Alrighty, who's down for a quick little lesson on how much you should despise the media?
We've covered it on this site a couple of times (here and here), but white farmers in the United States were discriminated against when it came to USDA loan forgiveness under the Biden administration.
Here is how the Associated Press, a newswire that sends supposedly "fair and unbiased" stories out to THOUSANDS of global sources, has covered this story.
Exhibit A, from 2021:
White farmers sue because they want loan forgiveness. No headline mention that they were explicitly excluded in the government's Covid-19 loan program. No indication in the headline of who they are suing.
It's just angry white farmers who want a piece of the pie, right?
The AP even made sure to include this to let you know that discrimination against blacks is the real problem:
Still, less than 2% of direct loans from the Trump administration in 2020 went to Black farmers. And some Black farmers have criticized Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for failing to address a backlog of discrimination complaints and failing to hire minorities for high-level positions.
Exhibit B, from 2024:
This is from another racist USDA loan which, essentially, acted as a farmers reparation bill.
Black and minority farmers (read: anyone who is not a white male) got $2 billion from the government and the AP framing puts a heroic black farmer front and center.
The story of this single farmer is the bulk of the report. The intent of focusing on an emotional anecdote is clear.
Boyd said he's watched as his loan applications were torn up and thrown in the trash, been called racial epithets, and was told to leave in the middle of loan meetings so the officer could speak to white farmers.
The claims of one farmer are the focus, while mention of the national lawsuits against the Biden administration for his racist policy is just a blip buried paragraphs down.
Exhibit C, from 2025:
In the headline, we have a poor, trodden-upon white dairy farmer with a personal profile picture. Why? Because he is suing the TRUMP administration for anti-white discrimination.
All of that info is in the headline, front and center. "Orange Man Bad hates white farmers!"
Of course, one paragraph into the story we get this:
A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.
The USDA, filled with career D.C. bureaucrats and pencil-pushing swamp creatures is continuing a policy?
Continuing whose policy, AP?
They do answer, but not in the headline.
Faust was among several farmers who successfully sued the Biden administration in 2021 for race discrimination in the USDA's Farmer Loan Forgiveness Plan.
The new lawsuit alleges the government has continued to implement diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were instituted under former President Joe Biden.
So Biden passed a racist law, the AP low-key published articles supporting the law - or at least featuring personal testimonies of why the law is good - but now the AP is featuring the plight of the farmers fighting against the law because ... Trump is president and hasn't yet rescinded the policy?
Gotta love the "objective" press.
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