BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Economic Corner 14 - 02/15/2025 DTSTAMP:20250215T211820Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:195-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n Economic Corner 14 - the black farmer of the usa\n\n\n\n MY THOUGHTS\n\n In 1920 \, white records have 925\,708 Black Farmers\, thi s doesn't include Black people still share cropping or farming through pri son labor. Remember Alice [ https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurr ay/?status=1830&\;type=status \; https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-ri chardmurray/?status=1925&\;type=status ] How many Black people were ac tually farming in 1920 that did not own their own land\, but were entrappe d in legal while criminal situations?\n\n By 2017 the recorded number of B lack Farmers in the USA is 48\,697. That is 5.260514114602013%\n\n Ten per cent of 925\,708 is 92\,570.8 so it is clear the numbers are not false. As the brother in the video said\, when the war between the states ended the biggest problem is black people in the usa had no where to go[no lands wh ites havent been to]\, no revenue or products to get there[no wealthy blac ks that could invest in some long journey like white jews later]\, and had no government willing to ship them[ala the English government that shippe d tons of undesirables to the place they called the new world]\n\n So\, Bl ack people in the usa at the end of the war between the states had to live side their slavers... former slavers\, now just abusers. It is illegal to enslave\, but it isn't illegal to hinder or harm or stall or restrict as long as no shackles are involved or no evidence of physical harm can be fo und or will be found by the legal authorities who just happen to be nonbla ck. \n\n But\,the Black Farmers need two things primarily. They need more but I will speak to immediacy. 1) they need financial support 2)They need a venue they have access to alone. \n\n\n\n The numbers are clear\, whit e power\, white violence\, attacked the black farming industry\, from the end of the war between the states to today and the local/county/state gove rnments of the south where DOS farms are\, were and are completely complic it in the attacks\, whether legal or not. \n\n\n\n I could had argued Bla ck Farmers need protection but here is the problem for the Black Farmer\, specifically the Black DOS farmer. The federal government is the only aspe ct of government in the usa that is willing to help and that is only becau se of federal rules\, the states/county/local governments are all against them. And you can't move a farm. \n\n\n\n so even though I say money+an e xcusive market is needed\, neither will keep Black Farms from being attack ed. \n\n\n\n Going aside other Economic Corners\, Black Farmers could be given exclusive rights to producing the foods for the eateries in a black owned sports league or set of teams. but first the teams will have to be o wned and they will have to be privately owned. I am 100% certain a publicl y traded firm or a firm that earns government funds will be sued if it use s food exclusively from Black Farmers\, simply because the history of whit e farmers is to lawsuit any gain by black farmers. \n\n\n\n I saw the vid eo below and a black farmer said he needed $20\,000... where are the black one percent ? $20\,000 is not some mountain of money for 2025 Black One P ercent. Beyonce/Lebron/Oprah earn far more than $20\,000 a day right? \n\ n So\, the Black Farmers have been crying out for help since 1865\, where are the Black One Percent to help them? \n\n VIDEO\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n ARTICLE\n\n Black farmers fight to keep their land\, cultivate next genera tion\n\n “It’s about fairness\,” John Boyd Jr.\, a farmer and fierce advocate\, said.\n\n ByMonica DelaRosa\, Alison Lynn\, and Anthony Rivas\ n\n June 18\, 2021\, 10:47 AM\n\n John Boyd Jr.