• Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    So no asian farms, no spanish farms, no middle eastern farms?

    Why just black farms? Doesn’t this lend itself to the trope of black people being farmhands?

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 hours ago

      Black farmers in the US have a particular history, what with chattel slavery and independent black farmers in particular being targeted for hostile takeovers and anti-competitive behavior from racists running big AG conglomerates in ways that other ethnic and cultural groups in the US have not faced.