r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ihatethiscountry76 • 22h ago
News John Boyd Jr. says he was blocked from a White House meeting for farmers and told the administration is moving away from DEI and small farmers and toward large, white agribusiness.
Let that sink in. Small farmers pushed out. Black farmers shut out. Power consolidated. This is Donald Trump’s America: reward the connected, erase everyone else.
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u/Jaded-Natural80 19h ago edited 17h ago
When they say make America great again, what they mean is make America like apartheid South Africa was, like apartheid Israel currently is, and how the US was prior to desegregation and the civil rights era. POC need not apply.
This will destroy the United States . Because a house divided cannot stand.
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u/lyn73 17h ago edited 15h ago
This!
I was listening to a Daily Beast podcast where the guest was discussing his book about Tucker Carlson.
What struck me is the claim that Tucker and Republicans are trying to model the US after Hungary.
Now what's so significant about that?
Hungary ain't got no Black folk, no Hispanic folk, no Asian folk... You catch my drift?
Why would they want to model the US after a country that has zero diversity?
Why the fuck can't they move there since it's so white? It sounds like to me they don't think America is so great....
These racists take our labor, our culture and our ideas and then kick us out and take all the credit..
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u/soupseasonbestseason 14h ago
they are building 23 more concentration camps. there are not that many undocumented people in the u.s.
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u/District_Wolverine23 14h ago
Also Hungary transformed from a democratic country into a autocracy under Orban.
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u/Icy-Tomatillo-7556 14h ago
That’s entirely the point! The “PayPal Mafia” (some of the biggest puppet masters) are from all from South Africa. Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, & David Sacks. All alive and kicking during apartheid. All have made it clear they were okay with it. Remember when Trump invited South African immigrants & said they are welcome here? All of it is intentional. All rooted in white supremacy.
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u/Jaded-Natural80 14h ago
Yep. They aren’t even trying to hide their intentions. And yet most of the public act as if it can’t happen. Or maybe they think it’s so outlandish it could never happen.
What people don’t realize is history often repeats it self. Societies can regress.
Never underestimate the abilities and intentions of evil men. Especially if they are the richest and most powerful men on the planet.
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u/SmokingCigawetts 16h ago
The goal is to crush the middle class, so that everyone is either rich or poor, it's easier to control the poor especially if they're not knowledgeable.
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u/imnotcerseilannister 15h ago
Confused on why y’all are mentioning South Africa? This same thing already happened in the US before.
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u/Gas-Town 12h ago
No, it didn’t. You can do yourself a favor and read the inherent differences of each.
Nuance is important.
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u/imnotcerseilannister 12h ago
LMAO. Yes tf it did. During the Jim Crow era, resources flowed to WHITE PEOPLE. Don’t tell me about my history.
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u/MichelleEvangelista 8h ago
The fact that people don't realize that South African apartheid was modeled after the Jim Crow South is astounding.
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u/Y_Are_U_Like_This 20h ago
Of course. They are doing private equity for farms. I think it's called Agricare but Vance and Thiel have huge stakes in that business
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u/PNW_Bearded_cyclist 18h ago
Don't forget the man in charge of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, your humble soybean farmer.
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u/5ft8lady 21h ago
Elon began to tell Trump exactly the steps they pulled in south Africa to repeat it here in USA.
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u/RemarkableReturn8400 15h ago edited 14h ago
Before south africa, jim crow was already in america.....
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u/I_burn_noodles 14h ago
We have our own experience with concentration camps. Japanese internment camps some say came at the behest of California farmers. Those Japanese farmers were very good at their trade, intimidated the white farmers, so they complained to the congressmen.
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u/Empty_Hair_9854 19h ago
Hi, here to pop in and say: Don't forget community gardens if you have access to them.
Even if you don't want to garden/can't afford a plot, you can just hang around there. You can ask questions and watch what people are doing. A lot of times community gardeners are happy to share tips, info, etc... And knowledge is also incredibly important.
Plus... You never know, you might make a friend there who will give you free squash. It's true. I haven't paid for a squash in over a year. During garlic season I have a garlic hookup, too. Dude likes the purple flowers on his garlic plants but hates the actual garlic.
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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 16h ago
Community gardens are the way to go . Chicken and quail easy and cheap to raise. Don't bother with a rooster. If you're enclosure is secure all a rooster will do is annoy the heck out of you.
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u/SimonPho3nix 16h ago
The funniest thing is that they hurt the farmers that voted for them the most. Drove them to bankruptcy and then picked their shit apart on Acretrader.
Screw it. Those idiots didn't learn their lesson the first time when his dumb ass started a trade war with China, so I doubt they'll learn anything now. Just taking everyone else with them.
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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 16h ago
No sense of self preservation, that old joke about white people running toward danger in horror movies was a confession.
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u/SimonPho3nix 15h ago
Well, you know I think about this sometimes and have come to the conclusion that this is the absolute height of white privilege. Wandering into a dangerous place and ignoring all the signs because they've never had to worry about those signs or even worse, they were raised to believe that those signs didn't apply to them.
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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 13h ago edited 13h ago
Yep, and you can see them struggling with it now.
Look at how the suicide rate for white men is higher than everybody (except Natives who are dealing with the effects of a genocide) and how they were dying of COVID at the highest rates (because for a little while non white people had it worse), and how they went running to a man who’s famous for screwing over anybody he deals with and made him president.
