INSANITY JUSTICE’ BILL WOULD TRANSFER UP TO 32 MILLION ACRES TO BLACK FARMERS

[Marie]

We have been offered dryland acres adjacent to our small property for sale. We want it really bad however the going price per acre is $4500. If we bought it we would never make a profit. Never. We really need it for extra pasture but at this price not gonna happen. Yet it is offered for free because of color of skin

 

[Raggedyman]

We have been offered dryland acres adjacent to our small property for sale. We want it really bad however the going price per acre is $4500. If we bought it we would never make a profit. Never. We really need it for extra pasture but at this price not gonna happen. Yet it is offered for free because of color of skin

GIBSMEDAT!!!
an doos it rite naw - hea?
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[Randy in Arizona]

If this acreage is not restricted from resale or use as collateral for loans, it will be owned by others within a decade.
Even then it may be lost to unpaid taxes.
Really a pizzpoor idea on the whole.

697

 

[Publius]

If this acreage is not restricted from resale or use as collateral for loans, it will be owned by others within a decade.
Even then it may be lost to unpaid taxes.
Really a pizzpoor idea on the whole.

697

I was thinking about that and I guess some of our congress reps need to add to this bill to prevent this and also they have to use percentage of this land for agriculture with in three years or it returns back to the government or it's original owner.

This would keep people that have set themselves in place to take advantage of this with the idea they get free land they can turn around and sell it and or turn it into a housing development.

 

[vessie]

And if you go back just a few years before the 'plantation era', the USDA must remember that it is Stolen Tribal Land.

So I would expect that the 'black farmers' will need to turn around and sign the deeds to the land to whatever tribe governed that region.

The USDA and black groups love to forget that there actually were and still are INDIANS (feather not dot) still living and under the above reasons in the article for giving away 'free land!' to the blacks, that it is not the USDA's right to give it away.

The USDA needs to just scrap their above, 'free giveaway'. V

 

[Millwright]

And if you go back just a few years before the 'plantation era', the USDA must remember that it is Stolen Tribal Land.

So I would expect that the 'black farmers' will need to turn around and sign the deeds to the land to whatever tribe governed that region.

The USDA and black groups love to forget that there actually were and still are INDIANS (feather not dot) still living and under the above reasons in the article for giving away 'free land!' to the blacks, that it is not the USDA's right to give it away.

The USDA needs to just scrap their above, 'free giveaway'. V

Really?

Howzabouts...

The indian vote is mostly locked up for Ds.

They are trying to recapture blacks who are straying off the reservation plantation.

At best, they would do a few parcels for photo-ops and 30 seconds on the MSM news, then the whole thing would disappear into bureaucrat world...with a few more gravy sucking pigs getting a salary for just existing.

 

[Wildweasel]

Same old program. Give Indians 80 acres. Others come and buy it cheap later. The elite I reckon will be the buyers later.

I foresee a lot of "farmland" in certain areas being bought up "at market prices" (and the point of a gun) then being handed out to POLITICALLY CONNECTED blacks. Who will then sell it at huge profit because the developers who never could get the farmers to sell, dreamed up this scheme to get the farmland.

I can just wait to be amazed that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, et al are all wanna be farmers who will be awarded land right where the next Amazon super-complex of Tesla gigafactory is going to be built.

 

[vessie]

Really?

Howzabouts...

The indian vote is mostly locked up for Ds.

They are trying to recapture blacks who are straying off the reservation plantation.

At best, they would do a few parcels for photo-ops and 30 seconds on the MSM news, then the whole thing would disappear into bureaucrat world...with a few more gravy sucking pigs getting a salary for just existing.

You are totally right there!

That is what will happen, it always does.

The only Indian votes that are locked up for the D's are usually the poor and ignorant.

There are largely thousands upon thousands of college educated, business owning Indian R's too.

Luckily after Obunghole not commuting my cousin Leonard Peltier's sentence but did for a bunch of his crack ho bro's and so, this sent many of the D's in the fam over to the R side.

They finally had a bit of reality hit them in the face.

Many think (due to the wonders of media) that all Indians are poor, alchie drug addicts who are too lazy to get their asses off the Rez to work, those are 'highlighted' by the mainstream media, but the reality of the truth is far different.

We are everywhere.

If Trump were to commute Leonard's sentence it would do two things, move a major voting block to the R side and another one that has nothing to do with Indians and I can't say it here.

And he might as well do it as a parting shot if he has to leave the WH, as the saying goes, "In for a penny, in for a pound". V

 

[vessie]

I foresee a lot of "farmland" in certain areas being bought up "at market prices" (and the point of a gun) then being handed out to POLITICALLY CONNECTED blacks. Who will then sell it at huge profit because the developers who never could get the farmers to sell, dreamed up this scheme to get the farmland.

I can just wait to be amazed that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, et al are all wanna be farmers who will be awarded land right where the next Amazon super-complex of Tesla gigafactory is going to be built.

Yep!

This is Exactly what will happen.

History repeating itself. V

 

[Millwright]

Here's another factor.

 

[Bones]

And a mule?

Actually, doing the original math.... 4 mules.

