#american south
The articles are hereand here.
From the second one: “In 1910, Black farmers owned more than 16 million acres of land, according to experts. In 2017, when the most recent agricultural census was done, that figure was just 4.7 million acres, about 0.5% of all farmland.” The value estimate is for “1920 and 1997 in the 17 states where almost all Black-owned farms were documented.”
They concluded the article with: “A Biden administration effort to provide debt relief to farmers of color as part of the American Rescue Plan Act, framed as repair for past USDA discrimination, is currently stalled in court after white farmers argued it was discriminatory.”
“People of color,” “BIPOC,” whatever “of color” is harmful and they know it . When there is a specific thing that deeply affects Black Americans, they love to shoehorn “POC” or “Black and brown” just to make everyone feel included even tho it’s not their fight nor does it affect them. God forbid if Black Americans finally receive restitution for this country’s unpaid debts towards us huh… Lump everyone in … This is how things never benefit Black Americans, but others…if anything is actually done…
Just how Biden shoehorned in Native Americans (italicized for the Dawes Rolls $5 Indians) as a stipulation when it comes to Black Americans (despite our lineage reflecting American Indian descent through the US census records going as far back to the 1500s and those oral familial tribe stories generationally passed down) finally receiving federal and state reparations for chattel slavery and lost land, and federal and state-sanctioned laws that created and still heavily piles atop the the centuries deep wealth disparity between Black Americans and white Americans/others immigrating in.
So why was the land seized? You know why. But for clarity:
-It’s more profitable for stolen land from Black Americans now headed by white farmland owners (to generate more wealth disparity in favor of white wealth) and Latino farmland owners to enlist cheap (illegal) labor through Latino farming in America. Just as with carpentry. This was originally filled with Black Americans who built this country and their descendants soon became less sought after to keep the monetary payout low. Trading places. Cheaper (illegal) labor. This is where you insert mass immigration which leads to food insecurity and land disparity for new residents. Mass immigration has never/will never benefit any country.
-White South Africans have been coming over here displacing Black American farmers in states like Mississippi.A continuation into the wealth and land disparity. They’ve been in court for a minute where Black farmers are suing in regards environmental racism (pay disparity, benefits they weren’t allowed to receive, accommodation disparity where white South African acquired rent free housing, racial slurs; the works). South Africa is even keeping track.
- Bill Gates and his now ex-wife, Melinda, quietly became the largest individual farmland owners in the United States. How is this allowed? You know how and why.
- “China is buying up American farms. Washington wants to crack down. By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Agriculture Department.” This isn’t unfamiliar territory for a number of countries in Africa who’s seeing the same happen in their countries .
There’s a lot that goes into undermining an ethnic group. These are just a few. Meanwhile people say all we do is complain and look for (non-existent) handouts. Comedy…
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Ivar Wigan, The Gods, courtesy of the artist and Little Big Man Gallery
Exhibition on view through June 19, 2016 at Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles Fair & Paris Fair Exhibitor
1427 East 4th street #2, 90033 Los Angeles
www.littlebigmangallery.com
Little Big Man Gallery proudly presents Ivar Wigan’s first show in the United States.
Scottish Photographer, Ivar Wigan, presents a series of images taken around the street culture associated with the urban music scene of the American South. Captured on the urban fringes of multiple cities—predominately from Miami, Atlanta and New Orleans—the images are a defiant celebration of a marginalized and often demonized culture, here raised to iconographic status and suffused with a sense of admiration and empathy.
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…of this blog (indeed, of all my blogs), but I was recently looking through pictures in Southern Living and thought that I should update. So here I am, updating! Celebrating my doughface roots!
I’d like to get back to checking things off the Essential To-Do List, if not for tumblr’s enjoyment then for my own personal record keeping. It should be easier now that the weather is getting nicer and I won’t feel like I’m drowning under mountains of snow. I actually almost went to a Civil War 3-day festival today that I thought was in Maryland, but it ended up being in the middle of Tennessee, which… is a bit far from NY. Alas.
Anyway, so this isn’t a complete waste of a blog post, here’s a fun article that merges many of my interests (children, southern culture and Will and Kate, my adopted royal relatives):
The Royal Baby Proves All Southerners Are Basically Royalty
As a Northern baby, I feel slightly shunned, but as a doughface I am proud to have appropriated this fine, souther culture along with Prince George. We are all doughfaces at heart. <3
Belle Meade plantation house outside of Nashville, with authentic Civil War bullet holes in the columns!
Nashville, TN
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- Laura carries her cross and holds the past tight. Because if you throw the cross along the road, then not only the heaviness and pain will disappear, but also someone else’s empathy.
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decided to redraw some old art
and… unexpected but it was fun and nostalgic! so I want to do more redrawing of old but lovely illustrations
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well, it’s time for dark drawings from the past (~ﾟヮﾟ)~
i drew this thing for my oc’s story in June (oh, so much time has passed!), and i hope some day i’ll finish this story (at least in my mind lol)
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