{"id":4715,"date":"2021-03-18T11:48:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T11:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:48:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T11:48:30","slug":"the-lefts-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4715","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s New Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Consider the Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act<\/a>, a $5 billion monstrosity that Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock snuck into the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The bill aims to provide payments to \u201cBlack farmers, Indigenous farmers, and farmers of color.\u201d It includes $1 billion to address \u201csystemic racism\u201d at the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill never says explicitly that blacks, Native Americans, or farmers who are immigrants from Latin America or their descendants should receive benefits; instead, it uses the term \u201csocially disadvantaged famers.\u201d For example, it instructs the secretary of agriculture to \u201cforgive the obligation of each socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher who is a borrower of a farm loan made by the Secretary to repay the principal and interest outstanding as of the date of enactment of this Act on the farm loan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warnock\u2019s bill explains that \u201cthe term \u2018socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher\u2019 has the meaning given the term in 19 section 2501(a) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990.\u201d As that law explains<\/a>, \u201cThe term \u2018socially disadvantaged group\u2019 means a group whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities.\u201d Department of Agriculture regulations<\/a> also \u201cdefine socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers as belonging to the following groups: American Indians or Alaskan Natives, Asians, Blacks or African Americans, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, and women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, membership in any of these racial, ethnic, or gender categories automatically<\/em> entitles a farmer to benefits, \u201cwithout regard to individual qualities.\u201d As University of Maryland professor George La Noue has written<\/a>, \u201csocial disadvantage is, as a practical matter, established at birth, and cannot be challenged by evidence of a successful life.\u201d These are the makings of a rigid caste system in America.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These and other bills in the works create entitlements based on race or ethnicity, not need. If the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, were to turn part of her California estate into farmland, she, too, would get federal money, as could former President Barack Obama, NBA legend Michael Jordan, and Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. It is that absurd.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“All of this is likely unconstitutional, violating the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause, as well Titles VI and VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Will the courts strike down these laws? Or will they use them to build on the illegitimate new \u201cconstitution\u201d of racial preferences? We will see.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/the-lefts-new-constitution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Consider the Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act, a $5 billion monstrosity that Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock snuck into the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The bill aims to provide payments to \u201cBlack farmers, Indigenous farmers, and farmers of color.\u201d It includes $1 billion to address \u201csystemic racism\u201d at the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

The bill never says explicitly that blacks, Native Americans, or farmers who are immigrants from Latin America or their descendants should receive benefits; instead, it uses the term \u201csocially disadvantaged famers.\u201d For example, it instructs the secretary of agriculture to \u201cforgive the obligation of each socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher who is a borrower of a farm loan made by the Secretary to repay the principal and interest outstanding as of the date of enactment of this Act on the farm loan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warnock\u2019s bill explains that \u201cthe term \u2018socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher\u2019 has the meaning given the term in 19 section 2501(a) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990.\u201d As that law explains, \u201cThe term \u2018socially disadvantaged group\u2019 means a group whose members have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice because of their identity as members of a group without regard to their individual qualities.\u201d Department of Agriculture regulations also \u201cdefine socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers as belonging to the following groups: American Indians or Alaskan Natives, Asians, Blacks or African Americans, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, and women.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, membership in any of these racial, ethnic, or gender categories automatically entitles a farmer to benefits, \u201cwithout regard to individual qualities.\u201d As University of Maryland professor George La Noue has written, \u201csocial disadvantage is, as a practical matter, established at birth, and cannot be challenged by evidence of a successful life.\u201d These are the makings of a rigid caste system in America.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“These and other bills in the works create entitlements based on race or ethnicity, not need. If the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, were to turn part of her California estate into farmland, she, too, would get federal money, as could former President Barack Obama, NBA legend Michael Jordan, and Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. It is that absurd.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“All of this is likely unconstitutional, violating the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause, as well Titles VI and VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Will the courts strike down these laws? Or will they use them to build on the illegitimate new \u201cconstitution\u201d of racial preferences? We will see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[225,1216,642,238],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-agriculture","tag-ethnicity","tag-race","tag-subsidies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4716,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}