The US paid 2.2 billion dollars to Black farmers for discrimination

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 82 Marin Scotten, “After Years of Discrimination, U.S. Makes a Historic $2.2 Billion Payout to Black Farmers,” Salon, August 22, 2024. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1182

Categorization

• SEED: A concrete precedent of a US federal payout for racial discrimination in agriculture — useful in a brief as a domestic reparations analog.
• XREF: An existing federal payment for documented discrimination, parallel to the WWII Japanese American redress payments the book examines.