MLK Blasts White Handouts.

[IM2]

"At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of Congress our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.​

The Homestead Acts passed in 1862, gave away 246 million acres of land. Research shows that 99.73 percent of that land went to whites, including white immigrants. 1.5 million white families were given free land or the equivalent of a minimum of $500,000 per family. Today 93 million whites still live on homestead land, which is at least 40 percent of the white population in America. That land has helped whites accumulate the wealth they have today.

The Homestead Acts began before the end of slavery. This alone should provide evidence of the limited benefit this act had for blacks in America. The Homestead Act provided that a person had to be a citizen to qualify and blacks were not given citizenship until 1866. The overturning of Field Order 15 by President Andrew Johnson also reduced the positive effect such land grants would have provided for blacks

"But not only did they give them land, "they built land grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms."​

"Not only that, today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to
farm, and they are the very people telling the black man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with, and this is the reality."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.​

For those who do not understand the reality of how the past extends into today, I present you with the Morrill Act of 1862. Early American society was based on agriculture. By the mid-1800s, the U.S. population was majority rural. So as Dr. King so eloquently described, the government saw the need to provide education and services to assist whites moving west to help them survive on the free land the government provided. Because of that, the United States Congress passed the Morrill Act of 1862, better known as the Land Grant Act. The act gave each state 30,000 acres of land per senator that was to be used to provide education in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, or any other profession available during that time in America. They used the grants of land to build colleges, thus Land Grant colleges are one result of the Morrill Act.

Needless to say, blacks were not allowed to attend many Morrill Act institutions. To combat this, the U.S Congress came up with the Agricultural College Act of 1890, (26 Stat. 417, 7 U.S.C. § 321 et seq.) or easier remembered as the Morrill Act of 1890. Signed on August 30, 1890, the Second Morrill Act made it so that black Americans could be admitted into Land Grant Colleges. States having separate colleges for blacks and whites were required to create colleges to train black students in agriculture, mechanical arts, architecture, and other professions of the time just like whites. This law created some of the Americas legendary HBCU’S, but until desegregation became the law, black land grant colleges were not equally funded. These land grants established white economic advancement and as Dr. King said, they established an economic floor for the European immigrants that entered America. At the same time, blacks were freed from slavery, and that economic floor was ripped out from under them thanks to President Andrew Johnson.

Williams, T. (2000). The Homestead Act: A major asset-building policy in American history (CSD Working Paper No. 00-9). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development. The Homestead Act: A Major Asset-Building Policy in American History

Land-Grant Colleges and Universities

Learn about the partners who collaborate with NIFA to address critical issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and communities.

nifa.usda.gov

https://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/morrill.html

TOPN: Agricultural College Act of 1890

www.law.cornell.edu

 

[Polishprince]

The idea of getting black people interested in agricultural work has been panned by modern libs, you know.

Gov. Deal of Georgia wanted to train urban inmates in his state's penal system in the field of agriculture and libs despised the idea.

"Peasants" are by definition farmers of the most deplorable kind so the European peasants had interest. Black people are really past picking cotton and other agricultural chores nowadays and find it offensive.

 

[Moonglow]

The idea of getting black people interested in agricultural work has been panned by modern libs, you know.

Gov. Deal of Georgia wanted to train urban inmates in his state's penal system in the field of agriculture and libs despised the idea.

"Peasants" are by definition farmers of the most deplorable kind so the European peasants had interest. Black people are really past picking cotton and other agricultural chores nowadays and find it offensive.

Really, forty five thousand black farmers would not agree.

 

[Sinajuavi]

"At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of Congress our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.​

The Homestead Acts passed in 1862, gave away 246 million acres of land. Research shows that 99.73 percent of that land went to whites, including white immigrants. 1.5 million white families were given free land or the equivalent of a minimum of $500,000 per family. Today 93 million whites still live on homestead land, which is at least 40 percent of the white population in America. That land has helped whites accumulate the wealth they have today.

The Homestead Acts began before the end of slavery. This alone should provide evidence of the limited benefit this act had for blacks in America. The Homestead Act provided that a person had to be a citizen to qualify and blacks were not given citizenship until 1866. The overturning of Field Order 15 by President Andrew Johnson also reduced the positive effect such land grants would have provided for blacks

"But not only did they give them land, "they built land grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms."

"Not only that, today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to
farm, and they are the very people telling the black man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with, and this is the reality."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.​

For those who do not understand the reality of how the past extends into today, I present you with the Morrill Act of 1862. Early American society was based on agriculture. By the mid-1800s, the U.S. population was majority rural. So as Dr. King so eloquently described, the government saw the need to provide education and services to assist whites moving west to help them survive on the free land the government provided. Because of that, the United States Congress passed the Morrill Act of 1862, better known as the Land Grant Act. The act gave each state 30,000 acres of land per senator that was to be used to provide education in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, or any other profession available during that time in America. They used the grants of land to build colleges, thus Land Grant colleges are one result of the Morrill Act.

Needless to say, blacks were not allowed to attend many Morrill Act institutions. To combat this, the U.S Congress came up with the Agricultural College Act of 1890, (26 Stat. 417, 7 U.S.C. § 321 et seq.) or easier remembered as the Morrill Act of 1890. Signed on August 30, 1890, the Second Morrill Act made it so that black Americans could be admitted into Land Grant Colleges. States having separate colleges for blacks and whites were required to create colleges to train black students in agriculture, mechanical arts, architecture, and other professions of the time just like whites. This law created some of the Americas legendary HBCU’S, but until desegregation became the law, black land grant colleges were not equally funded. These land grants established white economic advancement and as Dr. King said, they established an economic floor for the European immigrants that entered America. At the same time, blacks were freed from slavery, and that economic floor was ripped out from under them thanks to President Andrew Johnson.

Williams, T. (2000). The Homestead Act: A major asset-building policy in American history (CSD Working Paper No. 00-9). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development. The Homestead Act: A Major Asset-Building Policy in American History

Land-Grant Colleges and Universities

Learn about the partners who collaborate with NIFA to address critical issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and communities.

nifa.usda.gov

https://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/morrill.html

TOPN: Agricultural College Act of 1890

www.law.cornell.edu

Excellent exposé of institutional racism in the USA.

 

[Sinajuavi]

The idea of getting black people interested in agricultural work has been panned by modern libs, you know.

Gov. Deal of Georgia wanted to train urban inmates in his state's penal system in the field of agriculture and libs despised the idea.

"Peasants" are by definition farmers of the most deplorable kind so the European peasants had interest. Black people are really past picking cotton and other agricultural chores nowadays and find it offensive.

Black farmers who remain are a declining group. Like white farmers, many have lost land to agribiz.

There's a white guy who lived near here who refused to eat strawberries til the day he died, because he'd had to work in strawberry fields when young. What liberals (we are not "libs", watch your insulting mouth) are suspicious of is a program which might train them to do ag work but only to be able to then perform menial tasks for low pay, which would hardly be an improvement on sharecropping, a vile system in which many black and white ag workers were stuck in the post-emancipation South.

 

[TNHarley]

Excellent exposé of institutional racism in the USA.

Do you know what century 1862 was?
Good God almighty.

 

[Polishprince]

Really, forty five thousand black farmers would not agree.

45,000 is a wee percentage of the black people in this country.

Young blacks are interested in urban life, rappin' and pimpin'. Not milking a fucking cow or plowing a field.

Most- not all mind you- consider the idea of tending to chickens and picking tobacco to be "racist".

 

[Moonglow]

45,000 is a wee percentage of the black people in this country.

Young blacks are interested in urban life, rappin' and pimpin'. Not milking a fucking cow or plowing a field.

Most- not all mind you- consider the idea of tending to chickens and picking tobacco to be "racist".

There is but a wee number of white farmers also since farming has been mechanized and incorporated. Do you farm of are you an urban blight dweller? I myself do a little farming in rural America.

 

[jillian]

The idea of getting black people interested in agricultural work has been panned by modern libs, you know.

Gov. Deal of Georgia wanted to train urban inmates in his state's penal system in the field of agriculture and libs despised the idea.

"Peasants" are by definition farmers of the most deplorable kind so the European peasants had interest. Black people are really past picking cotton and other agricultural chores nowadays and find it offensive.

Thats a lot of garbage. What they wanted was the land they were promised. So what are you talking about?

 

[Polishprince]

Thats a lot of garbage. What they wanted was the land they were promised. So what are you talking about?

The land they were promised was from liberal politicians.

Crazy Bernie, the Bidens and Obamas ought to buy and distribute the rural land that their predecessors may have promised to the black people.

The taxpayers didn't promise a dam thing to the urban gangs.

 

[IM2]

The idea of getting black people interested in agricultural work has been panned by modern libs, you know.

Gov. Deal of Georgia wanted to train urban inmates in his state's penal system in the field of agriculture and libs despised the idea.

"Peasants" are by definition farmers of the most deplorable kind so the European peasants had interest. Black people are really past picking cotton and other agricultural chores nowadays and find it offensive.

Blacks have always farmed. Idiot.

 

[IM2]

The land they were promised was from liberal politicians.

Crazy Bernie, the Bidens and Obamas ought to buy and distribute the rural land that their predecessors may have promised to the black people.

The taxpayers didn't promise a dam thing to the urban gangs.

No urban gangs are part of this. Idiot. The Obamas descended from slaves dumb ass. You don't speak for taxpayers.

 

[IM2]

Do you know what century 1862 was?
Good God almighty.

That it was in the past shit don't flush and this is why:

The Homestead Acts passed in 1862, gave away 246 million acres of land. Research shows that 99.73 percent of that land went to whites, including white immigrants. 1.5 million white families were given free land or the equivalent of a minimum of $500,000 per family. Today 93 million whites still live on homestead land, which is at least 40 percent of the white population in America. That land has helped whites accumulate the wealth they have today.

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading;[31][32] by that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of western public lands. The only exception to this new policy was in Alaska, for which the law allowed homesteading until 1986.[31]

Donation Land Claim Act of 1850
Homestead Act of 1862
Southern Homestead Act of 1866
Timber Culture Act of 1873
Kinkaid Amendment of 1904
Forest Homestead Act of 1906
Enlarged Homestead Act of 1909
Stock-Raising Homestead Act of 1916
Subsistence Homesteads provisions under the New Deal – 1930
Homesteading requirements
In practice
End of homesteading

 

[TNHarley]

That it was in the past shit don't flush and this is why:

The Homestead Acts passed in 1862, gave away 246 million acres of land. Research shows that 99.73 percent of that land went to whites, including white immigrants. 1.5 million white families were given free land or the equivalent of a minimum of $500,000 per family. Today 93 million whites still live on homestead land, which is at least 40 percent of the white population in America. That land has helped whites accumulate the wealth they have today.

Legislation from 1862 isnt proof of systematic racism today, bullwinkle. Goddamn.

 

[Wyatt earp]

No urban gangs are part of this. Idiot. The Obamas descended from slaves dumb ass. You don't speak for taxpayers.

Hawaii had black slaves?


Who knew?

 

[IM2]

45,000 is a wee percentage of the black people in this country.

Young blacks are interested in urban life, rappin' and pimpin'. Not milking a fucking cow or plowing a field.

Most- not all mind you- consider the idea of tending to chickens and picking tobacco to be "racist".

White boy, you don't know what young blacks are interested in.

 

[IM2]

Legislation from 1862 isnt proof of systematic racism today, bullwinkle. Goddamn.

The legislation did not end in 1862 idiot.

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading; by that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of western public lands. The only exception to this new policy was in Alaska, for which the law allowed homesteading until 1986.

The last claim under this Act was made by Ken Deardorff for 80 acres (32 ha) of land on the Stony River in southwestern Alaska. He fulfilled all requirements of the homestead act in 1979 but did not receive his deed until May 1988. He is the last person to receive title to land claimed under the Homestead Acts.

Legislation from 1862 that nearly half of all white Americans still benefit from today is evidence of how the American system is built on racism.

 

[TNHarley]

The legislation did not end in 1862 idiot.

The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ended homesteading; by that time, federal government policy had shifted to retaining control of western public lands. The only exception to this new policy was in Alaska, for which the law allowed homesteading until 1986.

The last claim under this Act was made by Ken Deardorff for 80 acres (32 ha) of land on the Stony River in southwestern Alaska. He fulfilled all requirements of the homestead act in 1979 but did not receive his deed until May 1988. He is the last person to receive title to land claimed under the Homestead Acts.

Legislation from 1862 that nearly half of all white Americans still benefit from today is evidence of how the American system is built on racism.

Illiterate dumbass
The date is 7/27/21
Do you understand now?

 

[Likkmee]

"At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of Congress our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.​

The Homestead Acts passed in 1862, gave away 246 million acres of land. Research shows that 99.73 percent of that land went to whites, including white immigrants. 1.5 million white families were given free land or the equivalent of a minimum of $500,000 per family. Today 93 million whites still live on homestead land, which is at least 40 percent of the white population in America. That land has helped whites accumulate the wealth they have today.

The Homestead Acts began before the end of slavery. This alone should provide evidence of the limited benefit this act had for blacks in America. The Homestead Act provided that a person had to be a citizen to qualify and blacks were not given citizenship until 1866. The overturning of Field Order 15 by President Andrew Johnson also reduced the positive effect such land grants would have provided for blacks

"But not only did they give them land, "they built land grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms."

"Not only that, today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to
farm, and they are the very people telling the black man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with, and this is the reality."

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.​

For those who do not understand the reality of how the past extends into today, I present you with the Morrill Act of 1862. Early American society was based on agriculture. By the mid-1800s, the U.S. population was majority rural. So as Dr. King so eloquently described, the government saw the need to provide education and services to assist whites moving west to help them survive on the free land the government provided. Because of that, the United States Congress passed the Morrill Act of 1862, better known as the Land Grant Act. The act gave each state 30,000 acres of land per senator that was to be used to provide education in agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, or any other profession available during that time in America. They used the grants of land to build colleges, thus Land Grant colleges are one result of the Morrill Act.

Needless to say, blacks were not allowed to attend many Morrill Act institutions. To combat this, the U.S Congress came up with the Agricultural College Act of 1890, (26 Stat. 417, 7 U.S.C. § 321 et seq.) or easier remembered as the Morrill Act of 1890. Signed on August 30, 1890, the Second Morrill Act made it so that black Americans could be admitted into Land Grant Colleges. States having separate colleges for blacks and whites were required to create colleges to train black students in agriculture, mechanical arts, architecture, and other professions of the time just like whites. This law created some of the Americas legendary HBCU’S, but until desegregation became the law, black land grant colleges were not equally funded. These land grants established white economic advancement and as Dr. King said, they established an economic floor for the European immigrants that entered America. At the same time, blacks were freed from slavery, and that economic floor was ripped out from under them thanks to President Andrew Johnson.

Williams, T. (2000). The Homestead Act: A major asset-building policy in American history (CSD Working Paper No. 00-9). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development. The Homestead Act: A Major Asset-Building Policy in American History

Land-Grant Colleges and Universities

Learn about the partners who collaborate with NIFA to address critical issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and communities.

nifa.usda.gov

https://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/morrill.html

TOPN: Agricultural College Act of 1890

www.law.cornell.edu

"Change" is good !, Back of the bus to front of the line in only 60 years

 

[AZrailwhale]

Thats a lot of garbage. What they wanted was the land they were promised. So what are you talking about?

The US government never promised freed slaves anything. As I recall ONE general(W.T. Sherman) was responsible for the 40 acres and a mule comment. Also the mule was a LOAN, not a gift and the 40 acres was Confederate land, not western land. 40 acres of prairie isn't enough for a viable farm, Those prairie grants were in sections as I understand it, a section is 640 acres. The people accepting the grants also had to meet a minimal standard of farming equipment. You give an ex-slave one of those grants and without the capital to buy a bunch of equipment as well as food to survive until first harvest and he'd starve to death. If that had happened, you, IM2 and Paul would be accusing us of fomenting a black holocaust.