\, a fourth-generation farm er\, grew up close to his 1\,000-acre farm in southern Virginia where he n ow grows soybeans\, wheat and livestock.\n\n Boyd\, of Baskerville\, Virgi nia\, is also the founder of the non-profit National Black Farmers Associa tion\, which educates and advocates for Black farmers’ civil rights\, la nd retention and access to public and private loans\, among other initiati ves.\n\n Boyd and his father farmed together for 30 years and his grandpar ents were sharecroppers after the abolition of slavery in 1865.\n\n “I k now there were slaves and sharecroppers that helped build these barns here \,” Boyd told ABC News. “You can see the logs were hand-carved by wood en axes. … Just looking at that reminds me of history\, where I came fro m and where we have to go in this country.”\n\n As part of his efforts w ith the NBFA\, Boyd has worked to attract more Black people who are intere sted in farming\, as well as to protect their rights and their land\, even riding a mule-drawn wagon and driving a tractor to Washington\, D.C.\, to lobby Congress.\n\n “The most powerful tool you can possess\, only seco ndary to Jesus Christ\, is land ownership\,” he said.\n\n To be a farmer in the U.S. is to be part of an aging but crucial industry. Black farmers \, especially\, have seen their numbers plummet from nearly 1 million at t he turn of the 20th century to only about 50\,000 today\, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. While the reasons are complex\, they ulti mately come down to economics\, migration -- mainly to northern urban area s -- and discrimination and racism\, according to the Duke Sanford World F ood Policy Center.\n\n In 2017\, Black farmers were older than the overall population of U.S. farmers\, according to the 2017 agricultural census\, which said that their farms were smaller and the value of their agricultur al sales were less than 1% of the U.S. total. Due to more complete data co llection\, the census found that the number of Black producers was 5% high er than in 2012\, but the number of Black-operated farms dropped by 3%. In all\, 57% of Black-operated farms had sales and government payments of le ss than $5\,000 per year\, according to the census\, while 7% percent had sales and payments of $50\,000 or more when compared with 25% of all farms .\n\n A rich history of farming\n\n Black people have a rich history in fa rming predating slavery. Leah Penniman\, co-director of Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg\, New York\, said that the Mende and Wolof people of West Afric a were expert rice farmers kidnapped from their homes and taken to the Car olinas.\n\n “Our ancestral grandmothers had the courageous audacity to b raid seeds into their hair\,” Penniman told ABC News\, adding that they were transported in slave ships with okra\, cowpea\, egusi melon\, sorghum \, millet and eggplant seeds.\n\n Hundreds of years later\, when enslaved people were given freedom\, they were also promised no more than 40 acres of Confederate land along the Atlantic coast\, a plan from the federal gov ernment that came to be known widely by the phrase “40 acres and a mul e.”\n\n The government’s promise was broken soon after President Abrah am Lincoln was assassinated\, when his successor\, Andrew Johnson\, overtu rned the order and the land was given back to its original owners.\n\n “ If ‘40 acres and a mule’ had been a promise kept\, that [land] would b e worth almost $7 trillion today\,” Penniman said.\n\n Many of the forme r slaves became sharecroppers\, often renting land from their former owner s.\n\n “It didn’t just stop when we were freed\,” said Boyd. “Wher e were we free to go? We didn’t have any money. We didn’t have any res ources. So\, many Blacks stayed on these farms like my forefathers. … Th at’s how Blacks got land in the first place.”\n\n Boyd said the challe nge for Black farmers has been holding onto the land and believes the fede ral government has failed to adequately support farmers of color.