Why Are All The Black Farmers Vanishing?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2020
- The United States was built on the agricultural strength and skill of Black slaves who knew how to farm. But even after slavery ended, Black people who worked as farmers have continued to face systematic barriers - and still do today.
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Am I the only one thinking that guy looks cool as hell in that hat.
No it does suit him well
Remember some farming convention where people sold bad seeds to black farmers, and good seeds to white farmers? They went to court, so messed up.
Racism rules EVERY FACET of America. Down to the seeds! Absolutely disgraceful!
We want facts not heresay, show us some documentation. I want the names of these companies so as to avoid them if true.
Yep
@@frankwurth5375 look it up reject
yeah and the court case ended without merit,
Why can't people just comment, and stick to the topic? This video is about the history of the oppression of Black Farmers. Acknowledge that.
Yvette Owens-Battle people like to connect the dots
this is a small business being outdone by large businesses wrapped in a colored victim cover.
Fake news
White people are too sensitive
Don't worry about the European. They don't belong here and they know it. Our ancestors afforded a future of extreme global dysfunction for Europe, China and Russia. We're in the karma for allowing a young species run to the world
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TH-cam curbed the shit outta y'all! This needs more views!!!
12.5 million Africans weren't brought over here. Most of us were already here. How else would they know how to farm in America unless they were already here in America? African seasons are different than here.
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Stop it. Native Americans were here.
@@wayne47ablesome blacks were already here too
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Stop it. They brought africans for this
My grandad was a farmer. I lived on his farm for 21 years.
Lived
What happened? Where is the land today?
So what.
@@og-greenmachine8623why so racist?
Because of racism.
Yes "racism" is stopping black people from spending a few hundred thousand dollars from buying farms and embracing a rural life which so few blacks want to do
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Oh, I see the Sargon of Akkad Syndrome is spreading. The condition that makes chuds incapable of following a reading or video longer than a couple sentences, like the part where they mentioned how blacks are systematically denied the loans that they'd need for those investments of 'a few hundred thousand dollars'.
Then again, when your side is the side of 'a small loan of one million dollars', it's normal to have a warped view of the world. When daddy pays for everything.
@Will Williams farmwork is racist, it never does what black farmers want!
@@sacta ion know why u responded ignorant people ignore facts and stand on what they believe, black people gave up on trying have their own as a group because of racist motherfuckers
No it's more complicated than that.
Sad story but an excellent documentary. We need more reporting like this to bring the injustice and awareness of racial bias to the forefront.
good video, more people need to take up farming, it's a noble profession and roots you in the culture.
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It would be best for some of us struggling in the rat race everyday
I live in a farming area. I've never seen a black farmer. In fact its extremely rare to see african Americans even living in a rural area.
I don't live in America. Yet, I am aware that their has always been African farmers. I am happy that you are-awake. Your awareness, counts.
I AM A BLACK FARMER
If you find it rare to see African Americans in rural areas you probably live in the north
@@sethwilson970 yes
Most Blacks actually want to Live in Major cites vs in rural areas where there aint nothing to do
Reparations are so important and necessary!!
To the Native American population as well!
@Will224000 Reparation for Babylon !
Native Americans have reserved land
@@johnd8243 All of the land of United States was stolen from Native American countries. And the genocide that accompanied it.
@The Raddest Scorpion
Native Americans are Black.
@@johnd8243 That's
a) pretty racist
b) erasing their identity
c) absolutely not true
Man with the industry changing grow now. Hemp. CBD. Medical Cannabis.
As a black farmer I see that our people have been stripped of land. It time for us to claim back momma earth.
Maith an fear. Keep farming
@Buck Rogers Its happened gradually over time long before the civil Rights era. Since colonization of N.America, the 1500s-1600, since1866, after the civil war and a good deal after the 1920's. Between broken treaties, redlining, taxes, land re-distribution all the way to crack and WS- it's left most native indigenous "blacks" W/O land/resources and in debt.
@Buck Rogers The question is - how will WE do this? Mother nature never actually left us. When we connect back to the soil, we will be back where we can flourish and truly prosper- as we did in the early ages. We have to claim it.
When you look at the story of what is happening in Colorado with African American ranchers being terrorized on their farm, I think we know a big factor why so many of my people lost their land in general.
Its still happening look up black farmer Colorado being persecuted.... its on TH-cam... look at the families story.
I started growing my own tomatoes to save money on groceries
You won the right way! You used the legal system! You should have become an attorney and helped the blacks more!
Come to South Africa man. You will help get these corrupt politicians to vomit the money stolen. And put them behind bars.
