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steve2470

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Fri May 26, 2017, 01:40 PM
May 2017

Here's an article from The Root about it:

http://www.theroot.com/farmingwhileblack-black-va-farmer-says-nervous-white-1795498504

When discussing the dangers of “____ while black” in this white-settler colonial project known as the United States, the media focus is typically on expensive shops, wealthy white enclaves, airports, parks, city sidewalks, predatory hypermarkets—you know, any place where white people are known to click their heels three times—9-1-1—and lock all the Negroes away.

Now Chris Newman, the owner of Sylvanaqua Farms in Albemarle County, Va., has broken down the dangers of farming while black so that it can forever and consistently be broke.

In a Facebook entry that has since gone viral, Newman posted an image of white supremacists gathered at Charlottesville, Va.’s Lee Park and waving that filthy rag of a Confederate flag in protest of the City Council’s vote to remove a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

White supremacist Richard Spencer also led a lynch mob in support of the statue. Wielding torches in a nighttime ritual reminiscent of a Ku Klux Klan rally, the mob chanted, “We will not be replaced”; “Blood and soil,” which is a Nazi rallying cry; and “Russia is our friend.”

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