\n\n “T he last plantation\,” as he calls the USDA\, is “the very agency tha t’s supposed to be lending me a hand up\, [and it is] the very agency pu tting Black farmers out of business.”\n\n Boyd said that even up until t he 1980s\, he would see the word “negro” on USDA applications and that at his area’s USDA office\, the only day they would see Black farmers w as on Wednesdays.\n\n “We named it Black Wednesday\,” he said.\n\n The USDA said in a statement to ABC News that it did include the word \"negro \" on the application Boyd referenced until at least 1988 and that it used the terms \"Black\" or \"African American\" since then. It also said the \"scenario\" Boyd recalled with regard to Wednesdays \"is a reprehensible one\, but we have no information to support the claim.\"\n\n \"It is clear that for much of the history of the USDA\, Black\, Hispanic\, Native Amer ican\, Asian American and other minority farmers have faced discrimination -- sometimes overt and sometimes through deeply embedded rules and polici es -- that have prevented them from achieving as much as their counterpart s who do not face these documented acts of discrimination\,\" the USDA sai d in its statement. \"We are committed to building a different USDA\, one that is committed to equality and justice\, celebrates diversity and is in clusive of all customers.\"\n\n Boyd said that since 1995\, “a half-tril lion dollars -- with a ‘T’ -- have been paid out to large-scale farmer s in this country in the form of just subsidies” by the USDA.\n\n \"That doesn’t include farm ownership loans\, farm equipment loans\, any of th ose things\, and little to none has went to Black farmers\,\" he said.\n\n In 1999\, the USDA settled the class action lawsuit Pigford v. Glickman\, and eventually paid more than $1 billion to Black farmers\, who claimed t hey were unfairly denied loans and other government assistance.\n\n “I t’s about fairness\,” Boyd said. “It’s about dignity and respect .”\n\n For Black farmers\, the tide is showing signs of turning. In Marc h\, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act\, a nearly $2 trillion law that directed $5 billion to farmers of color. Georgia Sen. Ra phael Warnock\, a Democrat\, co-sponsored the bill\, which is meant to pro vide additional relief to Americans impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n “The COVID-19 pandemic both illuminated and exacerbated long-standing h ealth disparities and economic disparities\,” Warnock told ABC News.\n\n Lestor Bonner\, a Vietnam War veteran and fifth-generation farm owner\, s aid that in 1893\, his great-grandfather bought the farm that he now works on. He said there’s only 136 acres left and that he needs $20\,000 to s ave it from foreclosure. The relief money\, he said\, could help jumpstart his business after a difficult year living through the COVID-19 pandemic. \n\n Bonner said he thought he would have the money by now “so I could g et a crop in the ground this year\,” he told ABC News.\n\n As part of th e American Rescue Plan Act\, the USDA had set up a loan forgiveness progra m that would have helped Bonner pay off his outstanding loans\, as well as pay for supplies and equipment to help him continue farming. But this mon th\, a federal judge in Wisconsin ordered the government agency to stop fo rgiving loans\, saying the program unconstitutionally uses race as a facto r in determining who is eligible.\n\n Penniman says her organization’s m ission is to help Black farmers hold onto their land\, as well as to intro duce young Black potential farmers to the occupation (the average age of B lack farmers is over 60).\n\n “We have between one and 2\,000 folks who come through for these courses every single year at the farm to learn ever ything from taking care of the soil to planting a seed\,” she said.\n\n Penniman said that many important agricultural techniques\, including many of the practices in organic farming\, like raised beds\, composting and c over-cropping “come out of an Afro-indigenous tradition.”