Grew up on a farm, but I turned to trucking an I made my way, but I would love to go to farming, if I had a way, I would go back.
How did you like trucking ? Do you have a family?
We been here in America. We are NOT Africans
Bloody shame for America. This should NEVER be happening. These are the real noble and honorable people just like any other farmer, and it's always heart-warming to see the real African-American farmers. WHY YOU DON'T APPRECIATE PEOPLE LIKE THESE??? We need more people like this, America needs black farmers lot more than you think. Farming will solve 90% of black community's problems and it will solve 90% OF AMERICA'S PROBLEMS (which is basically the big difference between the lives of African-Americans and others including richest White Americans or even immigrants/ middle class). Get it? As simple as that, but some jerks don't want it. That's the reason black people live in poverty in cities and it creates countless other problems, why you don't let them get away from that? Government should be trying to bring or promote more African-American farmers, it's not only a good deed it's essential for every state and community to have that backbone of farming. This is not a leftist or liberal agenda, this is what really has to be done to fix the PROBLEM the degenerates MANUALLY created in the past decades. I wish African-American farmers to get stronger and not be dependent on anyone or anything, to let us enjoy seeing more and more of that beauty of your great contribution to American culture of farming.✌️☀️
Because our land was stolen.....
Yas! I wish I could have more options. I wish I had more people like me to care for me. Like doctors, chiropractors, and natural medicine
Hi, I have learn't on my own to take care of myself as much as I can, without relying on medical and having to pay for someone-else. It saves from worrying and spending money. If I can you can. You are a bright cookie. Wish you good health and care.
*I wish I had more people like me to care for me*
That sounds like you want to segregate yourself.
Fermiticus Not really. Just in the medical field alone, a high percentage of doctors & nurses still believe that black ppl don’t feel pain the way others do, bc our skin is thicker. If your doctor doesn’t believe your symptoms, you’re not going to get the care & treatment you need & deserve. If certain ppl refuse to apply logic & humanity to their medical practice, then it’s reasonable to desire & seek out doctors who know that black ppl are not lying about their pain. It’s not segregation, it’s representation.
@@fermiticus4034 these people are crossing the Rubicon lol
I want to be a farmer and I am black and only 17 and I want to go to college at North Carolina a&t state university the largest hbcu in the nation and learn agriculture engineering thank I want to own 100+ acres and do a mix of homesteading and farming hope I get to do this when I grow up and help African American people get into farming again and right know to get started I'm in carpentry class in vocation school
I’m a black carpenter and a farmer here in Oklahoma. My best advice to you stay focused and no matter what adversity they throw toward you stay focused. In the building world they are gonna down you but, young man own your trade and perfect it. Trust me you will go far. I’ve been doing it 12 years and am just starting my own business. Keep God first and pay attention to his plan and words of wisdom. ✌🏾
May the lord bless you and your dreams come true 🙏🏼
Keep speaking and believing and praying and it will come true🙌🏼💕
Well scan
Irishman here. Keep livestock and all. Also turn hay and work in a bog. And I'd say definitely go for it. Become a farmer. Work the land and tend the livestock.
I wish you great success
And also if anyone says anything bad about the fact you're black and a farmer, just reply "at least my job feeds the people and I am the reason you have food on your table because your to lazy to farm yourself" that'll shut them up
Dia linn
Thank you for this educational video! This is a serious systematic issue that affects not only blacks but also indigenous people. Let's fight for equality!
“Black” people are indigenous that’s to say the least of why they lost there lands but nature is restoring the balance on the planet..
@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles Where you proof for such false claims?? 1828 Webster dictionary tells different, save the bs for someone else
Black people chose W.E.B Dubois’s political rights and talented tenth philosophy over Booker T Washington’s economics philosophy. During those time we owned our own banks, we gave it all up for civil rights
It’s crazy because other cultures have civil rights and they start businesses.. we have civil rights and dangerous neighborhoods.. it’s all a shame..
Before it's all over, they will lose far more than they ever stole from you all. 💜🙏🏾💜
Is that a threat?
@@puffn9022 no, it’s Karma.
I assume that John Boyd, Jr. is the "Martin Luther King, Jr." of agriculture who is the key of pushing the Pigford vs. Glickman to further the rights of compensation for black farmers.
Don't do industrial farming. It is too costly and too risky. And it is bad for the ecosystem. Do labor intensive permaculture and natural farming. At least you will become self-sufficient.
Interesting video. So many of the comments here take away from this story.
🎉 No Farmer No Food 🎉🎉 from India 🎉 great emotional feelings 🎉❤ job 🎉❤
Being a Farmer dose not have clauses there is no Race on the Farm, No Gender on the Farm, no Sexuality on the farm all there should be is hard work and teamwork
Good bless farmers .
