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 nations farm owners, and tending a scant 4.7 million acresa nearly 90 percent loss.
This didnt happen by accident. Since Emancipation, Black farmers have had to fight for a share of this countrys 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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This problem of lack of title is also acute on the Indian reservations. It’s a big topic in international developmental economics as well. Private property rights are foundational. This is one of the big reasons, along with the knowledge problem, why socialism always fails.
Civil war against what? Actual rioters vs. keyboard Superman? They are already burning down the country with no shots fired from us. Aint going to be a civil war because we already surrendered!
Gee, the government let these poor folks down.....but they keep voting for more government.
There is plenty of cheap land available. I moved from the burbs to rural PA. Greatest folks on the planet. They look out for their neighbors, accept anyone willing to work their ass off and bail out those who are new and don’t know what they are doing. These folks don’t have time to worry about what color your skin is.....dirty hands are all the same color.
The Pigford settlement was a scam and was known to be a scam. It was a straightforward and entirely corrupt political payoff. Most knowledgeable people at USDA were spitting nails mad about it, but the agency had been sold out by the politicos in charge and there was nothing to be done about it.
The sold and moved into steelworking, etc....like many whites did.
Funny no mention of inheritance taxes
From a really stupid mother!!!!
I assume it did not happen “by accident”. I assume it happened because rich companies offered premium prices for the small plots of farmland owned by both black and white farmers, and the rich companies are considered “white-owned” because every company owned by shareholders, a majority will likely be white.
Socialist rag has to invent weeks faux Crisis.
OMG LOL, LOL, hope they wont need to eat anytime soon!!!
That’s close to what I wanted to say!!!!
Just like zimbabwe.
White is the new Ni_BONG.
*** Hubs and I have worked with older black fellows who talked about inheriting their grandparents places down South, and-or getting settlement money from USDA due to unfair lending practices. ***
My Mom used to receive those USDA payout notices. IIRC, they were for women, blacks, and native Americans.
We just threw them in the trash.
At this point, if they tried to run and hide, we’d hunt them down and neutralize them.
My dad was right - the only good commie is a dead commie.
How many of the blacks headed to Detroit to work in the auto industry?
My father remembers blacks working in the auto industry....Ford Motor Company... just before World War II.
That's BS. There were plenty of slaves in the North. Not just on farms, but in the textile industry and in the home.
How many freed black slaves received the 40 acres offered to them by the government at the end of the CW? The Southern farmers had to take what little land they could get and they worked the soil and grew farms by hand. Some of them managed to eek out a living off the land and they passed that down to their sons who added what they could to the farm and those farms were passed from generation to the next. That is why more farms are owned by white people. My guess is that the free slaves had no interest in farming after being forced to work the fields for so long. It’s not surprising that they wanted to do something else. So they sold the land or bought a house and worked for a salary and did pretty well and some excelled and became rich. It all went down the drain when liberal idiots started treating them like “slaves” again. They had to be “taken care of” with “Welfare:, and that was the beginning of the down fall of real pride among the black population. God Bless the ones who kept the freedom that so many died for. Just my Southern opinion.
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