The Somali Farmer Rises

Proof

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Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Muhidin Libah was living in Syracuse, New York when he received a call from a Somali Bantu community in Maine. They wanted his help setting up a non-profit organization that would run a farm aimed to serve the growing Somali Bantu émigré community in the Pine Tree State. As Muhidin answered the call, he wondered whether they should stick to setting the organization up with a strictly for-us-by-us mentality, or whether they needed allies in a place that had shown hostility to his people. What does it mean to set up a farm--for and by a minority community--in a predominantly white region? Reporter Ashia Aubourg digs in. This story is based on Ashia's story in Cuisine Noir. Visit the Somali Bantu Community Association of Maine's website to find out more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Black people have been fighting for liberation for centuries.
0:10.0	I have a dream, that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its
0:25.2	dream. One question that continuously rises to the surface as we see generations on this fight
0:39.1	is, what does the quest for black liberation look like? For me, it looks like everyone having
0:46.6	access to healthy foods no matter where they live, no matter how much money they make, and no matter
0:53.7	their particular beliefs in life. According to Feeding America, an estimated 24 percent of Black
1:01.0	people in the U.S. experienced food insecurity in 2020, you might have heard of these experiences
1:06.7	being called food deserts or food parties. There are many food deserts and food parties in various
1:12.8	cities across the United States. That looks like several things. It looks like going into a grocery
1:18.6	store and having very limited access to fresh produce. It could also look like having said fresh
1:24.8	produce only accessible if you've driven any particular amount of miles, maybe 20 or more,
1:30.5	outside of your immediate neighborhood. Growing up in Detroit in the 70s and the 80s, I didn't
1:37.1	experience food deserts very much, but over the past 25 to 30 years, I've seen a very deep change
1:43.6	in the city. Food deserts and food parties are far more common than I'd like to admit,
1:50.6	but it also got me very curious as to what people are doing to create food liberation,
1:56.7	and not only Detroit, but various cities across the United States. I think today's story is
2:03.3	really going to hit home about what people are doing to make a change in their communities.
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