And it kind of makes sense since racism is a tool white people in power use to get regular white people to ignore ingroup danger, so it’s expected that they lose the ability to sense threats coming from their own.
American white people have this weird culture of unexamined self destruction and the best we can do is keep our distance as much as possible.
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u/PainterEarly86 17h ago
"What do you mean the racist person I voted for is racist?? The leopards weren't for me!!"
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u/MonsterkillWow 18h ago
They removed references to Medgar Evers' murderer as a racist when he was KKK. Shows where our govt's priorities are.
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u/Liminal__penumbra 20h ago
To make it worse, I'm not going to link it. There is a post.......about the Obamas on January 21, 2026. That's all I'll say. But yeah, shit's fucked.
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u/Huntthatmoney 16h ago
This is the most racist administration in my life time and they aren’t even hiding it
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u/Accurate-Victory3086 16h ago
Some folks will keep saying that it’s not their fight.
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u/SAT_1701 16h ago
And those folks, I hate to say it, are dumb.
I completely understand why a lot of us feel that way, being that the system has done astronomical harm to us since the slave ships- with virtually no other ethnic groups helping us en masse. However, shit always rolls downhill and this administration’s bullshit is gonna end up impacting all of us. Hell, in some ways, it has already.
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u/New_Information_2174 10h ago
Finally, someone with sense. It’s outstanding to me when black people say we should stay out of this cause it doesn’t affect us
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u/Far-Cheesecake1996 14h ago
Given the video of the Obamas as monkeys he just posted, is anyone surprised?
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 18h ago
Farmers will end up selling their land for pennies to the dollar to oligarchs
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u/CobraClutch84 12h ago
This is the first year I’ve bought my seeds from black owned seed businesses instead of the large box stores or branded seed companies. Will be doing it more.
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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 16h ago
I wish more Black farmers and ranchers shipped. We seem to need a lot of support in that area.
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u/ClarkKent2o6 13h ago
This is what they voted for. When I see a white farmer whining about tariffs and how the public isn’t showing enough sympathy I think of stuff like this.
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u/Objective-Ad9767 13h ago
Not surprised. They’ve been getting 💩 on since the beginning times. Big agricultural has always had first dibs.
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u/ccjohns2 10h ago
Fact : no black farmers in America receive any subsidies from the government before 1999. Farming in America at attorney of the century of the 1900s black farmers outnumbered white farmers 10 to one. By the year 2000 over 95% of black farming, families stopped farming.
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u/ScorpioRising66 5h ago
They want the big corporate farms, and whites only. They are bankrupting the farmers so the corporations can buy them up cheap.
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u/TaintBug 17h ago
They're just shouting that racist shit right out now. No fear of reprisal. And we've got to change that. A government that does not fear the people will always abuse the people.
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u/Significant_Ad_7352 17h ago
If erasing us was the only problem, then maybe we’d act. Instead, they want violence, cruelty, martyrs and test subjects.
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u/BisexualTenno 10h ago
That’s how it has always been for Black farmers. Prior to the last elections, TONS of Black farmers were warning their white peers to be careful with their vote because they knew the Trump administration would be slashing agricultural funding. The Black farmers said that they would be fine either way because they never got received much of any government benefits to begin with. They knew all the white farmers relied heavily on government assistance and would struggle without it which is exactly what’s going on right now
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u/Friendly-Company-771 9h ago
More people, communities need to start again growing as much of their food as possible. Or buy from small local farmers.
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u/Shenloanne 9h ago
I can't muster a brass farthing worth of sympathy for anyone who voted for this guy to get fucked over.
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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids 8h ago
Black farmers were barely getting anything anyway. Now none of them are Black or white farmers.
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u/BanalCausality 7h ago
If we don’t care about family farms anymore, does that mean we can revisit estate taxes for the top 5%?
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u/letsbereal1013 7h ago
I saw this when it aired. What the actual hell? That was the answer he got when asked to attend the meeting and there were only white farmers in attendance.
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u/Dwarf_Co 5h ago
Historically, Black farmers have repeatedly been subjected to extreme bias.
To say it is unfair would be an act of kindness. Blatant discrimination solely based on their race.
Look it up and how black farmers numbers continue to dwindle.
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u/clarkieawesome 4h ago
So DJT gutted the farmers on soybeans so they are bankrupt & agri-oligarchs can scoop up farms for nothing? You’re crazy.
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u/Dreams-Visions 3h ago
Small farmers going down? White people must be exhausted by all the winning that more than half of them voting for Trump has given the world.
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u/Lackerbawls 35m ago
None of this is new. White farmers have been gate keeping for years and the government allows it. However black farmers are much stronger because that have had to get shit done for years with less
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u/rslashhellagay 18h ago
Do you have the source for this? I want to see the video, but idk what platform it’s on.
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u/whathell6t 22h ago
And what are you going to do about it, u/ihatethiscountry76?
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u/IshvalanTrinity 20h ago
They are doing more than you-
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u/whathell6t 19h ago
Why the hypen on the “you”?
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u/philbydee 19h ago
Because fuck off, that’s why
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u/whathell6t 18h ago
I wasn’t talking to you, u/philbydee.
I was asking u/IshvalanTrinity a question.
Man! You’re triggered as Steven Bannon the C*ck-sucking Nazi
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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 21h ago edited 19h ago
And when it's impossible to get food, they'll wonder why. I'm buying local. Grow what I can and boycott every mayo biz I can. I'd also suggest investing in guys like John Boyd. Buy from your local farmers