Why are there So Few Black Farmers in America? 

One of the MAJOR reasons I supported Sen Sanders was his eagerness and history to take on Big Ag and the pesticides industry, restore our water security and bring back the sustainable Family Farm, including those belonging to Black & indigenous peoples.

Absolutely an equity issue. Those white people in power don't want black or poor people to have any

Glad to see someone raising awareness on less popular issues.

BLM

"Your friend" wrote the crime bill that supports other points of the intersectionality of sytemic racism like we see in this video. Thank you very little for dropping out.

Heartbreaking :(

I voted for you Bernie.

Thank you. We need to learn the history of Black farmers. Keep up the wonderful work of sustainability for you and for future generations.

Bernie if you live another 8 years, my peers and I will be able to vote for you. stay healthy for us!

Ask Zimbabwe.

We also need to break up the big corporate owned farms. The pieces should be sold off to organic farmers.

Because farming is hard work.

Nicodemus Kansas. Only all black settlement west of the Mississippi River and still has a few black farmers and land owners.

40 acres and a mule should have happened for all previously enslaved. It would have made the present very different.

very good explanation about the remnants of racist foundations and systems in the US

Let's go #FARMERS#WORLDWIDE WE HAVE TO FIGHT AS ONE

Donate, vote, and sign petitions. If you really want to make America the leader of the free world once again, you'll fight for ending racism, and promoting anti-corruption. I'm somebody who thinks Teddy Roosevelt should come back as a zombie for a 3rd term, does that make me socialist? #voteprogressive

Show what blacks missed out on. I want to see the success of the other side where the programs lifted people. This is misery 💔

NOW DO GULLAH GEECHEE CULTURE IN THE SEA ISLANDS OF South Carolina and Georgia!!!

So how can I get some land to farm?

Most of todays farmers farms were handed down to them. If you are poor there is no farm in the will.

Didnt know there are still black farmers

We are making a come back...I'm one

Because farming is really hard work!!, they would have to earn thier dollars,.

My best guess is because they don't want tobwork a farm.

Tell the corporations to start giving back. They won’t. It’s always your neighbor who did you wrong. It’s definitely not poor farmers who are trying to monopolize agriculture. It’s big Farm(a). Just let Kamala run Monsanto and now everything “looks” great.

Because they were defeated and denationalized by the inquisitionists beginning in 1492.

This story is tragic. Not told in history as it happened in rural out of sight places. Thanks for this video Bernie and friends.

what song is this???

1:42 Austrian locomotive 378.78 now working for German Kuckucksbähnel museum railway. Couldn't find moving images of an American train? (Sorry for European railnerdery.) Racial segregation is of course totally unacceptable and it's beyond me how something so superficial as "race" (a concept with no scientific foundation) even plays a role in this day and age.

Ask Bill Gates, Bernie the Sellout.

Is Bernie Sanders still opposed to reparations for American descendants of slavery? If so, what’s the point of creating this video?

I am not a farmer. However, even I remember the family farms disappearing in mass in the 1980's, remember farm aid? Agribussiness has taken over and that is not going to change. My farmer relatives who have since sold or lease their land, stated to me that unless you have a minimum of 1,000 acres and run an efficient opperation you can not be competitive in the business, period. There is no place in the business for utopian fantasy, unless of course you have bushels of other peoples money to spend. As a long time former supporter of Mr. Sanders, a candidate who folded to easily when he could have made a real difference , I find this rather maudlin video disingenuous at best.

Hand back the @16million acres of land to those decendents widely but if not then hold the land in trust for ALL African Americans in those regions living there and paying taxes or who are children over the age of 18 yrs old who live in those regions. To be honest it all the land belongs to the native American Indians so no white or black person lawfully gained it unless they purchased it from a native American chief in the 15th century.. or prior to the formation of India reserves. I adopted the view that ALL land held by the US Federal or State Government is stollen land and since ALL private land was once owned by the above and then sold it is stollen goods, when all is said and done. So all land must be returned to Native Americans and held in trust for the identified nations that signed treaties with the US and are no known as reserves. The leaders of these reserves must be elected to be Trustees and be a part of the Treasury department of the Government of these reserves. From this great wealth transfer the trustee will have to lease back the land to the previous owners who were once freeholders. The existing owners will be liable for any and all mortgages or liens over the land and any sub-lease will fall under the new freeholder's of the land. When sub-leases end they will revert back to the ownership AND possession of the nations. When leases end they will revert back to the nations. When mortgages or liens on the land ends the nations will not have the land unless the leaseholder sells them the lease or the lease ends and is not renewed. If the lease is renewed, the existing freeholder must renew on open market terms and conditions with the reservation trustees who are the freeholder. In this way the nations hall regain their land on equitable terms which is far from how white founding fathers of America got it 😳😬😒😕 The current freeholders maybe Government or private citizen or body corporate or Trust or charity. After my suggested bill goes into law at the Federal level all these parties will all be leaseholder and the freehold is gifted back to the appropriate nations that would have historically occupied the land as far has can be accurately determined in an undisputed manner. If disputed by facts and not hear-say the land will not revert until the dispute is resolved my historical independent facts. A commission will be setup comprising of all the leading historians from the nations and from US accedemia and to setup a historical land survey which then creates a historically sudo-map of fixed occupation of lands that were culturally common hold land shared by nomadic native tribes. If those tribes still exists and are not part of a reservation then the gifted land will be made into a reservation for the Governance of the nation that must elect a leadership to take stewardship and manage and protect the reserve. Ps. This is how America fully address its history; the Afro-American slave and his decendents will have to wait in second place. I am a black man by the way...Texan.

Why did you stop running? I don't believe you ever had any intention of truly running for president.

The same reason there isn’t as many white farmers anymore. Industrial farming methods do not require as much labor as it once did. Or you could just say racism and score some brownie points. It’s amazing how many geriatric democrats discovered racism is still a problem after decades in office not caring about it.

So why sanders is not for reparations?. This video is proof why black Americans are owed reparations

What about those crack houses ? Arent those plantations as well?

Farming involves hard physical labor, long hours and a strong family unit to survive. The hard work aspect of it keeps lazy people like you out of it Bernie Sanders.

Probably racism