 

[Weps]

It stated pretty clearly in there that the USDA would purchase land, from willing sellers, at fair market values.
I don't have a problem with that part. It seems to be keeping productive land, in production. That is an absolute must going forward. I knew black farmers growing up. They were pretty savvy, and hard workers too. They were pretty adept at raising hogs and grain (East Texas, Georgia).
It also looks like they have to prove that the land is used for production, and new farmers will have to attend the same type of continuing education that I have to in order to maintain my pesticide applicators license here in Texas.

I haven't a single issue with farmers be they white, black or otherwise...but we have to ask the real questions here; Is there a large collective of black folks vying to be farmers? Its not as if there is a surplus of folks, regardless of race, knocking down doors to become farmers.

I have a feeling this is more a "Field of Dreams" boondoggle where some misguided progressive souls in government and academia think they'll right all the imagined wrongs and if they just provide the means folks will just coalesce out of the ether to build and work said farms.

32M acres is about 72,000 farms worth of land based on USDA data... USDA data also states 1.3% of the population are farmers...with a steady annual decline in that percentage.

I've helped upkeep a family garden plot, raise chickens, and various other homesteading chores...that was a busy day...operating a farm, I wouldn't even begin to assume the wear-with-all or dedication it takes. Unless your born and raised in it, I don't see many non-legacy farming begging farmers making it past the first year of operation.

 

[anna43]

The numbers they need to look at are the decrease in number of farmers since 1920. Back then a family could survive on 80 acres but as time moved on the 80s were bought up and became 160 then 240 and now a single farm can be 1000's of acres. Often a farmer might not own 1000's of acres but will cash rent or crop share other's land. Just looking at the decrease of black farmers without equating that number to the decrease of farmers in general is meaningless.

The cost to get into farming today beyond the actual land is astronomical. We're talking millions of dollars for equipment to do row crop farming. Listen to some of the numbers on Cole the Cornstar vlog. To successfully farm you need knowledge of government rules of which there are many, bookkeeping, financial planning, farm taxes, how to operate all the equipment, mechanical to do repairs, special training to be able to apply chemicals, ability to cope with crop failures, marketing and a zillion other details, Raising livestock or specialty niche farming each needs it own special knowledge and hand-on experience. This year Iowa farmers were treated to drought and a derecho really fun times and the taxes, operating and equipment loans, fuel, seed, chemicals, etc. all still need to be paid.

 

[Troke]

Oh Good Grief! Lease the land out for $300/acre + taxes and live high on whatever floats your boat. (Metaphor there.)

 

[packyderms_wife]

Maybe it's in South Africa? IF the land is in S.A. this is an outstanding idea.

I'm willing to buy a couple of plane tickets, one way of course.

 

[LittleYellowFlower]

Sen. Booker Introduces Bill to Transfer Land to Black Farmers

Three Democrat senators have introduced a bill that would reform the U.S. Department of Agriculture and create a system of land grants to transfer millions of acres to Black farmers at no charge.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., the lead sponsor of the bill, tweeted Tuesday, "I'm proud to team up with @ewarren and @SenGillibrand to introduce the Justice for Black Farmers Act. We need to balance the scales after decades of systemic racism within @USDA have harmed Black farmers."

The bill was announced on Nov. 19 by Booker, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and is set to be released on Nov. 30.

Booker told Mother Jones the bill aims to reverse the "destructive forces that were unleashed upon Black farmers over the past century — one of the dark corners of shame in American history."

A new USDA agency called the Equitable Land Access Service would buy agricultural land from willing sellers and "convey grants of that land to eligible Black individuals at no cost to the eligible Black individuals," the bill states.

Through the race-based land transfer program, up to 32 million acres of land would be under Black ownership in a decade, which is seven times the amount currently in Black-owned farms, according to Agriculture.com.

The fund devotes $8 billion annually to the project and aims to make 20,000 grants each year of up to 160 acres through 2030.

Read Newsmax: Sen. Booker Introduces Bill to Transfer Land to Black Farmers

(I would have preferred to put this under WTF!?)

 

[Meadowlark]

can we say zimbabwe?

 

[Lurker]

No, I can't say Zimm...whatever. I can say, if this were to somehow go through and it becomes SA like, that we, those of us willing to uphold our oath, will know exactly where the robbers live and that they'll have lots of open spaces around them. Go ahead, kick a white farmer out for a ligger. Go ahead.

 

[packyderms_wife]

(I would have preferred to put this under WTF!?)

Communism would have been a better designation.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

Bro. Nowski was right. South Africa here we come!

 

[Meadowlark]

It happened in the former Rodesia fist, serving as the template for south africa.

 

[nomifyle]

for goodness sake, just because "they" want to do this does not mean its going to happen.

God is good all the time

Judy

 

[zeker]

would this be for 'brownie' points?

 

[Millwright]

Merged

 

[packyderms_wife]

Many think (due to the wonders of media) that all Indians are poor, alchie drug addicts who are too lazy to get their asses off the Rez to work, those are 'highlighted' by the mainstream media, but the reality of the truth is far different.

We are everywhere.

Yep, there are millions of us working in offices, coal mines, the oil patch, your local restaurant, WM, and are farmers... and there are hundreds of thousands of us that are educated and are doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. We also live in cities, the suburbs, and even small towns.