Ted Turner is one of the biggest landowners in America, being a big hearted lib he could give them some of his land. 40 acres and a buffalo.
Posted on 06/29/2020 3:56:01 PM PDT by Trump20162020
Innovations by Black farmers remain at the core of sustainable agriculture today.
Black people have largely been expelled from the US agricultural landscape. In 1920, nearly a million Black farmers worked on 41.4 million acres of land, making up a seventh of farm owners. Today, only about 49,000 of them remain, making up just 1.4 percent of the nation’s farm owners, and tending a scant 4.7 million acres—a nearly 90 percent loss.
This didn’t happen by accident. Since Emancipation, Black farmers have had to fight for a share of this country’s fertile ground, due to a history of racist policies and land theft. But modern sustainable agriculture owes much to Black agriculturalists, explained Leah Penniman, co-director of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York and author of Farming While Black, on a recent episode of Bite.
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South Africa all over again.
They need to talk to the injuns.
If they’re doing that, there are a lot of white folk in that line with as much claim.
What share? I don’t have a share either and I am white.
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White is the NEW Black.
Maybe that’s the same cornfield in the X-Files where they were infecting the the bees to sting with the black oil...
Buh I is gots t'hab da grills fo' ma teef.
This is what they did in South Africa to white farmers. Ran them off or killed them and just took over their land without out compensation. Then the leaders had the gall to go to England and ask the white folks there to bail them out of the financial disaster they created...just like the Democratic Mayors and Governors want the rest of the US to bail them out of the disasters they created.
They should buy it???
What a racist thing to say. They are ENTITLED to it because of whitey. It’ll be in the reparations package.
(Yes, just kidding)
How many left the farms VOLUNTARILY for the better paying industrial and factory jobs in the north?
Were they really “expelled”?
There are always vultures hanging around the Court House looking for land that people have failed to pay their real estate taxes on. The courts often have auctions of tax delinquent land for sale.
Well then they shouldn’t complain then!
exact thought reading the headline. whoa.
Ted Turner is one of the biggest landowners in America, being a big hearted lib he could give them some of his land. 40 acres and a buffalo.
It is an industry like any other. You run it efficiently and at large scale you can make money. “40 acres and a mule” just won’t make it. Nor will a patchwork of small fields.
I’d wager the government benefits and cash money in the ghetto (no work required) is a lot higher than the income they’d make farming (very hard work).
Everything is racist nowadays. Meh.
I’m from the south and I can’t afford land... much less any to give away. And, I’ve never owned a slave, either.
Let’s not forget the Pig Farmers.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration dropped the ball on a $1.25 billion deal to settle decades-old discrimination lawsuits with black farmers, an advocate for the group said on Friday after the government failed to meet a key deadline.
The deal, one of the largest civil rights settlements in history, was to compensate black farmers left out of federal farm loan and assistance programs due to racism.
But it was contingent on Congress approving $1.15 billion in funding by March 31. Lawmakers left for a two-week break on Friday without approving the deal, leaving it in limbo.
“The president made a strong commitment to show leadership to get this done, and basically we haven’t seen him show that leadership,” said John Boyd Jr., head of the National Black Farmers Association.
“The president didn’t help us finish the job,” Boyd said.
The deal reached last month was hailed by President Barack Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Attorney General Eric Holder as a milestone in righting historic wrongs.
The farmers had urged the administration to declare the settlement an emergency, which would waive Congress from the so-called “pay-go” requirement to trim budgets for other programs to fund the payments.
The 2008 Farm Bill had provided for $100 million in payments. Boyd and key lawmakers met with Vilsack this week in a last-ditch effort to get the waiver for the rest.
Vilsack told reporters the administration was working through complex legal and jurisdictional issues, in part because of rules established in the Farm Bill.
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