\n\n Boyd\, f or his part\, said he’s “proud and excited to see young people” taki ng an interest in land ownership and farming.\n\n “There’s a new gener ation of Black farmers. I love that win\,” he said. “So\, I welcome th em to the fight and welcome them as farmers and stewards of the land and c ontributors to agriculture and the fruit base in this country. That’s wh at my fight is all about.”\n\n https://abcnews.go.com/US/black-farmers-f ight-land-cultivate-generation/story?id=78338282\n\n IN AMENDMENT\n\n http s://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWpUNrv6_P0\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n TRANSCRIPT \n\n\n\n 0:00\n\nthe systematic exclusion of the black\n\n0:02\n\nfarmer h as been an ongoing fight since\n\n0:04\n\nthe days of lincoln\n\n0:05\n\na nd no one knows that fight better than\n\n0:08\n\nthe one man who's been i n the trenches\n\n0:09\n\nfor the last 30 years fighting the\n\n0:12\n\nun ited states government for the rights\n\n0:14\n\nof black farmers look at these yes you\n\n0:17\n\nguys do a big crop this is an ocean this\n\n0:20\ n\nis a beautiful crop i don't think i've\n\n0:21\n\nhad a crop like this probably in 20\n\n0:23\n\nyears\n\n0:24\n\nmeet john boyd jr a fourth gene ration\n\n0:27\n\nfarmer and founder of the national black\n\n0:30\n\nfarm ers association\n\n0:31\n\nhis 1993 lawsuit against the united\n\n0:34\n\n states department of agriculture led to\n\n0:36\n\ntheir first ever settle ment with an\n\n0:38\n\nindividual\n\n0:39\n\nand the subsequent class-act ion lawsuit\n\n0:41\n\nresulted in the largest ever settlement\n\n0:43\n\n from the federal government\n\n0:45\n\nbut only a fraction of those repres ented\n\n0:47\n\nfarmers have been paid out so i'm here\n\n0:50\n\non his soybean farm in boyton virginia\n\n0:52\n\nto hear how the fight's going\n \n0:55\n\nthey look brown well these are beautiful\n\n0:57\n\ni'm gonna ge t you to open one too okay\n\n0:58\n\nhere i come what's your method you b reak\n\n1:00\n\nit right down the middle you hold it\n\n1:01\n\nlike that okay\n\n1:03\n\nand you press it right down the middle\n\n1:05\n\nit's lik e a little pee you can actually\n\n1:07\n\nchew them\n\n1:08\n\noh\n\n1:09 \n\nyou see our taste it's sort of nutty too\n\n1:11\n\nand it really is d ense it's like almost\n\n1:13\n\nit's like it it like sticks in your\n\n1: 14\n\nteeth in a good way\n\n1:16\n\nlike fudge almost it's meaty\n\n1:19\ n\nit is it's meaty and it's soy burgers\n\n1:22\n\nyeah yeah mixed soybea ns up in\n\n1:24\n\neverything\n\n1:25\n\nif we're going to talk about soy beans\n\n1:27\n\ngotta talk about george washington\n\n1:29\n\ncarfur beca use in the 19th century after\n\n1:31\n\nyears of cotton and tobacco crop\ n\n1:33\n\ncultivation the soil was completely\n\n1:35\n\ndepleted so the hyper-intelligent george\n\n1:38\n\nwashington carver taught farmers about \n\n1:40\n\nthe importance of crop rotation and\n\n1:42\n\nshowed them tha t planting peanut crops\n\n1:44\n\nwill help replenish much needed nitroge n\n\n1:47\n\nin the soil\n\n1:48\n\nbut then the southern farms were left\ n\n1:50\n\nwith a surplus of peanuts so george\n\n1:53\n\nwashington carve r had to come to the\n\n1:54\n\nrescue once again\n\n1:56\n\ndr carver wen t into his lab and didn't\n\n1:58\n\ncome out until he published a paper\n \n2:00\n\nentitled how to grow the peanut and 105\n\n2:03\n\nways of prepa ring it for human\n\n2:04\n\nconsumption\n\n2:06\n\nthe peanut was the new cash crop and\n\n2:08\n\nboth he and the little legume were\n\n2:10\n\ncr edited as having saved the southern\n\n2:11\n\nfarm economy\n\n2:13\n\nbot h white and black farms alike\n\n2:17\n\nso if black farmers like george\n \n2:18\n\nwashington carver were innovative\n\n2:20\n\npreservationists wh y don't we see more\n\n2:22\n\nblack farmers in america today\n\n2:25\n\nt he decline in the black farmer\n\n2:28\n\nhad