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White People Own 98 Percent of Rural Land. Young Black Farmers Want to Reclaim Their Share.
Mother Jones ^ | June 27, 2020 | Tom Philpott

Posted on 06/29/2020 3:56:01 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: Trump20162020

Bill Gates owns a LOT of farm ground. A least 1,000 acres of his holdings is in Mercer county, IL. Let the reparation crowd get him to give it to the chop farmers.


41 posted on 06/29/2020 4:10:58 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: rigelkentaurus
"Farming is very hard work. Farming is an expensive, low return career. Farming takes a lot of knowledge and education. Farming takes endurance, planning, and patience."

Dig a hole, throw in some seed and water, fill in the hole.

Bingo, you're a farmer.

Don't make this white privilege stuff too complicated.

42 posted on 06/29/2020 4:12:07 PM PDT by caltaxed (ake)
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To: Trump20162020

Welcome to Zimbabwe.


43 posted on 06/29/2020 4:12:39 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: alloysteel

Yes, but additionally, actual innovation occurred over the last century that hardly anyone is working agri now. Only a few people are needed to provide massive amounts of plenty.

That is technology. Some ended up Big Farm, but either way, technology reduced how many people even have to OWN a farm to “sustain” the economy/needs, much less work it.


44 posted on 06/29/2020 4:12:50 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Trump20162020

In 1920, nearly a million Black farmers worked on 41.4 million acres of land, making up a seventh of farm owners.


I suspect most of these folks were sharecroppers.

Just like most white farmers.


45 posted on 06/29/2020 4:13:46 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: BarbM

Great solution. /s

How about they go F themselves instead?...


46 posted on 06/29/2020 4:14:43 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Trump20162020

“Regain”? They left to go to the cities to make more money! Want to come back? Great! Bring cash....


47 posted on 06/29/2020 4:14:43 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Trump20162020

Here we go.


48 posted on 06/29/2020 4:14:51 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: Trump20162020

Just like South Africa and Zimbabwe.


49 posted on 06/29/2020 4:14:58 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Trump20162020
They don't have to farm.

The Pigford Settlement gave a check to any black man that picked up a ho.

50 posted on 06/29/2020 4:15:10 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: unread

The Democratic Party is morphing into our very own ANC right before our eyes.


51 posted on 06/29/2020 4:15:14 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

40 acres and a mule.


52 posted on 06/29/2020 4:15:19 PM PDT by DownInFlames (Galsd)
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To: Gay State Conservative

See what they are completely missing is this isn’t pre war Germany with a less than 1 percent Jewish population.

It’s not Africa where the whites were definitely the minority.

There’s TENS of MILLIONS of us and we got guns.

They would get crushed.

People here think there will be 10s of millions fighting on their side.

I’d be shocked if 5 million from that side wanted a war. Or a real revolution.

Are 10s of millions of dems willing to DIE for their cause? Give up their very good lives?

Like The Godfather asked “Is he tough? I mean really tough?”

Forget about it. Not even close


53 posted on 06/29/2020 4:15:32 PM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of the Republic is at stake. dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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To: Trump20162020

Adjusted for 2020 dollars, the American people gave $27 trillion since 1964 to black people in government programs.

Enuff.


54 posted on 06/29/2020 4:15:38 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Trump20162020

I thought that they got 40 acres and a mule.

My family did not get a dime, they had to work for it and make a living.

Cut off EBT, TANF, and any other government welfare if they feel that way.


55 posted on 06/29/2020 4:16:29 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: BenLurkin

It would be interesting to see if the the Left’s New Society legislation had any effect on the racial makeup of the farming community.


56 posted on 06/29/2020 4:17:11 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: SamAdams76

See land for sale signs off and on during my commute to the job a couple counties away.


57 posted on 06/29/2020 4:17:21 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: Skywise
This is South Africa, or Rhodesia all over. This crap now needs to stop. Whites are being attacked, white women are raped approx a 100 a day by blacks and we have white guilt turds who are too stupid to see what is going on
58 posted on 06/29/2020 4:17:25 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Trump20162020

Like the gang-bangers in the hood would happy to eke out a simple living on a 40 acre farm. They’d be starving and demanding welfare checks within a month. The ones that did actually farm would be growing cash crops like Marijuana, Coca and poppies.


59 posted on 06/29/2020 4:17:43 PM PDT by nhbob1
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To: Trump20162020

Liberia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa have tons of land to farm.
A.M.F.


60 posted on 06/29/2020 4:18:11 PM PDT by EEGator
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