CNN’s Victor Blackwell had two crazy takes as he hosted Saturday’s First of All. First, he claimed that the National Portrait Gallery not featuring a painting of a black, female transgender Statue of Liberty was some great affront to history, and secondly, he lamented that the Department of Agriculture is ending race-based farm grants.
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After returning from commercials, Blackwell scoffed, “The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will no longer provide support for minority farmers.”
Blackwell then introduced his guest, Asian American Farmers Alliance founder Mai Nguyen, and asked a question that he clearly had a desired answer for, “So, the USDA’s going to stop using this term ‘socially disadvantaged,’ which ends certain special grants for black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic farmers. They say, ‘We fixed the problems of the past.’ Have they fixed them?”
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