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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: sphinx

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.


161 posted on 06/29/2020 6:25:35 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Skywise

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!


162 posted on 06/29/2020 6:26:07 PM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: snarkytart

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.


163 posted on 06/29/2020 6:26:16 PM PDT by SteelPSUGOP
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To: RightGeek

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.


164 posted on 06/29/2020 6:29:33 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Trump20162020

The sold and moved into steelworking, etc....like many whites did.


165 posted on 06/29/2020 6:30:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Funny no mention of inheritance taxes


166 posted on 06/29/2020 6:31:43 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Trump20162020

From a really stupid mother!!!!


167 posted on 06/29/2020 6:40:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
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To: Trump20162020

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.


168 posted on 06/29/2020 6:41:33 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Trump20162020

Socialist rag has to invent week’s faux Crisis.


169 posted on 06/29/2020 6:43:56 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: dfwgator

OMG LOL, LOL, hope they won’t need to eat anytime soon!!!


170 posted on 06/29/2020 6:43:56 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Gay State Conservative

That’s close to what I wanted to say!!!!


171 posted on 06/29/2020 6:46:58 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Trump20162020

Just like zimbabwe.


172 posted on 06/29/2020 6:48:03 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: greeneyes

White is the new Ni_BONG.


173 posted on 06/29/2020 6:52:04 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf
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To: Skywise
"They really want a civil war don’t they?"

The commies and their global oligarchs want conservatives to simply submit, give up on political campaigning and give up their properties. If real violence started, the commies would run and try to hide.

174 posted on 06/29/2020 7:07:59 PM PDT by familyop ( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
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To: Cloverfarm

*** 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.


175 posted on 06/29/2020 7:11:05 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: familyop

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.


176 posted on 06/29/2020 7:11:32 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA! Derps vs. Patriots, choose your side.)
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To: Trump20162020

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.


177 posted on 06/29/2020 7:16:27 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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To: BarbM
The south did give them the land one time.
It was called Forty acres and a mule.
178 posted on 06/29/2020 7:18:03 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: BarbM
My grandfather had to hire help. He was from the North, where owning people is abhorrent.

That's BS. There were plenty of slaves in the North. Not just on farms, but in the textile industry and in the home.

179 posted on 06/29/2020 7:20:05 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: a fool in paradise

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.


180 posted on 06/29/2020 7:36:17 PM PDT by WVNan
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