The Justice for Black Farmers Act, Booker, Warren, Gillibrand (Page 4/4)
rinselberg MAY 28, 05:22 PM

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Originally posted by sourmash:
I don't suppose your.desures have any worth to anyone else, since the rest of us have our wishes.


The "rest of us" is a small group indeed, if the metric is the level or enumeration of active messaging in threads that are (or should be) checkboxed as "Politics."
randye MAY 28, 08:43 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

The "rest of us" is a small group indeed, if the metric is the level or enumeration of active messaging in threads that are (or should be) checkboxed as "Politics."



Which of course still makes the group of you laughably miniscule by that, or any, metric.

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sourmash MAY 28, 09:51 PM
We've decided.
maryjane MAY 29, 11:37 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:
I thought, more than anything else, that it might be something that maryjane would like to look at. If not the article itself, the very small part of it that I duplicated here.

Seeing that he is the one that created this forum topic.




I haven't had time to be on line very much lately, having been involved again with county political/agriculture affairs.
The reasons for fewer black farmers in the South is not as clear cut as some would like it to appear.
There were several factors involved in the Mississippi delta exodus of individual farmers (what is today sometimes called small family farm owners).
Agriculture on small farms has always been a small profit margin endeavor, and for the most part, continues today. In post civil war times thru the 1950s, it was even worse. Mostly, subsistence farming no matter what color your skin happened to be. Grow what you eat, sell just enough to make a land payment and/or buy clothing and other non-farm goods. There was just no economic upward mobility in that lifestyle.

Post civil war movement to the North where jobs were still more abundant. Freed men in the deep south didn't have the $$ to buy southern land so they worked for others, or they moved.
Industrialization in the bigger cities (especially in the rust belt) was more attractive than eeking out a living in the post civil war South. By the late 1800s/early 1900s, the Great Migration had begun.
Labor shortages in Northern factories during WW1.
And only a few years later, the approximate 25,000 square mile Mississippi River flood of 1929 was a death knell for many, especially small farm owners in the delta of Miss, La and Arkansas. 100s of thousands of small independent farmers just packed it in, abandoned their farms and moved North.
2.5 JUN 01, 12:01 PM

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Originally posted by maryjane:

There were several factors involved in the Mississippi delta exodus of individual farmers (what is today sometimes called small family farm owners).
Agriculture on small farms has always been a small profit margin endeavor, and for the most part, continues today. In post civil war times thru the 1950s, it was even worse. Mostly, subsistence farming no matter what color your skin happened to be. Grow what you eat, sell just enough to make a land payment and/or buy clothing and other non-farm goods. There was just no economic upward mobility in that lifestyle.

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In Wisconsin my Dad farmed the farm he was born on, a holstien dairy, it was small. The milk was sold. He worked hard all day, as in really all-day, and wasnt inefficient, we kids and even mom helped. The day he went to driving over the road trucks instead is the day he started turning a decent profit, also the day he started building a retirement of any kind, and also the day he got decent health insurance. He'd probly still be struggling at it, but none of us kids saw a future in it, and when we graduated high school started moving out his future help did too.

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2.5 JUN 01, 12:33 PM

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Originally posted by Wichita:

What determines you to be "black"?

Are they going to bring back "one-drop rule"?



"socially disadvantaged"

Apparently it won't just be based on skin color....but any segregated identifed group they decide fits their playbook?

Instituted structured prejudice enforced by law.

I wonder how much they will use the data created by all those people who love to do family lineage history gathering...
2.5 JUN 01, 12:36 PM

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Originally posted by randye:


It seems as though these Demorat Dimwits are in a weird contest to see who can propose the most unconstitutional idea possible.




When and how are they going to get called on it i wonder?

Currently they seem to have concinced "private" businesses to do this dirty work for them, with their diversity and equity racist programs. Which also go against the rules of descriminating based on race.