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 ādisgraceful,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 Vanceās assertions.
āHe owes us an apology,āĀ John Boyd, Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told me. The remarks, Boyd added, were ādisgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful to the nationās Black farmers, the oldest occupation in history for Black people.ā
The deleted comment was that the date is listed at the top of the article. It is.
It says āAugust 16th 2024ā. Which . . . if my supercomputational calculating electronic abacai are correct - would be Friday, then?
Yes. The article, published on Friday, is about the founder of the National Black Farmers Association responding to something JD Vance said on Sunday. This should not be confusing you this much.
Pretty sure itās just me.