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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,295 posts)
Fri Apr 7, 2023, 09:23 AM Apr 2023

Black farming community fights to get fair deal as state takes land for Ford plant roadways

Donny Ferguson Retweeted

Tennessee is attempting to use eminent domain to take land that has been in Black families for generations so Ford can build electric vehicles. The families just want a fair deal.

"They want your land, but they don’t want you to participate in the wealth"

tennesseelookout.com
Black farming community fights to get fair deal as state takes land for Ford plant roadways –...
Black farmers near Ford Blue Oval City say eminent domain moves by the Tennessee Department of Transportation is part of a generational fight.

As it ever was...
"In 1910, Black farmers owned more than 16 million acres of land, according to experts. In 2017, when the most recent agricultural census was done, that figure was just 4.7 million acres, about 0.5% of all farmland."

reuters.com
U.S. Black farmers lost $326 bln worth of land in 20th century -study
Black farmers in the United States lost roughly $326 billion worth of acreage during the 20th century, according to the first study to quantify the present-day value of that loss.





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Black farming community fights to get fair deal as state takes land for Ford plant roadways (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 OP
go find an inner city abandoned industrial park for your Ford labor exploitation bucolic_frolic Apr 2023 #1
again , the key word is black. lets do this in a rich white neighborhood . AllaN01Bear Apr 2023 #2
Destroying badly needed productive farmland is a very bad choice. cbabe Apr 2023 #3

bucolic_frolic

(47,301 posts)
1. go find an inner city abandoned industrial park for your Ford labor exploitation
Fri Apr 7, 2023, 09:33 AM
Apr 2023

not like there's an undersupply

AllaN01Bear

(23,192 posts)
2. again , the key word is black. lets do this in a rich white neighborhood .
Fri Apr 7, 2023, 10:12 AM
Apr 2023

ohm myyyyy. the racket. and werrnt the rs against eminent domain awhile back

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