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And I'm final signature on the family trust. Enslaved ancestors on the Land in AL - and additional agri in GA, and MS.
My ancestors never received a hand out. I've never taken one, my father as final signature never took one.
Wait - scratch that . . .
Had it handed to us. Black American farmers didn't get all of the freebies and head starts that white farmers have. That's just the facts.
My hard heartedness comes from me believing that they have mismanaged their farms.
When you farm to do anything other than FEED people in your community -
You will fail every single time. They flew too close to the sun relying on foreign markets -and so they are where they are.
I will absolutely resent the fuck out of them if they get yet ANOTHER 'too big to fail' hand out.
It's enough. Let my family pick up that - and we'll feed Americans. When you've never had a loan - EVER since 1866 - you can do that. You learn how to manage against what you have.
Also - my dad picked up a shit load of land in Arkansas in the late 80s for the agribiz - but to this day? It's still hot. We've been 'organic' without being labeled since the late 1960's.
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