Very interesting and informative video report. Very sad to see how Black farmers have been and still continue get treated even til the present day.
Racism. Pure and simple.
1st thought to whoever reads the video title.
@Progressive Corporatist Republican they don't have the balls, simple
I'm putting everyone in a group here... These kids nowadays don't want to do backbreaking labor like that
Even though we still have a lot to do I'm still thankful my generation is getting it back together.
The Ws (U.S Government) discriminate from all sectors when it comes to us.
My country....my damned country....things have GOT to change...
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🌬 “Never put anything smaller than your elbow inside your ear, and you have zero business digging around in a dogs ear.”
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❤❤❤Maybe the reason why the Black Farmers filed late because they couldn't read or write, between slavery and Jim Crow Blacks were forbidden any form of education, so of course they were unable to read contracts, applications, and deadlines. The government knew this and used it for not paying them what they're owed. Life span is because of unnecessary stress from racism, struggles, and lack of access to adequate health care, that stems from years of oppression. Blacks always had connection to the land before slavery/Africa to present day. ❤❤❤❤❤
😂😂 why I thought that was Morgan freeman in the thumbnail?🤦🏾♀️
IDK. Why did you think that? LOL. Thank you for watching.
Imaeyen Ibanga 😂🤦🏾♀️ I have no clue why...I thought it was Morgan Freeman and said “what new movie coming out”🤣
I thought the same thing. I looked at the thumbnail before reading the video title and thought "Oh, an interview with Morgan Freeman".
Still happening in 2020 with housing with black in America
Dont know what you are talking about. I have a decent apartment that work hard to live in, and I'm part black.
@Channel word🤙
The topic of Agriculture is what proves we are the TRUE American Indians & this is our land. We planted Corn, Cotton, Tobacco, ect on plantations because it's something we'd been doing forever. An African that has never seen tobacco or Corn is not going to know how to grow these crops because these same crops wer'nt growing in Africa.
A million black farmers in 1910 to 49,000 in 2023. Crazy! If this isn’t systemic racism then I don’t know what is.
As many black brothers and sisters that care for the Earth and humanity's sustainability, we cannot forget the extraordinaire George Washington Carver as top agricultural scientist, botanist, and inventor and his legacy.
A new breed shall reclaim the lands that were denied to their ancestors!
Yet the people will continue to vote for their own chains to be placed upon them.
I remember learning about this in Middle School in a History class and I never forgotten it. Really sad how indigenous farmers are treated. I’m happy to see some of them were somewhat compensated. The inspiring part of this story is that the indigenous youth is coming in and learning these skills so it’s not ending with the older farmers.
You must not have gone to school in Florida. 🤨
Indigenous means native.. blacks are not native, they’re foreign to america.
The Key to this Problem is pooling together 10 farmers 1 farm means big profits..simple #togetherness.. #wakeupblackpeople
@b1 we've dealt with that problem long enough segregation was a biggest weapon and then we integrated it's time to reverse that process and Practice Group economics everybody get together protect each other make money with each other love each other stop worrying about the other races they seem to have their s*** together
Naw black folks to connected to the City life....
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Respect for ya'll folks... tbh...
Black farmers are needed in Africa were the government can give them land and support we need to talk about that
I was watching this with an open mind until I heard the twit woman speak. The Africans enslaved were not rounded up because they were agricultural experts. Quite the contrary. Farming practices across the continent were crude and primitive and were often of the extraordinarily destructive "slash and burn" type. They were rounded up as a source of manual labor. So this woman has an agenda and is also just plain delusional. Which is sad because I do feel that black farmers historically have gotten the shaft in the US. It more or less boils down to financial institutions screwing them over by offering smaller loans at worse terms and then kicking them off of their land with bogus claims.
The pandemic that has killed so many surely did not help matters at all.
Im 17 and Africa American my family have land but they going to sell theirs but with my grandmom approval im start farming on her land
I'm so mad right now! It should surprise NOBODY that we weren't taught a thing about this! Damn. I'm sorry.
We are American Indians yes we had farms yes we were farmers
Sholom
Sholom
Yes did force the two breeds to mix.
@@Strucktheworld Israel?
Man we are not America Indians or Israelites. We need to be proud of are Africa roots.
It's all about race
Black people been farming and I knew black farmers and farm owners more than 20 yrs ago this is horrible. they must have a person out to get them specifically.
Im a Black Northern California Nut Farmer.. We are not getting the loans that We should get, but with help from other Farmers, We get by
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🌬👋People are not the same as “Electronic Toys.”
