Black Farmers Celebrate the 10th Annual Rosa Parks Day in California

Sacramento, CA ~ Black Farmers are still looking for justice from the U.S. Congress.

We join First Lady Michelle Obama in the celebration, Let's Move, toward a new paradigm that begins to restore dignity and respect for Pigford claimants and the broder black communities impacted by the ongoing challenges to obtain equity and equal opportunity.

Mr. Timothy Pigford, joined our celebration in spirit and called to share his historical perspective toward seeking the essential financing necessary for Black Agriculture to join the global marketplace and rebuild healthy family relationships through economic empowerment.

More than a decade after the Federal Government reached a landmark settlement during the Clinton Administration, the ongoing challenges remain that have cheated generations of black farmers and there communities through "indifference and blatant discrimination."

In the consent decree, Judge Friedman sought to make the Pigford claimants whole yet still await justice. Let's Move.

President Obama's budget confirms a request for $1.15 billion to pay still-pending claims from black farmers. The same amount was requested last year but did not survive the self-interested knives and elbows of the Congressional budget scrum, according to the NY Times Editorial.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack would like to "close this unfortunate chapter" in his vast department of over 100,000 employees. Bipartisan Congressional support toward "Let's Move" Black History Month 2010 we will begin a new chapter of Black Agriculture in the 21st Century, embracing inclusion, equity and equal opportunity.

Pigford v. Vilsack will resonate across the land as a historic new beginning for a class of Black Farmers from (1981 - 1996.)

Black History Month is nothing with recalling the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants—whether or not they were slaves—were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens of the United States.

Timothy Pigford, and thousands of black farmers nationwide represent a dying generation that served as the essential cornerstone foundation of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1940 - 1970, many will celebrate vindication in their lifetime and many more have died with dreams destroyed, families torn apart and generations my suffer adverse health related disease.

Tonight, First Lady Michelle Obama will have a nation enjoying the Music of the Civil Rights Movement, after a full day of outlining a major paradigm shift. Let's Move is exactly the positive action Rosa Parks parents created when she was born 97 year ago.

Let's Move away from systemic institutional racism, Let's Move away from failed policy of exclusion, Let's Move toward resolving the destruction of Black Farm communities Rosa Parks was born, Let's Move toward empowering those most impacted by childhood obesity, diabetes, heart disease.

Let's Move creation of a Nationwide Action Plan with liberty and justice for all, beginning with Black Farmers who for generations produced the Healthy Solutions desired today.

In our nations #1 Agriculture region, Black Farmers and Agriculturalists are an endangered species. Each year Black History Month the World Ag Expo in California highlights our absence from any meaningful participation in World Ag markets

Black Agriculture, job creation, career development and sustainable communities are physically on critical life support systems, nationwide. Let's Move together like Spirit in Water and continue to pay tribute to Rosa Parks.