Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)Ā said a lot of wild thingsĀ during his Sunday morning media blitz. But one of his comments has received far less attention than the others: Vance described a federal program that hasĀ distributedĀ nearly $2 billion to mostly Black farmers who experienced discrimination as ā€œdisgraceful,ā€ suggesting that it is racist against white people.

And now, the head of the largest group of Black farmers across the country is condemning Vanceā€™s assertions.

ā€œHe owes us an apology,ā€Ā John Boyd, Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told me. The remarks, Boyd added, were ā€œdisgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful to the nationā€™s Black farmers, the oldest occupation in history for Black people.ā€

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I donā€™t know whats more surprising.

    The fact that Vance said it.

    or the fact that theres still black Americans who support people like him and the republicans, then have the audacity to act shocked when conservatives go full racist against them again