“They Talked to Me so Hateful that I Just Quit”: Whites Blamed for Black Farmer Failure
Black farmers in America, formally organized into the overtly racial “National Black Farmers Association” or NBFA, are set to get billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money after claiming that “white racism” is the reason why they have failed in their enterprises.
The astonishing development, which will most likely take place once Congress reconvenes after the upcoming elections, is the result of a bill which will allege that “racism” is the reason why so many black farmers have gone bankrupt, particularly in the South.
A June 2008 convention of litigants, organized by Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala, provided an insight into the mindset which is driving the bill and its supporters.
An Associated Press report from the time takes up the story:
Ronnie Clark, 50, was among the first to sue. He said he tried to grow corn and peanuts in the 1980s but gave up after being denied loans from the government.
“I went and tried to get a loan and they talked to me so hateful that I just quit,” said Clark, who is from Brundidge, Ala., and now works on a transportation maintenance crew for the state. “They told me I had to own so much land for collateral. I just quit trying to borrow.”
The Obama administration has, not surprisingly, indicated that it is going to set aside $1.2 billion to pay out “discrimination” claims such as these. With more than 70,000 claimants, the total bill is however expected to be in excess of $3 billion.
This is not the first time that these obviously bogus “discrimination” claims by black farmers have ripped off the taxpayers.
In 1999, a $2 billion settlement was made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after the NBFA’s president testified before the United States House Committee on Agriculture and NFBA representatives met with President Bill Clinton at the White House.
That settlement has now been attacked by the NFBA as “incomplete” because a further 70,000 claimants were “excluded.” The current legislation will provide for these “new” cases.
There are a number of interesting points to emerge from this shameful episode:
- Once again, utterly spurious and obviously artificially invented “white racism” is being blamed for black failure.
If black farmers have failed because they are unable to meet basic loan requirements, that is hardly the fault of the government in general and white people in particular.
- The existence of a National Black Farmers’ Association and its official recognition at the highest level of government is clear proof that the only real “racism” is against white people.
Would a “National Association of White Farmers” be granted permission to testify before the Senate and be hosted in the White House? Unlikely, to say the least. Instead, such an organization would be hounded out of town as “racist.”
- The lack of a “National Association of White Farmers” means that there are no statistics available on the number of white farmers who have been denied loans.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claims that there are about 960,000 persons who claim farming as their principal occupation, and a similar number of farmers who claim some other principal occupation.
According to the EPA, for “the purposes of the U.S. Census, a farm is any establishment which produced and sold, or normally would have produced and sold, $1,000 or more of agricultural products during the year. (Government subsidies are included in sales.) By that definition, there are just over 2.1 million farms in the United States.
“It has been estimated that living expenses for the average farm family exceed $47,000 per year. Clearly, many farms that meet the U.S. Census’ definition would not produce sufficient income to meet farm family living expenses. In fact, fewer than 1 in 4 of the farms in this country produce gross revenues in excess of $50,000,” the EPA reported, adding that “an economically viable crop/livestock operation in the Corn Belt would have between 2,000 and 3,000 acres of row crops and between 500 and 600 sows.”
From these EPA figures, it is clear that farming is an extremely hard occupation and subject to intense financial pressures. It is a simple cop-out for blacks to blame whites for their own failure in maintaining and running these highly complex operations.
It is time that blacks and other nonwhites stopped blaming whites for all the ills which affect their communities and accept responsibility for their own actions.
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rip me off black man, but remember islam and the Muslims are by far the most racist group in the world. To this day they are enslaving blacks . To those blacks that are Muslim read your Koran and the Muslim history and still remain Muslim. If you do you are the fool . Muslims have no use for blacks except as slaves and tools.
Liberia is the perfect example. Also recall Haiti and what happened after they massacred all the French, who had made that country a shining jewel amongst its other island neighbors.
Blacks (most of them; there are individuals here and there who have been very successful) are simply incapable of sustaining most anything having to do with Western Civilization. And racism plays no factor. It is biological. Their brains evolved differently and most attempts to help them conform and prosper is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It is the main reason why they fail catastrophically in our educational systems.
Farming is very difficult, and even the best farmer is subject to whatever Mother Nature decides to do. It requires planning and the ability to solve and adapt to any problems that arise. And yes, there will be bad years despite the best of efforts. These are facts that blacks can't and won't understand. It's so much easier to blame whites. In psychology, it's called "projection", which is projecting all your bad or negative traits, as well as failures, onto another instead of owning up to the real reason behind the problems.
90% of the farms that were given to the Blacks in South Africa are not productive.
Zimbabwe was the food bowl of Africa, until the farms were stolen from the White farmers and handed to the Blacks.
Africa has the richest farmland in the world, yet they always seem to need Western Aid.
Blacks are an overwhelming majority in Africa and control all of their government institutions, so racism is not a factor either.
So what is left as reason for their failure to succeed at farming, both in Africa and the USA? Could it be they only have themselves to blame?
With the white man being the primary or perhaps only cause of all black failure, isn't it puzzling that so few blacks insist on an all black homeland or segregated living space? Rather than insist on being in our schools and neighborhoods, you would think they would try to get as far away from us as possible, so they could then finally achieve the unlimited success that is their birthright.
I used to have at least a little respect for the Nation of Islam for the fact that they professed to want their own homeland, that is, until I checked out their website and found that they expect whites to support them for about twenty or so years after achieving independence ,if that's what they wish to call independence. I would call it a welfare state. As I have often stated before, enough will never be enough!