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Topic	Black Farmers sold crap seeds, while their white counterparts got the good stuff
FrisbeeDude 07/11/18 9:50:30 AM #1:	On another installament of "They Really want to make us 2nd Class citizens" https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/black-farmers-deliberately-sold-fake-seeds-scheme-steal-land-report/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Black farmers in the Mid-South region surrounding Memphis used science to uncover a multi-million dollar scheme to put them out of business and steal their farmland, WMC News reported Tuesday. At the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show show in March of 2017, African-American farmers believe that Stine Seed Company purposefully sold them fake seeds. Thomas Burrell, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, explained how black farmers were receiving one-tenth of the yield as their white neighbors. Mother nature doesnt discriminate, Burrell said. It doesnt rain on white farms but not black farms. Insects dont [only] attack black farmers landwhy is it then that white farmers are buying Stine seed and their yield is 60, 70, 80, and 100 bushels of soybeans and black farmers who are using the exact same equipment with the exact same land, all of a sudden, your seeds are coming up 5, 6, and 7 bushels? The results were so stark, resulting in millions of dollars in losses, the farmers took their seeds for scientific testing by experts at Mississippi State University. The tests revealed the black farmers had not been given the quality certified Stine seeds for which they had paid. Burrell suggested a land grab was the ultimate motivation of the perpetrators. All we have to do is look at here: 80 years ago you had a million black farmers, today you have less than 5,000. These individuals didnt buy 16 million acres of land, just to let is lay idle. The sons and daughters, the heirs of black farmers want to farm, just like the sons and daughters of white farmers. So we have to acknowledge that racism is the motivation here, Burrell concluded. The farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit in United States District Court for the Western Division in Memphis. #ButWeHadABlackPresident --- If you're not voting like a black woman, your opinion doesn't matter to me <cite>FrisbeeDude posted [p:904877493] in Black Farm... [t:76796927]...</cite> <quote>On another installament of "They Really want to make us 2nd Class citizens" https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/black-farmers-deliberately-sold-fake-seeds-scheme-steal-land-report/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Black farmers in the Mid-South region surrounding Memphis used science to uncover a multi-million dollar scheme to put them out of business and steal their farmland, WMC News reported Tuesday. At the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show show in March of 2017, African-American farmers believe that Stine Seed Company purposefully sold them fake seeds. Thomas Burrell, president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, explained how black farmers were receiving one-tenth of the yield as their white neighbors. Mother nature doesnt discriminate, Burrell said. It doesnt rain on white farms but not black farms. Insects dont [only] attack black farmers landwhy is it then that white farmers are buying Stine seed and their yield is 60, 70, 80, and 100 bushels of soybeans and black farmers who are using the exact same equipment with the exact same land, all of a sudden, your seeds are coming up 5, 6, and 7 bushels? The results were so stark, resulting in millions of dollars in losses, the farmers took their seeds for scientific testing by experts at Mississippi State University. The tests revealed the black farmers had not been given the quality certified Stine seeds for which they had paid. Burrell suggested a land grab was the ultimate motivation of the perpetrators. All we have to do is look at here: 80 years ago you had a million black farmers, today you have less than 5,000. These individuals didnt buy 16 million acres of land, just to let is lay idle. The sons and daughters, the heirs of black farmers want to farm, just like the sons and daughters of white farmers. So we have to acknowledge that racism is the motivation here, Burrell concluded. The farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit in United States District Court for the Western Division in Memphis. #ButWeHadABlackPresident --- If you're not voting like a black woman, your opinion doesn't matter to me</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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