It's unfortunate that so many African Americans view agriculture as stepping back. Families that have worked hard to overcome the legacy of slavery, to put their kids through college, to make a "better" life, they see soil as dirt -- dirty. In fact, though, there was a long period of history following slavery in which Blacks owned land and thrived as farmers. They built thriving communities of relative wealth, and they ate well. White Supremacy, the structure in this country that is systematically designed to disempower People of Color, took that land from them, stripped them over the years of everything they had worked for. Too many of our African American citizens now do not thrive, do not have the food they once grew so well to feed their children.
On May 13, 2017 Jillian Wolf wrote:
It's unfortunate that so many African Americans view agriculture as stepping back. Families that have worked hard to overcome the legacy of slavery, to put their kids through college, to make a "better" life, they see soil as dirt -- dirty. In fact, though, there was a long period of history following slavery in which Blacks owned land and thrived as farmers. They built thriving communities of relative wealth, and they ate well. White Supremacy, the structure in this country that is systematically designed to disempower People of Color, took that land from them, stripped them over the years of everything they had worked for. Too many of our African American citizens now do not thrive, do not have the food they once grew so well to feed their children.