The $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that President Biden is set to sign includes billions of dollars in debt relief and other assistance for farmers –that is, unless those farmers are white. The incorporation of racist criteria for farmer relief is leaving white farmers scratching their heads. "Just because you’re a certain color you don’t have to pay back money? I don’t care if you’re purple, black, yellow, white, gray, if you borrow money you have to pay it back," said Kelly Griggs, who runs her 1,800-acre farm with her husband in Humboldt, Tennessee. "My reaction is, Where did common sense go?" Griggs said. "We can’t strike. We can’t stop. That's the part that really sucks. These people in Washington who make decisions for us and our livelihood have probably never stepped foot on a real farm." The relief package includes an estimated $4 billion to pay up to 120% of black, Hispanic, Asian or Native American – but not white – farmers' outstanding debt as of Jan. 1, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The package also designates about $1 billion for commissions, agricultural training, improved land access and other welfare to benefit only non-white farmers. Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., took issue with racism in agriculture provisions contemplated in the bill. "What happened to equal protection under the law? This is wrong and un-American. I’m sure there are a lot of Americans out there that would love to have our tax dollars pay off all their debts. This is targeted to a very select few," Graves wrote on Facebook on March 4. Kelly Griggs echoed his sentiment. "I’m going to have to pay for that," she said. Another farmer, Benji Anderson of Georgia, expressed concern about the provisions. "I think it should be distributed to everyone," Anderson said. "Because one thing we all have in common, it doesn’t matter about color or race or whatever, we’re all farmers, all working together to feed the United States." Anderson grows pecans and tobacco and said rising fertilizer and fuel prices are eating up his bottom line. "I see the inputs going up, and the end result is it's going to cost more to make a crop, so you really have got to make a yield to make any money," he said. Darrell Kay, who grows row crops and raises cows in northwest Georgia, also expressed concern about the rising input costs. He said separating farmers by race and ethnicity for debt relief seemed "wrong." "I'm not saying they don’t need it — don’t get me wrong, they probably do — but I don’t know what the circumstances are... that they’re giving them all that other money," Kay said. The racist farming provisions in the massive relief package were based on a bill spearheaded by Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who is black.