a few facets to it one was t he great\n\n2:31\n\nmigration and then you had horrific laws\n\n2:34\n\nof jim crow\n\n2:35\n\nwhere blacks weren't able to uh\n\n2:38\n\nobtain cre dit oh\n\n2:40\n\nyeah uh under the dakar administration\n\n2:43\n\nthey c ame up with the farmer's home\n\n2:44\n\nadministration that was supposed to help\n\n2:46\n\nblacks get loans and it did it did the\n\n2:49\n\noppos ite we're getting farm ownership\n\n2:51\n\nloans you work in farm operati ng loans\n\n2:54\n\ni take a step into the united states\n\n2:56\n\ndepart ment of agriculture and i stepped\n\n2:58\n\nback in time\n\n2:59\n\n387 d ays to process\n\n3:02\n\na black farm loan request in less than\n\n3:05\n \n30 days to process a white farmer's loan\n\n3:08\n\nrequest\n\n3:09\n\ni n the top 10 percent getters and u.s\n\n3:12\n\nfarm subsidies get over 1 million\n\n3:14\n\ndollars per farmer\n\n3:16\n\nand the average subsidy t o a black farm\n\n3:18\n\nis 222 dollars\n\n3:22\n\nno comparison we're no t even in the same\n\n3:25\n\nuh league and we haven't even made it to\n\n 3:27\n\nthat book\n\n3:28\n\nand as that process became more more\n\n3:30\ n\ndifficult more blacks left left farming\n\n3:33\n\nyou see both federal and local\n\n3:35\n\ngovernments have worked very\n\n3:37\n\nspecifically to deprive obstruct and\n\n3:39\n\nprevent land ownership by black people \n\n3:42\n\nlocal banks can deny loans local\n\n3:44\n\ngovernments can wr ite legislation that\n\n3:46\n\nbolsters those banks racist practices\n\n3 :49\n\nand the same thing happens on a federal\n\n3:51\n\nlevel too which has resulted in\n\n3:53\n\ncatastrophic losses within the black\n\n3:55\n\ nfarming community\n\n3:58\n\nso we experienced that from the\n\n3:59\n\ng overnment and and banks\n\n4:02\n\nbut we also faced that at local markets \n\n4:05\n\nthere was a time period where tobacco\n\n4:08\n\nbrought a hig her price when i sold it\n\n4:10\n\nthrough my white neighbor than it did\ n\n4:12\n\nwhen i sold it on my own\n\n4:14\n\noh\n\n4:15\n\nare you serio us yeah what year\n\n4:18\n\nah this is in the 90s\n\n4:20\n\nyeah\n\n4:21 \n\nand the i think you mad it makes me so\n\n4:24\n\nmad well it makes me it makes me mad\n\n4:29\n\nit gave me the drive and the motivation\n\n4:3 1\n\nto want to fix it yes\n\n4:34\n\nand\n\n4:35\n\nthat's what i sought out to do and\n\n4:36\n\nthat's what i've been doing for the past\n\n4:38\ n\n30 years\n\n4:39\n\nwhen black farmers sued the usda for\n\n4:41\n\nrac ial discrimination in 1993 and won\n\n4:44\n\nthey proved in court that th e federal\n\n4:46\n\ngovernment was systematically denying\n\n4:49\n\nloan s and financial support to black\n\n4:51\n\nfarmers\n\n4:52\n\nthat led to the largest civil rights\n\n4:54\n\nsettlement in u.s history but that\n\ n4:56\n\nsettlement money has only made it to\n\n4:58\n\nroughly 20 000 fa rmers of the 100 000\n\n5:01\n\nplus\n\n5:02\n\nthat were represented in t his suit\n\n5:04\n\nwhy\n\n5:05\n\nbecause bureaucratic red tape has cause d\n\n5:07\n\nthe proverbial can to just keep getting\n\n5:10\n\nkicked and rebundled under new bailout\n\n5:12\n\npackages\n\n5:18\n\n[Music]\n\n5:3 2\n\nyou\n\nEnglish (auto-generated)\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n IN AMENDMENT\n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO2kWD1EjuM\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n TRANSCRIPT\n \n\n\n 0:02\n\nwe're back with more of the exploitation\n\n0:05\n\nof blac k farmers in America now several\n\n0:08\n\nof them have sued and recently received\n\n0:10\n\nback pay after it was discovered by the\n\n0:13\n\nU. S labor department that immigrant\n\n0:15\n\nworkers white immigrant worke rs were\n\n0:17\n\nbeing given more money than the black\n\n0:19\n\nfarmer s and the black farmers were doing\n\n0:21\n\nthe exact same job it's a di sturbing\n\n0:23\n\nreality for many black American farmers\n\n0:26\n\nwho se numbers are dwindling by the day\n\n0:28\n\nstill with