This is a education I never received

[bseballaggie]

youtu.be/QOPGpE-sXh0

[durhamgsoaggie]

Enlightening video.

[Maxell]

Yeah. I saw this a few weeks ago. He pulled together all of the pieces I knew about and put them into a nice neat package. The most enlightening thing to me was how much money was made in the cotton industry. Do this math in today's dollars: Cotton sells for about $63/lb. An acre of land yields about 795 lbs. That's $50,000 yield per acre. If our ancestors planted on "40 acres" that's the equivalent of $2 million per year. How would our lives have been different building that level of generational wealth for the last 150 years?

That pisses me off because like many, my ancestors were farmers in NC and SC.

[bseballaggie]

This should be a must see video for our kids, it continues to aggravate me because today’s black farmers are blocked from the financial, giveaways that the government proudly supports, yet black farmers yield some of the largest and best looking crops I’ve seen since I was a kid, I’m a member of their group on Facebook, and follow their stories they are systematically left out of the distribution process of farm to market, studies show that it takes a lot of money and the right contact with the Brokers in the market to get in, we have the trucks and trailers. You should see the farms in Ga and Fla, they have whole Mexican communities, built on their farms, with school buses they carry them everywhere.

[bseballaggie]

I’ve heard white folks say they want the constitution destroyed and rewritten, because it benefits people of color, so many of them don’t see how systemically beneficial it is to them, but it truly shows how dynamic we are as a people with the success we have, against a structure that is so deeply rooted against us, and they wonder how the pyramids were built.

[oldschool]

Powerful , must see for every person in this country ,it affirms what we already knew ,the brother has "receipts".