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In reply to the discussion: Black farmers were deliberately sold 'fake seeds' in scheme to steal their land: repo [View all]PoorMonger
(844 posts)59. This is because
Like I said in my initial response ; for farmers their financial viability is always tied to the land they have. More than anything a farmer owns his or her land is their primary asset and without it they have nothing to work, good seed or bad.
If they are subsequently cheated and financially destroyed by it then a primary option for getting out from under it is selling the land and moving out. This kind of thing is not new and has been done in the past to both Native Americans and sharecroppers.
While the schemes first return will be to sell shitty seed the real coup can come later when developers or other more diserable farmers come in and get the land on the cheap.
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Black farmers were deliberately sold 'fake seeds' in scheme to steal their land: repo [View all]
applegrove
Jul 2018
OP
While I agree with your use of those B/W terms we should be careful about imputation
erronis
Jul 2018
#45
You are SO right, and I usually avoid using black as evil. Thank you for the reminder. Edited.
ancianita
Jul 2018
#48
I hope the Chinese tariffs put all the crackers involved in this swindle out of business.
roamer65
Jul 2018
#19
Surely you would have expected a reasonable amount of white farmers to have suffered, if that were
OnDoutside
Jul 2018
#22
The OP is suggesting they are out to steal the land of black farmers, you are suggesting, no this is
OnDoutside
Jul 2018
#24
No, I queried whether you were suggesting racism wasn't involved, when clearly it was.
OnDoutside
Jul 2018
#26
I never suggested that racism was not involved, though you keep trying to convince yourself I did
Snake Plissken
Jul 2018
#27
I have yet to be able to find a single article claiming that this seed company purchased any land
Snake Plissken
Jul 2018
#55
The story sensationally claims that this seed company is doing this to steal Black farmers land
Snake Plissken
Jul 2018
#57
I doubt this middleman who ripped them off cared about anything but getting the money in his pocket
Snake Plissken
Jul 2018
#60
You are worried for a company that at the very least sold inferior seeds to customers who just
Demsrule86
Jul 2018
#31
Wow...sounds definitely like a massive hate crime here...nail the assholes to the wall! NT
SWBTATTReg
Jul 2018
#52