Posted on 06/29/2020 3:56:01 PM PDT by Trump20162020
We drove right by the statue to Mother Jones today. Mrs. L wouldn’t let me stop to piss on it.
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Resilience.org: Tom Philpott is a co-founder of Maverick Farms, a North Carolina–based sustainable farm and food education center. Philpott’s writing on the politics of food has appeared in the Guardian, Newsweek, and other publications. A former columnist and editor at Grist, he now writes the “Food for Thought” blog for Mother Jones...
Articles:
How to be ‘Fast, Fresh, and Green’ in the kitchen [book review]
By Tom Philpott, Grist
Like recycling, listening to NPR, and caring about the World Cup, everyday cooking has become a de rigeur activity for those with certain class and cultural aspirations. And that’s as it should be...
Resilience is a program of Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities.
https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/tom-philpott/
Wikipedia: Grist is an American non-profit online magazine that has been publishing environmental news and commentary since 1999...
Grist is headquartered in Seattle, Washington...
In an article for Time magazine, Eric Roston, who was a Grist contributor, referred to Grist as, “The Colbert Report of climate change, The Daily Show of deforestation, the Oprah of oil dependency — except with real reporting and analytical journalism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grist_(magazine)
This has been our strategy for fifty years.
They can pay for it by reimbursing the cities for all the looted stores and police buildings.
Then, after that is done, they can pay for the land they want at market rates.
It’s more like the strategy is the get 90% of the country so annoyed at them, that they’ll vote Trump out just to get them to “shut the f up!”
OK, people. South Africa 2.0 only works when Blacks are in the majority.
GEEZE I had no idea we had young black farmers, WTH how did I miss this??
“Or did they pack up and move to the cities hoping for a better life?”
DING DING DING!!!
Ladies and gents we have a winner!
The black kids wanted NOTHING to do with farming. They left the farms for jobs in factories making more in five years than their parents made in twenty on the farm.
A lot of white kids did the same but the number of blacks leaving the farm was much higher.
Heck you can’t even get black kids to want to code.
South Africa.
Dairz gold in dat dere haze!
I have never yet met a black person who wants to be a farmer, but if they really want to, and know how, there are legal paths that do not involve taking land from someone who knows what they are doing and owns it legally.
“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...”
Anyone notice an inconsistency in that passage?
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It’s meaningless drivel. A million workers doesn’t tell how many were owners. Nor do they tell how many owners there were.
Were 1 in 7 of the owners black? Or was the 41.4 millions of acres representative of the farms on which they worked? IE 1 in 7 of farm owners had blacks working the farms which totaled 41.4 million acres.
Farmers of all hues have been replaced by Corporate Farms. Using % without telling all the underlying numbers is often used to disguise the true picture.
The small guys persist with farming as a hobby and because they like a rural lifestyle. The mid-size farmers work in town, or their wives do, and earn most of the family income off the farm; they run the farm as a side business and are getting constantly squeezed. The farmers large enough to afford the best technology do pretty well; those guys may talk country to fool you, but they are extremely sharp, and the technology they are using today will take your breath away. Almost all of them are college grads, many with advanced degrees, and here and there Ph.D's in hard sciences. (I know a Ph.D plant geneticist who left the lab to come home and take over the family farm. That was a lifestyle decision. That's not an uncommon story.) They're running multi-million dollar high tech businesses with massive capital costs, so you'd better believe they know finance and marketing as well.
So: how did black small farmers get disproportionately edged out in the consolidation wave? Discriminatory lending by rural southern banks and criminally negligent school systems for the black folks was certainly part of it. Until fairly recently, banking was extremely local and many rural areas had only a single bank serving a small town or rural country. If the banker is Henry F. Potter, 'ya got a problem. Small farmers banding together to gain market power against banks, the big grain elevator and the railroads is a big part of late 19th and early 20th century rural history. Black farmers had these problems in spades.
But black people also had a huge issue with lack of clear title. Black farmers tended to be poorly educated. (A lot of white farmers were educationally shortchanged too, and most of them went under as well. Modern farming is knowledge and capital intensive.) The old black sharecropper might have put together a few acres and added to it over the years. But he probably didn't have a will. He died and his six kids all had a claim. They couldn't all farm the plot, so most of them moved into town and agreed to let Cousin George run the farm with whatever informal financial arrangements the family thought fit. George ran the farm successfully, but when he and his six siblings passed away, with an average of four kids apiece, there were now 24 partial owners.
Guess what? Want to buy more land, buy modern equipment, invest in irrigation, tile the fields, whatever? To collateralize your land, you have to have clear title.
Oops.
Can all the partial owners be talked into signing on the dotted line? Sometimes, but often not, and that meant that the next generation farmer was financially hamstrung. He had a very hard time growing. The attraction of selling out and taking a better paying job in town loomed larger and larger. And sooner or later, some of the relatives, who have now been off the farm for two generations, decide they want their share of the money. The only way to raise it is to sell out and distribute the proceeds.
Strong wills and clear titles are good things. Did a black sharecropper in 1880 understand that? Maybe not. And if he did, was there a white lawyer in town in Ringworm, Alabama, that he could trust? Or afford? Maybe not.
That's why black farmers got squeezed especially hard.
I wrote carelessly. The number of U.S. farms peaked at something around 36 million, not six million, in the mid-1930’s. Consolidation has eliminated over 90 percent of U.S. farming units.
Check out the Pigford scandal - “More importantly, the claim’s process created a rush to get a share of the monies allocated to the judgment fund, even if no real claim existed. Essentially, the process encouraged people to lie and spawned a cottage industry. Claimants had only to file applications for a $50,000 payment by stating that they had “thought about” applying for loans to become a farmer. Proof of a claimant’s intent to farm also included a statement from that petitioner saying he or she had attempted to farm by planting a batch of tomatoes in his or her backyard and having that statement verified by a family member. In essence, the need to be a farmer at the time of the alleged discriminatory actions by the USDA was not a requirement to share in the financial redress. “https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/06/pigford_the_unexamined_obama_administration_scandal.html
South Africa is looking for New Black people, I will gladly buy 10 one way tickets for any blacks that want to go
that’s okay. this is the exact kind of nonsense the farmers out there need to hear leading up to the election.
Bloomberg can teach them.
;-)
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