us is John Boyd Jr he's the\n\n0:31\n\nfounder and president of the national\n\n0:32\n\nbl ack Farmers Association now John when\n\n0:36\n\nyou were here uh we wante d to address\n\n0:38\n\nsome of the concerns we've had this\n\n0:40\n\ncon versation but we want to go deeper\n\n0:41\n\nrecently we saw that a feder al judge\n\n0:44\n\ndismissed your lawsuit about the four\n\n0:46\n\nbilli on dollar debt relief program for\n\n0:49\n\nblack Farmers essentially tha t was\n\n0:50\n\nPresident Biden including a specific uh\n\n0:54\n\nelemen t of that package that was\n\n0:55\n\nsupposed to provide relief to Black\ n\n0:57\n\nFarmers he reneged on that promise you\n\n1:00\n\nuh and attorn ey cromp and others file\n\n1:02\n\nsuit and now it's been dismissed where \n\n1:04\n\ndo you go next in this case\n\n1:07\n\nwell we have filed an a ppeal uh to\n\n1:11\n\nappeal that decision and and federal\n\n1:13\n\ncou rt and I'm hopeful that the courts\n\n1:15\n\nwill take a deeper look at I 'm going to\n\n1:17\n\nuse your words a deeper look into what\n\n1:18\n\nr eally happened uh to Black Farmers you\n\n1:21\n\nknow every time uh that we're promised\n\n1:23\n\nsomething in this country uh as black\n\n1:26\n\ npeople and in this case black Farmers\n\n1:28\n\nthey find a way not to g et us through\n\n1:31\n\nthe resources that are promised to us we\n\n1:33\ n\nwere promised a hundred and twenty\n\n1:35\n\npercent debt relief for t hat's for every\n\n1:36\n\nuh black farmer who is eligible and\n\n1:39\n\n other farmers of color uh that means 100\n\n1:41\n\ndebt relief 20 uh to p ay the taxes and\n\n1:46\n\nCongress repealed it under the\n\n1:49\n\nlead ership of uh President Biden and and\n\n1:52\n\nrecently he just we lost a big decision\n\n1:55\n\nand affirmative action people black\n\n1:57\n\npe ople going backwards we need to wake\n\n1:59\n\nup here we lost a big deci sion and on\n\n2:01\n\naffirmative action and the President\n\n2:03\n\nsay s he's going to dig deeper uh to come\n\n2:06\n\nup with something from on the stroke of\n\n2:08\n\nrepent from from his desk to help get\n\n2:11\n\ naround a possible on the actual debt\n\n2:14\n\nrelief measure for for co llege tuition\n\n2:17\n\nand all of these things we need him to\n\n2:19\n\ nuse this stroke of the pen to help get\n\n2:21\n\naround the issues that facing America's\n\n2:23\n\nblack farmers and uh you know why I\n\n2:26\n\ nwasn't at the same outrage when this\n\n2:28\n\nAdministration went back on its word to\n\n2:30\n\ndo that we're always overlooked and the\n\n2:34\ n\nfixed problem in this country and we\n\n2:36\n\nwere the nation's uh fi rst first black\n\n2:39\n\noccupation here in the country for black\n\n2:4 1\n\npeople so I turned to I turned my fight\n\n2:43\n\nto the federal cou rts hoping that we can\n\n2:46\n\nget some uh resolve there if not I'm\n\n 2:49\n\ngoing to take my fight to the upcoming\n\n2:51\n\npresidential ele ction\n\n2:53\n\nand to let Americans know that we've\n\n2:56\n\nbeen left out and uh for people on the\n\n2:59\n\nhill telling me Boyd you got to t ake\n\n3:01\n\nthis one on the chin uh you don't have a\n\n3:03\n\nway out on this uh I'm gonna take my\n\n3:06\n\nfight right out here to the Ameri can\n\n3:07\n\npeople and let the American people make\n\n3:09\n\nthe deci sion on how we were treated as\n\n3:12\n\nas voters in this country becaus e we\n\n3:15\n\nvoted probably 99 for our president uh\n\n3:18\n\nbidener hasn't been a sit-down meeting\n\n3:20\n\nwith the president\n\n3:21\n\nan d there hasn't been a seat a sit down\n\n3:24\n\nmeeting with his act secr etary I mean\n\n3:26\n\ncome on people that's a given for a body\n\n3:28\n \nof people who voted in a block uh to\n\n3:31\n\nsupport this Administrat ion well and\n\n3:33\n\nalso John Boyd an Administration and a\n\n3:36\n\n president that said during his\n\n3:37\n\ninauguration speech that he did owe\n\n3:39\n\nBlack America to your point of his debt\n\n3:42\n\nuh that he owes