Staffers in the White House Talk to Lawrence Lucas, President Emeritus

Politics is a strange thing. Those in high places seem to be so removed from the ordinariness of our lives. Occasionally those in high places communicate with us and thus create relationship via email or telephone of Zoom. This exchange is far more complicated that it appears. These two gentlemen responded to our queries, and I sent to them 9 documents. Yes, 9 documents to Secretary Vilsack that were languishing somewhere with no response from him to us other than once back in May of 2021. 

Waymon Hinson

21 January 2022

 Good morning.

 

Below is part of a host of information we compiled  to give the White House an idea of the gravity of the systemic racism & other abuses that remain at the US Department of Agriculture. Yes, "This is Us".

Blaming Trump is too easy: This is us.

 

As a followup we are requesting a meeting with President Biden.Tom Vilsack for Agriculture was his choice over the advice of many others to not select him for the position.

 

We see clearly that little to nothing is being to change the systemic racism at USDA. Vilsack runs the USDA like a plantation & we are please to give clarity to the President in this regard. Buying popularity is well known & that is what is happening in real time at USDA.

 

We want to see change at USDA now.....not later. If not now, when? If not now, why not?

 

https://blackfarmersinsearchofjusticefilm.com/

 

Respectfully,

 

Larwence Lucas, President Emeritus

USDA Coalition of Minority Employees

Justice for Black Farmers Group

856/ 9102399. 202/744-4384 cell

www.agcoalition.org

1/22/2022 
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Correspondence and documentation January 22, 2022

Thank you for compiling this for us, Mr. Hinson. We will review and please don’t hesitate to reach out if there’s something else you think would be helpful.

Thanks,

Will 

January 22, 2022

 

William McIntee

Cedric Richmond

White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington DC 20050

 

RE: Follow-Up Documentation/Letters Sent to Secretary Tom Vilsack

 

Attached are letters sent to Tom Vilsack per your request on Wednesday, January 19, 2022.

 

We would hope that this information will bring about a dialogue between the White House, USDA Coalition for Minority Employees, and Justice for Black Farmers Group. That said, it is with hope that our joint effort will fix the dysfunctional civil rights process and administration at USDA once and for all. We have been at this point before and we were met with disappointment and the absence of positive change. In the process, our legacy farmers continue to die without seeing justice.

 

We are cautiously optimistic that the Biden White House can be that needed change. We are hoping with the information and you that the Clinton Administration model to fix USDA will be revisited.  

 

What will the White House do differently than Tom Vilsack? We want to see immediate change and accountability.

 

We want a level field and silence for us is not an option.

                                                                                                                                             

Sincerely,

 

 

Lawrence Lucas, President Emeritus

USDA Coalition of Minority Employees

Representative, Justice for Black Farmers Group

>www.agcoalition.org<

LawrLCL@aol.com

856-910-2399

 

In remembrance of Dr. King:

 

"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. “

 

"In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.