DOLLARS THAT BLACK FARMERS HAVE LOST BECAUSE OF ACTIVE DISCRIMINATION. >> Trevor: THAT'S RIGHT, FOR DECADES THE USDA ACTIVELY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BLACK FARMERS GIVING THEM SMALLER LOANS THAN WHITE FARMERS OR OUTRIGHT REFUSING TO GIVE THEM LOANS ALL TOGETHER. AND THAT IS ACCORDING TO THE USDA. THAT IS LIKE DIGGING UP YOUR OWN AND CANCELING YOURSELF. GO AWAY, ME, BUT THAT IS HOW BAD THIS DISCRIMINATION WAS. AND FARMING IS HARD ENOUGH ON ITS OWN. THINK ABOUT T YOU GOT PESTS, YOU'VE GOT DROUGHT, GHOSTS TRYING TO GET YOU TO BUILD A BASEBALL FIELD. LAST THING YOU NEED IS FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BE UP AGAINST YOU. AND AFTER DECADES OF DISCRIMINATION, BLACK FARMERS HAD HAD ENOUGH. AND SO THEY TOOK THEIR COMPLAINTS RIGHT TO THE TOP. >> BLACK FARMERS FIRST PICK ETED THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN 1996, ABOUT 50 SHOWED UP WITH A PAIR OF MULES AND A WAGON. PROTESTING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, THOUSANDS HAD SENT IN COMPLAINTS BUT FOUND THE CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICE AT THE USDA HAD BEEN CLOSED FOR YEARS AND BOXES OF THEIR LETTERS REMAINED UNOPEN. >> IN 1999 THOUSANDS OF BLACK FARMERS SETTLED A HISTORIC CLASS ACTION DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE USDA IN A LANDMARK CASE CALL PIGFORD VER WHRIK MFNLT THE GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO SAY UP TO-- MANY EVING 50,000 EACH. >> THE VAST MAJORITY NEVER RECEIVED A DIME. AN OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF FARMERS WERE DUBBED LATE FILERS, WHEN THEIR APPLICATIONS TRICKLED TO OFFICE IN-BOXES AFTER A 180 DAY DEADLINE. >> TENSE OF THOUSANDS OF BLACK FARMERS CLAIMED THEY DID NOT RECEIVE PROPER NOTIFICATION OF THE SETTLEMENT. >> FOR SO MANY OF THEM, IT'S BEEN RED TAPE AND SETBACKS EVER SINCE. 11 YEARS OF SPLITTING TIME BETWEEN THE FIELDS AND CAPITOL HILL, STAGING PROTESTS, EVEN RIDING TRACKERS THROUGH DOWNTOWN DC TO GET ATTENTION FROM CONGRESS. >> Trevor: NOW THIS, THIS IS HOW YOU PROTEST. RIDING TRACTORS AND MULES INTO DOWNTOWN D.C., NOT ONLY ARE YOU BRINGING ATTENTION TO YOUR CAUSE, BUT RIDING A MULE IS THE ONE TIME A COP CAN'T PULL YOU OVER FOR A BUSTED TAIL LIGHT. >> AND THEY HAD TO TAKE SOME EXTREME MEASURES. BECAUSE IF ANYONE KNOWS BULLSHIT IT WAS FARMERS AND THIS WAS BEFL SOME BULLSHIT. THE GOVERNMENT BASICALLY ADMITTED THAT IT OWED THE FARMERS MONEY, BUT THEN BOGGED THEM DOWN IN RED TAPE. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, MACHINE, IF YOU LOSE A LAWSUIT, THE HEARING SHOULD END WITH THE BAILIVE MARCHING YOU TO THE ATM TO WATCH YOU WITHDRAW THAT MONEY. OH, OOPSIE, LOOKS LIKE I FORGOT MY PIN, OH WELL. IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY BACK AWARDS, MAN, JUST DO IT. NOW THE GOVERNMENT TRIED TO FIX THINGS IN 2011 BY PROVIDING SOME MORE FUNDING TO BLACK FARMERS. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, IT CAME TOO LATE FOR MANY OF THEM AND IT STILL FELL FAR SHORT OF THE ECONOMIC LOSSES THEY HAD SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF THE USDA. SO THE NEXT TIME YOU HEAR PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT HOW BLACK FARMERS ARE GETTING EXTRA SPECIAL TREATMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT, THINK ABOUT THE TREATMENT THAT THEY HAVE BRCH GETTING FOR THE LAST 100 YEARS. AND YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE UPSET ABOUT THIS LOAN FORGIVENESS, THEY MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW THAT ALL OF THIS DISCRIMINATION EVEN HAPPENED. AND THAT'S WHY WE DECIDED TO UPDATE THE MOST FAMOUS SONG ABOUT FARMERS TO BETTER EXPRESS THE BLACK FARMING EXPERIENCE. OLD BLACK DONALD HAD A FARM COULDN'T GET A LOAN. ♪ NOW THE ONLY FARM HE'S GOT. ♪ IS ON HIS MOBILE PHONE. ♪ CUZ RACISM HERE, RACISM THERE. HERE A RACIST, THERE A RACEI, OLD BLACK DONALD HAD A FARM. ♪ NOW HE WORKS AT KOHL'S. >> I'M ON MY BREAK! >> Trevor: ALL RIGHT, WHEN WE