the black electorate uh\n\n3:44\n\nas to the result of him even be ing the\n\n3:47\n\n46th president of the United States\n\n3:49\n\nsomethin g else I want to bring up is\n\n3:51\n\nsomething you said in our previous \n\n3:52\n\nconversation before the break here you\n\n3:54\n\nsaid that Bl ack America needs to realize\n\n3:56\n\nthat we've got more work to do tal k\n\n3:59\n\nabout how important it is that black\n\n4:01\n\nAmerica kind of connects the dots what's\n\n4:03\n\nhappening and the distributment of black\n\n4:05\n\nFarmers what's happening with the\n\n4:06\n\ngutting of a ffirmative action what's\n\n4:08\n\nhappening with black people\n\n4:09\n\ ndisproportionately caring more student\n\n4:11\n\nloan debt that they wil l not get relief\n\n4:13\n\nfrom in your\n\n4:15\n\nexperience because you are a man of\n\n4:17\n\nsignificant lived American Experience do\n\n4:19\ n\nyou believe that what's happening right\n\n4:21\n\nnow John Boyd is a b acklash of what some\n\n4:25\n\nAmericans some white Americans uh some\n\n 4:28\n\nfederal government leaders feel has been\n\n4:30\n\ntoo much quote progress of Black Folk in\n\n4:32\n\nthis country\n\n4:34\n\nI believe it 's a continuation a slow uh\n\n4:40\n\ndrag now or takedown uh might I des cribe\n\n4:43\n\nit as what's happened to us as uh black\n\n4:46\n\nFarmer s didn't just start with uh\n\n4:49\n\nPresident Biden where uh openly\n\n 4:52\n\nsupported him and got on early early on\n\n4:54\n\nit took a chanc e with this uh president\n\n4:56\n\nearly on when there were many candidat es\n\n4:58\n\nin the race I supported this president\n\n5:00\n\nfrom the a dministration to\n\n5:02\n\nAdministration from Congress to Congress\n\n5: 04\n\nwe failed to fix the problem at the\n\n5:07\n\nUnited States Departm ent of Agriculture\n\n5:09\n\nand his farm lending programs around the\n\n 5:12\n\ncountry and and AG lending and the top\n\n5:15\n\n10 agriculture c ompanies these are all\n\n5:18\n\nissues that we're facing every day we\n\ n5:20\n\nare those big names that were that\n\n5:23\n\nhaven't down you kn ow my number to talk\n\n5:25\n\nabout this get educated on it and to see\n \n5:28\n\nhow they can lend their voice now\n\n5:31\n\nsometimes people is not your checkbook\n\n5:32\n\nsometimes it's your voice saying that I\n\n 5:36\n\nsupport the the black Farmers Movement\n\n5:38\n\nwe support uh th e lawsuit we support\n\n5:40\n\nthese black Farmers getting Justice well\n \n5:42\n\nlisten John boy Junior what we know is\n\n5:43\n\nyou are not go ing to take anything on\n\n5:45\n\nthe chin you're not going to take\n\n5: 46\n\nanything lying down nor should you and\n\n5:48\n\nhere at the grill we look forward to\n\n5:49\n\nhelping you amplify\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n IN AMENDMENT\n\n In July of 2024\, the National Black Farmers Association\, h elmed by President John Boyd\, Jr.\, secured a $2.2 billion payout for dis crimination in farm lending by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This victory is historic: it marks official acknowledgement and r estitution for Black farmers\, who for generations\, have faced unrelentin g discrimination in the farming industry.  \n\n https://www.brookings.edu /events/denied-no-more-a-conversation-with-john-boyd-president-of-the-nati onal-black-farmers-association/\n\n\n\n Prior Economic corner : https://a albc.com/tc/topic/11479-economiccorner013\n\n\n\n \n\n The Black Farmer in the USA\n\n\n\n POST URL\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11483-economiccor ner014/\n\n\n\n PRIOR EDITION\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/19 4-economic-corner-13-02152025/\n\n\n\n NEXT EDITION\n\n\n\n https://aalbc. com/tc/events/event/197-economic-corner-15-02172025/\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 02 162026\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Citation\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1247 1-economic-corner-14 /#findComment-80139\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  @ProfD \n\ n\n\n \n On 2/16/2026 at 12:37 AM\, ProfD said:\n \n\n \n \n In the me antime\, Black owned restaurants &\; grocery stores &\; schools\, et c.