A Word: Seeds of Justice for Black Farmers

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In a recent CBS News interview, Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance charged that the Biden administration was favoring Black farmers over white farmers in federal policy. That came days after the US Department of Agriculture began distributing more than $2 billion in relief to Black and other marginalized farmers who suffered historic discrimination from the agency. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by John Boyd, Jr., a family farmer and the president of the National Black Farmers Association. They discuss Vance’s allegations, the long road to the discrimination settlement, and the continued work of preserving African American farming communities. Guest: John Boyd Jr., founder, and president of the National Black Farmers Association Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:07.0	For years, the issues facing Black Farmers have been on the back burner of American politics,
0:12.0	but now that they've been targeted by JD Vance
0:15.2	over a multi-billion dollar discrimination settlement,
0:17.9	how are black farmers planning to fight for their future?
0:21.2	We're not going to get all our land back from USDA and from the federal government, but we can
0:26.6	start buying some land as a group of people in this country and pass along generational wealth to our children.
0:35.0	The future of Black Farmers coming up on a word with me Jason Johnson.
0:38.7	Stay with us.
0:40.1	Welcome to a word, a podcast about race and politics and everything else.
0:47.0	I'm your host, Jason Johnson for the last month or so that Ohio Senator
0:51.7	J.D. Vance has been the Republican nominee for Vice
0:54.1	President we've become familiar with hearing him speak and wondering what is he
0:58.5	talking about that was clearly the case recently when he made this comment on CBS's face the nation.
1:04.4	I do think that there's been this thing in America where we've said that we should
1:09.8	judge people
1:13.0	on their immutable characteristics,
1:14.0	based on things that they can't control.
1:16.0	I frankly think that unfortunately,
1:18.0	a lot of people on the left have leaned into this
1:21.0	by trying to categorize people by skin color and
1:24.2	then give special benefits or special amounts of discrimination.
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