Jay Dickey: “Now what we have is one last plea on my part on behalf of the black farmers. My statement of January 8 was we cannot…”

“Now what we have is one last plea on my part on behalf of the black farmers. My statement of January 8 was we cannot proceed any further without my colleagues in Congress being supportive of this effort. If we vote this concurrent resolution down, we are going to be changing it from legislative remedies to political, and I beg my colleagues not to do that. These black farmers have not, in any way, done anything to deserve this, to be considered a political football, that someone has to be of a certain party or had to be a certain type of person to be able to bring something like this. It is a legislative matter. It is brought so that we can show concurrence. That is what it is. I plead with my colleagues to let this pass so that we can, at least, say we are in unity with the black farmers. And then we can go forward from there.”