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[-] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 day 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.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

We must stay divided or we might notice that we’re losing the class war.

[-] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

This is the thing that I literally do not understand. Self-segregation is the stupidest shit.

A coalition of independent farmers or farmers with a specific agenda is much better than dividing shit by race. Race is the least meaningful way to divide people.

My wife is black, but she's not stereotypical American black. If she owned a farm she could be on this list... and she has zero roots in the historical american bullshit. She's literally an immigrant who pulls six figures in the corporate world. Most of the people of her cultural background are trump supporters for some stupid fucking reason (they think trump will only deport the "other" POCs, not their own, surely THEIR brown people are better right? Morons.)

If her trump loving copatriots registered as "black' farmers they could be included in this list... and by buying through them we'd be supporting the establishment no less than if we just went to a mega-corpo grocery store.

I'm all for supporting businesses and groups that are doing something positive for the community or at the very least are trying not to actively make things worse for people but blindly "buying black" is stupid. I'd much rather buy from a fucking worker owned co-op farm that is politically aligned as far away from hate as possible.

[-] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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There ya go, you can make a site for each of those. Use promo code ImATroll for 0% off.

[-] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

We'd be better off with a website that has farms owned by the workers that are also politically aligned away from hateful views.

Race based delineation is stupid.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Owning a farm is not in any way the same as being farmhands.

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