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The amount of people who know nothing about agriculture or the ag industry is shocking, farmers have been disapering for decades, market trends has made it so family farms are not needed, in fact very few farmers even exist
Blacks in America have faced prejudice and injustice since the beginning. Black farmers in the past had land stolen, paid more in taxes on the land, paid less for crops. Black farmers were not given loans to improve farm. I know quite a blacks that own land but don't farm. They stopped years ago, no money in it for independent farmers
American government only wants industrial farming.
Where are they from?
Hey listen. Racism is all over. As long as there are ppl of different colour, where some are pink and some are like the black clay God created Adam from.
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Martin Luther King dream failed.
No it did not...it worked. Open your eyes WIDE.
It's about discrimination 101 against black
“They escaped”- 👴🏻
“We free”- 👴🏿
bless
You steal our land we steal your generators 😐
Still fighting till this day.
So are any of those young farmers trying to buy farms in Texas?
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🌬 “All🇬🇧The King’s Horses, and All🇬🇧The King’s “Men” got turned into “Real SISSIESZz for Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone.”
🌬 “ALL🇬🇧The Queen’SZz Horses and ALL🇬🇧The Queen’s “Men” fell down. Then, “they” couldn’t ever get back up again.”
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So true .
Bless you
Only in America where you can seek justice and sue the government then win
I am not saying that there is no historical issues here but there are less and less farmers all the time. Big agribusiness has taken over
Fantastic people there, stick to the land. 👍
Thats where it all took place! They not gnna let it slide!
Its not black farmers, it's small farmers. Our 100 acres was not enough. Only the large farm are surviving.
I spoke with a African black man, about 27 28 somewhere in there. We talked about coming to america , and what that was like. He mentioned the 150 yr set back due to slavery in america , we need to move forward recognize the problem and change. Farmers in america have declined acrossed the board.Thank you for the video.
thanks to technology
@B 1 He can see.
@B 1 He lives it now just like any other black male. He believes its worse here than in Africa.
@B 1 america is worse by far very racist , I told him it is only because he isn't white. It was a joke and he found it funny.
@Progressive Corporatist Republican As we all are free to leave.
Let's see what Biden and Harris Will do to help i think they should appoint my bro to head the Dept of agriculture
Hammer Biden and Sickle Harris will TAKE from Peter to give to Dequan...then TAKE more from Peter to bail out Dequan when he fails. All along, they will blame Peter.
That's the reality of it, unfortunately.
I do sincerely hope that blacks (same as everybody) will get a fair shake, and be able to have great success.
THIS IS A CRYING SHAME!!! STILL BLATANT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE TODAY IN OUR "GREAT" NATION!!! PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND PROTEST THIS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACK FARMERS!!! SHARE!!!
John Boyd might be my cousin
Let’s hope they don’t bring back the Chinese to build back the rail roads.
Hold in there
South Africans would love them lol
So we didn't already no this?
The more you K-N-O-W, the smarter you'll be!
It seems like in the black community the problem always comes back to the government not giving out loans, it may be best we stop asking for loans and just pool out money together
@@equalitynation then maybe we should leave, it seems like a cycle of mistreatment. Instead of complaining about it we should do something about it
Black people are gonna have to study permaculture and sell their own produce individually, buy land gradually and then teach those who wish to be taught cause this ain't gonna get any better.
America's true colour
I think as a black farmer Africa is the best place for you to farm if you’re blackj as you are contributing to their economies and you won’t have to deal with race issues
Naw that's ok. Africans don't want you there. I've been there. I know. We good farming right here in America.
@@soldierup5482 says who?
Saddening
Hmm. So saddening.
wrong question
God. will. Judge
What’s wrong with everybody?? We’re all humans, we all bleed red, a farmer is a farmer…do the right thing and do what farmers do!!! Live the farming culture, believe in god, wrk hard and help each other out…be there for each other!!!! 👍🏻 ✌🏼 🙏🏼 🚜
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The YT ones who stole blacks land and had it in the family for 6 generations are now crying and long in the face because its too expensive to keep it and they have MILES of land ,HUGE ranches that go all the way into the damn mountains and they still cant make ends meet.Wishing things were the way they were over 100 years ago.What goes around comes around.
Black farmers should import knowledgeable black farm help from Barbados to boost production of quality crops selling to black cooperatives to black and West Indian food markets on plates and in the bellies of thousands of children across America. White farmers did it with Caribbean people and Mexican But you can do it with young people who need help getting their life back on track.
Barbados need to concern itself with it's business. We got this. You got your own problems.
Short : history
More accurate: racism.
To seek better employment?