[a fool in paradise]

>>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.

How many remaining farms are corporate farms?

How many families black white brown red or yellow had to sell off their farms to pay for inheritance taxes?

[LastDayz]

“How many families black white brown red or yellow had to sell off their farms to pay for inheritance taxes?”

Exactly.... the small farmer has pretty much been overrun by mega-corps.

[alloysteel]

The exodus of persons of ALL ethnicities has been going on virtually unabated for the past century, not just blacks. Almost always it was for economic reasons, for black as well as the vastly greater number of all other ethnic groups. Trying to wrest a living from the soil, when you have to buy everything retail and sell everything at wholesale, is not a recipe for quick return, and most of the youth look at this lopsided economic equation, finally deciding that life on the farm is not for them.

Nobody was “expelled” from the land. They fled for greener pastures, lured by promise of much greater remuneration for much shorter hours.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

How many left the farms VOLUNTARILY for the better paying industrial and factory jobs in the north?

[piasa]

Funny no mention of inheritance taxes

[WVNan]

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.