[STONEWALLS]

...my neighbor spent 35 years with USDA in Beltsville, MD headqyarters...he felt that the black farmer’s law suits were nothing more than shakedowns...the reason that so many black farmers were turned down for loans is because they were bad farmers with weak credit...the reason that blacks are largely an urban people today; is because they couldn’t make a go of farming in the first place.

[Buckeye McFrog]

the reason that blacks are largely an urban people today; is because they couldn’t make a go of farming in the first place.

Not a fair statement, as I have seen black farmers in the South who worked extremely hard to bring in their crops. (we just don’t see any of them up here in the North. The rural black population of my state is 0.02%))

[crosshairs]

my neighbor spent 35 years with USDA in Beltsville, MD headqyarters...he felt that the black farmer’s law suits were nothing more than shakedowns...the reason that so many black farmers were turned down for loans is because they were bad farmers with weak credit...the reason that blacks are largely an urban people today; is because they couldn’t make a go of farming in the first place.

Farming is hard work. Living off the backs of other people is much easier.