When President Biden took office, he didn’t just bring in a new cabinet — he brought in a new creed. One that judged Americans not by merit or need, but by skin color and sex. Under the banner of “equity,” the administration set loose a coordinated effort to discriminate in the name of fairness. And few departments embodied this twisted mission more brazenly than the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Discrimination as Policy
In 2021, the USDA implemented a set of racial and gender-based criteria in disaster relief, farm loan forgiveness, and grant programs. These programs didn’t ask what kind of crops you grew, how bad the drought was, or what kind of hardship you faced — they asked what color you were. If you were the “right” color or sex, your odds of getting help went up. If not, you were out of luck.
This was not a rogue policy. It was the fruit of Biden’s Executive Order 13985, which directed every agency to prioritize race in decision-making. That EO was the lodestar for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” — a phrase that might as well read “division, exception, and injustice.”
The USDA’s implementation of these orders resulted in what legal experts rightly called unconstitutional discrimination. It created a two-tier system: one for the politically favored, another for the rest of America.
The Rollback — Too Little, Too Late?
In July 2025, the USDA, under new Secretary Xochitl Torres Small, was forced to scrap these discriminatory standards. Not out of principle, but because they were getting battered in court. Lawsuits by farmers — often poor, often struggling — were piling up. And the courts were siding with the Constitution, not the bureaucrats.
The USDA admitted that its actions were illegal. Not misguided. Not poorly executed. Illegal.
But don’t mistake this rollback for a change of heart. This was not repentance — it was retreat. The policy had already done its damage. For years, farmers were denied relief not because they didn’t qualify, but because they didn’t match the racial or sexual profile preferred by Washington.
The Broader Pattern: Bigotry in Every Bureau
This isn’t isolated to agriculture. This ideological racism is system-wide.
The Department of Education pushes racially biased admissions and curriculum. The Department of Defense embeds DEI officers with the power to affect promotions and assignments based on race and gender quotas. The Department of Energy gives out grants with race-based preferences.
Everywhere you look, equity has become the backdoor to bigotry.
This isn’t compassion. It’s Marxism, repackaged. Divide people by class, race, or category. Replace individual worth with group identity. Then empower the state to “rebalance” the scales through coercion. That is not equality. That is tyranny.
America Must Burn the Weeds at the Root
To preserve a free Republic, we must do more than repeal bad programs — we must root out the ideology that birthed them. Any federal policy that treats race or sex as a qualification must be purged. Any department that creates race-based rules must be investigated. Any official who knowingly signed off on such rules must be held accountable.
This is not merely administrative overreach. It is a moral perversion. It turns our highest principles — liberty, justice, equality under law — into weapons against the very people they were meant to protect.
America cannot survive this inversion of values.
We are either a country where the law sees all citizens equally, or we are not a country at all.
Sources
- “USDA ends Biden-era disaster relief program standards for farmers based on race, sex,” Just the News
- Executive Order 13985 — Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities
- Reuters: “US Agriculture agency to end consideration of race, sex in many farm programs”
- USDA Press Release, July 10, 2025
- FoodPrint: “Black Land Loss in the United States”
- AP News: Legal challenges to USDA race-based standards
- Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty: Litigation against USDA programs
- Pigford v. Glickman (1999) and Pigford II (2010) class action history
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