\, should be sourcing their products from Black farmers.😎\n \n \n\n\ n\n I wonder has Black Enterprise\, the black owned fiscal magazine\,  ev er made a study on black owned groceries/eateries sources. I think that wo uld answer what is truly going on between black farmers and black grocers/ eateries or HBCUs. Remember public schools are not black\, a public school is a government enterprise\, even if all the teachers+ students+ administ rators are black\, the logistics tend to be controlled by a school board\, which is white. For example in NYC\, public schools buy food as a collect ive bulk\, a huge contract\, but the scale allows for the price to be chea per\, if each school in nyc bought food on its own that would raise the co st of food extremely high. To your point\, I ponder about black farms and hbcus. Just from a regional perspective\, black farms are 90% former confe derate states. so\, if you have a black grocer in new york city or los ang eles\, it wouldn't be financially feasible to get beef from a black farm i n the carolinas over beef from pennsylvania or southern california or the midwest \, relatively. the greater distance alone raises the price. But I do think from texas to virginia\, every single black grocer/restaurant/his torical black college or university/black private high school  or element ary school should get food content from black farmers in the same south.  Maybe they already do? it is possible. I know of black grocers /restauran ts in new york city who get content from black farms from the south or car ibbean even though they arguably can get a cheaper product with the same q uality by proximity from a white farmer in the midatlantic states. \n\n\n \n  \n\n\n\n 02182026\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n citation\n\n\n\n https://aalbc.c om/tc/topic/12471-economic-corner-14 /#findComment-80181\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n osted just now\n\n\n\n @ProfD \n\n\n\n   On 2/16/2026 at 6:04 PM\,  ProfD said:\n\n\n\n I believe Black farmers are surviving by selling th eir produce in the same market as white farmers.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n It tak es all hands on deck to feed a country with 340 million people running aro und in it.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n Obesity is a very real problem here. Folks a re eating...a LOT.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n I can see it\, i still would love to know the details\, share it in the corner. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n yeah\, it is interesting obesity isn't a problem in new york city as percentage of the cities populace\, while obesity in some towns/counties \, rural places \, has a high obesity. White man says obesity in nyc is 28% while the bigg est states with obesity is the rural\, the deep south...west virginia/miss isippi/louisiana/alabama... \n\n\n\n It is an interesting balance. Hunger is a deeper problem in the NYC's of the usa while obesity is the bigger p roblem in the rural states. the distribution of farming goods\, clearly ne eds to change. It isn't that the usa doesn't make enough food\, but he way in which that food is distributed clearly is inefficient\, and the market is manipulated by whomever not to serve the needs of said 340 million wis ely. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n nyc\n\n\n\n https://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/Indicat orPublic/data-explorer/overweight/?id=2063#display=summary\n\n\n\n states\ n\n\n\n https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/slideshows/the-most-obese- states-in-america\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250215 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR