Black Farmers were routinely cheated out of land ownership by the Federal Government - See the effect today

The US Department of Agriculture's own files disclose decades of policies that resulted in the loss of land owned by black farmers. Loss of that land had a ripple effect on the wealth gap that we see to this day. Another vector of justification for reparations for discriminatory practices and failure of equal protection under the US constitution. Read detail here:

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W. Kamau Bell: Black lives matter. Black farms do, too

As seen on "United Shades of America," running a family farm in the United States is incredibly difficult. And that was before Covid-19. Now the crisis is even worse -- especially for Black farmers like George Roberts, who are fighting a history of racism alongside the coronavirus.

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Black Farmers were routinely cheated out of land ownership by the Federal Government - See the effect today