King Calls Farm Deal "Reparations"

King Calls Farm Deal "Reparations"

Steve King (R-Fox News) does it again, using not even code words:

Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who's been one of the most vocal opponents of the Pigford settlement for black farmers, has taken to cable news and the floor of the House to speak against the settlement. King's argument is that the bulk of the Pigford II claims are fraudulent because there are fewer black farmers than claimants -- a flimsy argument when you consider that many African-Americans lost their farms over the past few decades due, in part, to USDA discrimination that denied them loans -- which is the point of the settlement program.

On Monday night, he suggested that President Obama, as a senator, may have been prejudiced to help the black farmers.

"Figure this out, Madame Speaker: We have a very, very urban Senator, Barack Obama, who has decided he's going to run for president, and what does he do?" King said. "He introduces legislation to create a whole new Pigford claim."

He then said the claims -- which stem from discrimination against black farmers in the 1980s and 1990s -- are "slavery reparations."

Exhibiting the racial sensitivity he'll no doubt show chairing the Immigration subcommittee.

I knew people were going to go wacko over the prospect of a black president, but I always figured it would happen before the election, not after. Just a sign of how bad Bush screwed up... All the excitement about the new sheriff coming to town, followed swiftly by: