What Happened to All the Black Farmers?

What Happened to All the Black Farmers? | NBC Left Field

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5 жыл бұрын

Black farmers once made up 14 percent of America's farmers. Today, black farmers account for less than 2 percent. One of them, fourth-generation sugar cane farmer Wenceslaus 'June' Provost Jr., is fighting to maintain his family's farming legacy. June and his family were once part of the 1999 Pigford lawsuit, a massive class-action suit brought against the USDA alleging discriminatory practices. The case resulted in the largest settlement in U.S. government history and an admission of wrongdoing by the USDA. But June and his wife Angie say discrimination based on race still permeates the industry today, and allege continued discriminatory practices by their lender has pushed them out of farming and have cost them their home.
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@jamesking8303 5 жыл бұрын

As a Black countryman from Texas, I applaud your efforts. My family has lost 70+ Acreage to the banks and they turn around and sell it to Home Depot or Walmart...Black brother please dont get depressed. They will try to put us in the position of the slaves.

@EarthAngel504 4 жыл бұрын

Right on, and Love your name ach.

@josephinenabawa8923 3 жыл бұрын

Trust God. He rights the wrongs we all do to each other. Try forgiving and repenting.

@Child_of_Amun 5 жыл бұрын

My grandfather had his farm in Anderson, SC taken by imminent domain, there’s a highway through what used to be his land. He was the patriarch of the family, now all of his children my uncles and aunts have to live in the city. None of us ever needed welfare until we were forced from our land where we used to cultivate everything we needed. In my family farming is a lost legacy.

@blessedinthefield6200 5 жыл бұрын

It doesn't have to be. You can restart the legacy.

@mizzpoetrics 5 жыл бұрын

I agree, get back to your roots sister! Get some land, pick up where you left off.

@nanjemoyal-kursi3078 4 жыл бұрын

@@blessedinthefield6200 * Iam working on mine at 70.Iam not giving up.

@iahelcathartesaura3887 4 жыл бұрын

That happened to whites in my world too. But this pains me beyond words 😢😢😢

@jimdandy1297 4 жыл бұрын

Institutional racism within the government

@atos.nympha3451 4 жыл бұрын

It huge

@mzwisdom7504 4 жыл бұрын

I truly hope he gets paid. This happens on a regular.

@picachicaasmr260 5 жыл бұрын

"pull you self up by the bootstrap" they say and when you do that, you get sabotaged.

@dale85300 4 жыл бұрын

What's really sad is that there are Blacks finically able to help but won't cause of fear of Massa!!!!

@TheRTM 4 жыл бұрын

No, they cut the straps

@Wanderer25 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRTM then call you lazy for not wanting to play by their fucked up rules.

@TheOriginalC.H. 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Black Wall Street was an example of that. SMDH.

@kevinboone2178 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOriginalC.H. You realize there were many BWSs, yes? It is one reason why reparations are imperative.

@kfelix2934 5 жыл бұрын

This is why we need black own banks and black investors, and investing in black businesses and black farms.

@blessedinthefield6200 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a black latina market farmer in Ohio. I get a little support in the black community, but we need so much more. If you see a black farmer at a market, stop and buy something to support them.

@cincybest 5 жыл бұрын

@@blessedinthefield6200 Where in Ohio are you located I'm in Ohio?

@EnergyDivineBalance 5 жыл бұрын

We need active American national farms. Black isn't a lawful status. Hints the plaguing issue of status upon us as a people. We keep claiming a dead status.

@charlesjohnson7634 5 жыл бұрын

@@rickgrimes7334 I thought you was dead ... RICK ??!?

@bnj0828 5 жыл бұрын

We too busy buying GUCCI and BENZ and shit.

@CB-vj5fw 5 жыл бұрын

The key is get out of the position where you need a loan. We need to come together as a people Finance the black farmers until they get in a position where they don't need a loan.

@mogreen5630 5 жыл бұрын

I agree however, how do you force the sugar mill to buy???

@laurice8056 5 жыл бұрын

Carrie Banks-Wright + That’s a great idea. It’s time we SOS,...Save Our Selves! If we as a people could finance the Black farmers, and support them by any means necessary, maybe we can help them get back on their feet. It’s time to think outside the box.

@hammerhead5234 5 жыл бұрын

Sad part is even if WE did this THEY would still find a way to take/ steal it away from us. Look at BLACK WALL STREET. They bombed it.

@onajeasheber300 5 жыл бұрын

This should happen for what ever we want to do.Too many lives destroyed. Why should a Man or Woman, need to go to people that do not like or care for you. Insane...

@andamlakandfitret6561 5 жыл бұрын

Hi although it's TRUE not only to farmers but many more ...I mean b/n Hollywood and athletes only many more projects that can lift up this community could be done. If you can figure that out ...you are making history.

@kingdomscience6480 5 жыл бұрын

Am from Africa and these sort of stuff Makes me sad. My advise to Black farmers in America is to think about corporate farming in Africa. Plenty of Land, good weather and manpower. Moreover, you can easily self-fund and raise some good Capital by Exporting your produce. Taxation on Agricultural products is obviously less than manufactured goods. This really broke my heart.

@georgeboehringer5530 5 жыл бұрын

Black people don't want to farm

@willamcotton9419 4 жыл бұрын

So you think they should come to Africa to farm?

@TD-cu3tg 4 жыл бұрын

Really????

@virgovirgo4103 4 жыл бұрын

Good places in africa

@purplegirl8036 4 жыл бұрын

@@TD-cu3tg if you haven't looked into it you're crazy.

@akasingogeorge2930 5 жыл бұрын

Oh God am so touched plz come to Uganda we have plenty of land and start anew life I can help you on that come back home Brother

@elena-lc4uk 4 жыл бұрын

My brother

@ardellacfuiellsalimia7836 4 жыл бұрын

You go home and don’t come back. Your snake ass ancestors stole and messed up land. Selfishness and greed won’t let them allow growth for any one else. But that’s okay. You and no one else can live without Black People! Ha! Face the truth! Steal the land then have to get others to work it because just like your ancestors, you and your kind ain’t gonna work it without the Black Farmer showing you how.

@pamelagray6863 4 жыл бұрын

Go where they are killing white famers .

@robinalecia7554 4 жыл бұрын

@Michael Beasley You shouldn't have come on here with that nonsense now you just cursed yourself with their misfortune.

@stephanies9071 4 жыл бұрын

@Michael Beasley you can go home to hell too, (most of you are bound for that anyways). Your pasty inbred ass definitely won't come back.😂😂

@DaKingisDead 5 жыл бұрын

Black tobacco farmers in North Carolina faced these exact same discriminatory practices. My great grandparents owned a working farm, but that legacy was gone, shortly after their death. It's a methodical and calculated land grab to stifle any attempt of passing wealth from one generation to the next. This type of institutional racism is still functioning like a well-oiled machine to this day,

@xaomioppo9620 5 жыл бұрын

help yourself. get yourself up by the bootstraps. you are not entitled to anything. you need a loan? go for it.. if you qualify you will definitely get it. Also why don't you guys set up community banks and help yourselves out instead of buying rims and blowing it up on strip clubs and petty stuff.. Nobody helped the whites out. they once lived in nomadic/tribal communities in Europe until they studied, learned and innovated things that advanced them on their own. nowadays you don't need to invent much. you just need to replicate the success around you. you are not entitled to any special privileges.

@sike3228 5 жыл бұрын

Its not racism stop thinking everything that happen to you is racism

@jackofalltradez17 5 жыл бұрын

@@xaomioppo9620 there is a large difference between recieving no help and actively being stifled

@xaomioppo9620 5 жыл бұрын

@HB it's not tough guy talk. there is a thing called reality. go through my post and refer me to one statement that is wrong in it. enough with this victim mentality. it has gotten old and is not helping solve any problems. victim mentality is for lazy, drunk fools just looking for an easy way out. Europeans built themselves without handout. you can do same without always crying for help like a child in kinder if you have what we call dignity

@georgeboehringer5530 5 жыл бұрын

@@sike3228 they are looking for an excuse

@leonardcarter6656 5 жыл бұрын

I'm disgusted, I damn neared cried because of the systematic racism when black people stand on there own!!!!!!!!!!

@georgeboehringer5530 5 жыл бұрын

He is not black enough

@ernestjett225 5 жыл бұрын

He’s black by culture and bloodline

@georgeboehringer5530 5 жыл бұрын

@@ernestjett225 you are setting a low standard of ethnic hygiene for the Negro race

@marvange2498 5 жыл бұрын

Wow you got it bad bro there's black banks why don't he go there in southern L.A. . there are many black owned banks..hell what %percent of black rich people would loan him money lol but he going to blame whites gets real .

@marvange2498 5 жыл бұрын

@@ernestjett225 sure he is black man farming he got all that black culture lol

@Bayoubelle83 4 жыл бұрын

To see this man cry about his father’s legacy is heartbreaking. My grandpa was also a farmer in Louisiana and sold his cayenne pepper to Tabasco. I wondered why he stopped and this probably had a lot to do with it. May God bless them. The bigots will be served justice eventually, some way somehow. 😔

@deloreswillis9224 Жыл бұрын

Amen

@gregorywynn2450 4 жыл бұрын

I pray that this family remains steadfast and unmovable and have the strength to continue pushing forward and you will reap the harvest. Remember Job.

@ginaarmstrong1388 5 жыл бұрын

I wish our Black entertainers/ment could step in and help out these Black People!!

@ginaarmstrong1388 5 жыл бұрын

Not all!

@NYCttocs6973 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

@DSNCB919 5 жыл бұрын

Nation of Islam owns farm land

@EnergyDivineBalance 5 жыл бұрын

@@DSNCB919 no they don't. There is land the organization sharecroppers. That is not ownership. Outside of Elijah Poole Bey... aka Elijah Mohammed none of their members are in their proper person. All of them are wards of the state. Wards don't nor can not own anything. For the record.

@DSNCB919 5 жыл бұрын

@@EnergyDivineBalance first I replied to wrong thing but my correct reply is yes they do dont try it

@KasandraWilliams 5 жыл бұрын

I am so disgusted and outraged by what’s happening to this man and all other black farmers. We need more people to get behind this issue.

@xaomioppo9620 5 жыл бұрын

@Travel 4k help yourself. get yourself up by the bootstraps. you are not entitled to anything. you need a loan? go for it.. if you qualify you will definitely get it. Also why don't you guys set up community banks and help yourselves out instead of buying rims and blowing it up on strip clubs and petty stuff.. Nobody helped the whites out. they once lived in nomadic/tribal communities in Europe until they learned and innovated things that advanced them on their own. nowadays you don't need to invent much. you just need to replicate the success around you. you are not entitled to any special privileges.

@piehamcake1 5 жыл бұрын

@@xaomioppo9620 you sound like an idiot

@blessedinthefield6200 5 жыл бұрын

Here's one thing you can do. If you see a black farmer on the side of the road selling their produce. Stop and buy something to support them. I am a black latina market farmer in Ohio. Many times when we set up in black communities, we get a little support, but many more (black) people don't bother stopping to supporting us. I guess it's just easier for them to go to Walmart for their produce.

@xaomioppo9620 5 жыл бұрын

@@piehamcake1 truth hurts. instead of rebutting any of the points made you quickly resort to name calling. not surprised, it's quite the normal from losers

@xaomioppo9620 5 жыл бұрын

@@blessedinthefield6200 and yet they are the first to come on social media and shout for shouting sake. actions speak louder than words.. good point

@vgslife9640 4 жыл бұрын

may GOD bless my fellow black men and women to blessed ten times more farm land and wealth. amen

@lovingatlanta 5 жыл бұрын

😔These people should not be losing their farm or home. This is wrong n do many levels. How can we...the people, the community..,.get behind the black farmers and support them? How can we create a cooperative collectively so we the people, the community owns the land, farming business and profits? I don’t know what I’m talking about but I know this will make sense to somebody. 😔

@geoffreymwangi6627 4 жыл бұрын

A black man should own a land & be a banker too.

@rosemariestanley9436 5 жыл бұрын

institutionalized discrimination/racism... just sad. Please, NBC, keep reporting about these topics! The more people see your documentaries, more will hopefully become highly aware and stand up for what is right which is "equal rights and opportunities for everybody"!!! I hope those up there on their high horses will be brought to fall and suffer harshly!!!

@StayTunedNBC 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching, Rosemarie!

@siobahneire 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, journalism is what exposes the problem and thus allows a solution. Thank you NBC.

@StayTunedNBC 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, Tom!

@xaomioppo9620 5 жыл бұрын

help yourself. get yourself up by the bootstraps. you are not entitled to anything. you need a loan? go for it.. if you qualify you will definitely get it. Also why don't you guys set up community banks and help yourselves out instead of buying rims and blowing it up on strip clubs and petty stuff.. Nobody helped the whites out. they once lived in nomadic/tribal communities in Europe until they learned and innovated things that advanced them on their own. nowadays you don't need to invent much. you just need to replicate the success around you. you are not entitled to any special privileges.

@lovoniaparks 5 жыл бұрын

I'm disgusted and NOT surprised. This has always happened to black families. Hell, the video alone should have more views but it doesn't. It's because any time you mention any black hardship or conflict, no one watches. Why hasn't there been more outreach to help them?! We all know why and as a country, we are disgusting and powered by hate.

@juanshaftpatel7488 5 жыл бұрын

thats how capitalism works.. not everyone succeeds

@lovoniaparks 5 жыл бұрын

Juan Shaft Patel You missed the point. You missed the whole video, apparently. Just wanting to comment for a reaction? You got it then.

@mr.goodwinmbamacc4494 5 жыл бұрын

@@juanshaftpatel7488 Capitalism, and retaliation is sometimes part of the failure equation.

@diangelo0714 5 жыл бұрын

@Travel 4k Why are you commenting on this video? Please explain!

@sandrareed2823 5 жыл бұрын

I agree with your statement. Let's start a Go Fund Me account for business people like this black family. Victory For Black Farmers!! Peace And Love On Earth. Sandra California

@michelehallock2251 4 жыл бұрын

Reparations for native blacks ❤❤❤❤

@carabellofamily4782 5 жыл бұрын

This video needs to go viral period!

@miyokomotoyoki9638 4 жыл бұрын

Let's make it go viral! We have the power to do so. What do you say?

@marchangel7462 4 жыл бұрын

@Amani Rinas tyler perry?

@MatthewThompsonAllen 5 жыл бұрын

This honestly makes me sick to my stomach. Fight as long as you can, June. I'm sure your father would be proud of you, seeing you work hard for what you love and he helped build.

@georgeboehringer5530 5 жыл бұрын

He is still in a cycle of debt he should have gone to the black Banks and Credit Unions for financing

@meisheaolivier76 5 жыл бұрын

@@georgeboehringer5530 There are no local black owned banks and credit unions. We are in a small town. There are not even many white owned banks. So, he has no choice.

@Kattywampus 5 жыл бұрын

This is all true. My dad was a cowboy and a farmer in his younger days. Once we were born, he tried so hard to buy a farm for us. We got run out of so many towns... My dad eventually died to agent orange-related cancer (thanks again, US government) when we were kids. Now I work in a callcenter just trying to scrape up the funds to get some crappy lot somewhere. I wanna try it again. For him and our future..

@Robotron2009 5 жыл бұрын

May you find success in your endeavours. 🌹

@Shineynsparkles 5 жыл бұрын

STEM and Management But and sell in foreign lands

@onajeasheber300 5 жыл бұрын

This is war on our people. The Black upper classes are letting these things happen to good people as your family. I hope you win your battle...Stay Strong...

@andamlakandfitret6561 5 жыл бұрын

Smart man

@TerryJulianLive 5 жыл бұрын

Have you thought about farming in Africa? They could really use black farmers.

@xaviermccloud4586 5 жыл бұрын

WHEN WHITE PEOPLE TRY TO SAY THIS TYPE OF DISCRIMINATION DOESN'T HAPPEN LINK THIS VIDEO AND DON'T RESPOND ANYMORE!

@rickyray2794 4 жыл бұрын

this type of discrimination doesn't happen, cry moar

@karenmassey8354 4 жыл бұрын

^ Typical white gaslighting.

@MsLhuntMartinez79 5 жыл бұрын

My heart breaks for them💔. My family is from New Iberia, LA.

@marievanderpool1613 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Baton Rouge

@StCloud-ns7vt 5 жыл бұрын

What happened to black farmers? The GI Bill ,The Homestead Act, The New Deal, Jim Crow and Red Lining.

@EnergyDivineBalance 5 жыл бұрын

First was de-nationalization of the people. Then it was to easy to push policy.

@erichuff3135 5 жыл бұрын

The GI Bill? Going to college for free ruined black farming?

@octaviahicks-braye9859 5 ай бұрын

Carpet-begging, transplanting, and immigration can negatively affect descendants of American slaves as well.

@lafregaste 5 жыл бұрын

I hope they don't give up, the harder you're pushed the harder you have to push back....

@margiechambers8975 5 жыл бұрын

You were being to sucessful so they sabatoge you ?

@margiechambers8975 5 жыл бұрын

Whites cut your long money

@margiechambers8975 5 жыл бұрын

Whats new

@martinflood7984 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy stuff. As a part time farmer in Ireland I really feel for June and Angie. Seems like such genuine hard working people.

@Mroberts818 5 жыл бұрын

This literally hurts my heart.

@OthelloMarcAnderson 5 жыл бұрын

Jim Crow never seems to die in America!

@XactlyCeSe1 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry. This makes me so angry

@locks4 4 жыл бұрын

@@rickgrimes7334 dude was that neccessary??

@proveallthingskjv2570 5 жыл бұрын

Wheres all the Nba players at ?? Stand up for your people

@DivorceDecreed 5 жыл бұрын

Share this article on Twitter, IG, and FB and tag the hell out of their asses.

@proveallthingskjv2570 5 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellfolkes7854 black people gotta stand up for your own...see america is not a white and black country ..but a mixture of colors.. but blacks always be crying about themselves ..but im saying rich black leaders can cut a check and invest in this dude and others , mexicans too

@proveallthingskjv2570 5 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellfolkes7854 shut up fool...sorry but you sound like a fool...now get on social media and get it out there that rich blacks should cut the check...

@miltonhenderson2588 4 жыл бұрын

Testify!!!

@bandit4true 4 жыл бұрын

@Bev Nedd you are absolutely right

@toreycarlyle9953 4 жыл бұрын

This is heartbreaking and under discussed. Thanks for all involved in making and sharing this.

@thexvault 5 жыл бұрын

Im starting a farm, my grandfather was a yam farmer in nigeria, i feel it in my blood.

@blessedinthefield6200 5 жыл бұрын

You can do it!

@cloudman1006 5 жыл бұрын

Urban farming is the way to go nowadays this same system Creates food deserts and obesity

@ladydede88 5 жыл бұрын

I’m going to too I’ve had it on my mind for the last couple years but herbs and Tobacco

@ZoomILike2flyAway 5 жыл бұрын

Do they have a GoFundMe page set up? They need the black communities help at the least of any and all who are willing to help. I don't want to see them lose it all...their home...their land. Their legacy.. they can teach so much to new black farmers.

@Thread_By_Jeannie 5 жыл бұрын

Very sad.

@Dominini 5 жыл бұрын

They definitely need our help but they deserve answers and redress from the government. Period.

@FaithandNova 5 жыл бұрын

@@ebonygentleman79 they should have well past the amount they need. The word needs to get out like asap.

@tonyjulius708 5 жыл бұрын

@@FaithandNova they don't, they still need about 6 grand.

@marvange2498 5 жыл бұрын

@@ebonygentleman79 how many people up here talking that bullshit about raceist banks are giving this guy money. Lol I say but you're money were you're mouth is

@stevenredclay6506 4 жыл бұрын

My wife’s co-worker son just finished school at Texas A&M and he received a $ 200,000 loan to farm. He is just 24 years old and white. He doesn’t even own the land, he will be renting it to farm on.

@natah4426 3 жыл бұрын

Shut! Up! Crazy. Here we are owning our land and can't get anything without stipulations or just nothing at all!!!

@darrylrichardson1997 5 жыл бұрын

His wife is beautiful bro 💪🏿and keep pushing hard and stay positive

@justbreathe8835 5 жыл бұрын

Your father would be proud of you, stay strong family.

@papi_sativa 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment and your name.

@tommyjackson9404 5 жыл бұрын

Nothing they do surprise's me! They do these kind's of things, and then ask why we can't prosper land get ahead...

@ivandunn1334 4 жыл бұрын

Tommy Jackson that was their plan all along

@lionelmoore9125 4 жыл бұрын

We have black millionaires no body reached out to help him.

@Wanderer25 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. No investment into black communities. But they're out there spending on companies that don't respect black lives

@MJ-hg1mk 4 жыл бұрын

Wtf r talking about? How do u know?

@ramonabreu5710 4 жыл бұрын

Where is j- c beyonce, oprah, and all sport people that are millionaires, all the actor and all the famous people in the black community, where is The unity It make me mad to see this man that want to continue working and the White banks is saying 👎🏽 no, no you black, is humiliating and sick, black famous people where are you, your brothers need you. Come and laid a hand and make some money in the process.

@lionelmoore9125 4 жыл бұрын

I hope the next video someone helps Him keep his farm.

@vanessagalbreath663 4 жыл бұрын

Those Black millionaires out buying luxurious cars clothes and women.

@KingKong-xt9fk 5 жыл бұрын

We ain't going to grow until we learn to love each other

@teresalewis4430 5 жыл бұрын

Pray!! Don't leave your profession. They want you to give up, you stay and fight!!!

@linzierogers6227 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent advice.

@zaimatg8559 5 жыл бұрын

teresa lewis at least don't leave. there is many other things u can do .

@marsallefrancisco4851 5 жыл бұрын

Praying will not help! Stop giving delusional advice.

@LUX_8 5 жыл бұрын

@@jzk2020 Was all that even necessary?

@lynnb9812 5 жыл бұрын

@Travel 4k Please stop trolling. It's irrelevant.

@onajeasheber300 5 жыл бұрын

Where wasthe NAACP? Where was the Black upper classes? What a SHAME!

@JesseLD3 5 жыл бұрын

Where you at?

@onajeasheber300 5 жыл бұрын

@@JesseLD3 Harlem Ny

@loveishere8434 5 жыл бұрын

Naacp is selling madame cj walker's mansion...they aint shit!

@Proverbs31962 4 жыл бұрын

Onaje Asheber the NAACP is a joke

@ALIBABA71168 4 жыл бұрын

When this brother start Crying on his father grave I just couldn’t hold my eyes from tears .. really is Very hard for real person to lose his inheritance special a land

@vanessagalbreath663 4 жыл бұрын

Tears flowed, makes me thinks what will become of US

@awhite7596 3 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely heartbreaking, enraging, and fundamentally disturbing that human beings still treat human beings this way. Unconscionable. Unacceptable.

@kiiesmira 5 жыл бұрын

Glad we have activists informing us all about the need and how to reconnect with land..

@Macadamienutz 5 жыл бұрын

Stay strong, and please look at farming marijuana, they already trying to lock us out that crop too

@StCloud-ns7vt 5 жыл бұрын

after imprisoning some of us FOR LIFE for selling it.

@mogreen5630 5 жыл бұрын

Too late. John Salley barely got in.

@Dominini 5 жыл бұрын

TRYING?? How about they succeeded already!! Smfh

@craigwashington4954 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they're making it difficult to get in that market, but it's not impossible.

@bajankurt 5 жыл бұрын

Macadamienutz you’re right! It maybe already too late for Black farmers and small Black Greenhouse growers to get into Marijuana trade. They’re purposefully keeping the wraps on nationally growing it. By the time they finally allow it nationwide Black people applying for licensing and loans, it’ll be oops! Sorry guys nothing left for you! Watch and see. They maybe one or two medium to large Black growers but they’ll be the token ones! Book it!!!

@bajankurt 5 жыл бұрын

@NBC Left Field thank you for posting this. 🙏🏾

@lordluvsme9378 5 жыл бұрын

You have nothing to be ashamed of Sir! Young black men need to listen to your story. I wish that didn't happen to you! I pray for the return of the black farmers!!!

@blessedinthefield6200 5 жыл бұрын

And please, if you see one on the side of the road selling their produce, stop and support them by buying something and saying an encouraging word.

@lordluvsme9378 5 жыл бұрын

@@blessedinthefield6200 Yes sir

@meisheaolivier76 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you all for your support! I am a close family member❤

@lordluvsme9378 5 жыл бұрын

@@meisheaolivier76 I pray that his legacy continues and grows!

@hueyhulk954 5 жыл бұрын

That's for a example of systemic discrimination and racism

@georgeboehringer5530 5 жыл бұрын

Excuse

@bajankurt 5 жыл бұрын

Huey Hulk that’s how WS rolls. It’s global!

@ernestjett225 5 жыл бұрын

George Boehringer lol your childish

@arroyhondo 5 жыл бұрын

another faux victim

@rickgrimes7334 5 жыл бұрын

Just go back🛬🛫🛬🛫🌍🦍

@therealterry8 5 жыл бұрын

This has happened to so many ADOS families, I hope they keep fighting for their farm!

@yocrazey9781 3 жыл бұрын

They basically robbed this man with paper work. This is sad and depressing.

@proveallthingskjv2570 5 жыл бұрын

Flod maywheather cut the check ?

@elitecleanrestoration1219 4 жыл бұрын

prove all things kjv Floyd, so busy worrying about self and accumulating more material things.

@jawallin8734 4 жыл бұрын

@@bossdogg4767 what happened to GRs water? Do you even know where he's from?

@hammerhead5234 5 жыл бұрын

Same plays, same playbook, same players and from the SAME COACHES. SAD. On stolen land that they took from someone else ???

@DawnOfTheDead991 5 жыл бұрын

if the land was stolen, then why do you want to be accessories to the crime?

@leroyjordan5825 5 жыл бұрын

@@DawnOfTheDead991 why do Indians have casinos? why is water wet?

@lilyo8779 5 жыл бұрын

@@DawnOfTheDead991 We dont your ancestors litterally stole my ancestors and MADE them stay here for 400 years and work lol

@sike3228 5 жыл бұрын

You know that every land is stolen right they claim this land they fought and they won get over it and stop crying over it

@sike3228 5 жыл бұрын

@@leroyjordan5825 water isnt wet

@gokuvegeta3163 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry you're going through this, I pray you can overcome this. I never knew this so thanks for enlightening. Faith knows no disappointment.

@benmurawski 3 жыл бұрын

VERY nice job with making this video, NBC Left Field! THIS video is AWSOME because it just does a SUPER PERFECTELY GREAT JOB! Keep up the great work, my bro!

@imfloridano5448 5 жыл бұрын

Im glad this was put on my home page, this same story happened to my great great grandfather loss of their farm lands to these very same practices. This has been goin on for years

@followerOfJesus723 5 жыл бұрын

Where is Kamala Harris, Barak Obama, Jay Z, Oprah, Angela Rye and the rest of the sellout Black establishment now??

@andamlakandfitret6561 5 жыл бұрын

hi Joseph, I share the poster at theTop, simply the plat form they hold is precious. Not limited to black issues but giving the the community issues since they were support along the way and came out of that community they have reposiblity more than you and me. Should we all do something? Yes awareness is part of it.

@Dominini 5 жыл бұрын

When you decide to use your "blackness" as a platform, you owe the Black community something in return. They have much bigger platforms than this lady... yes, where are they?? You want to announce your presidency at a HBCU on MLK day? You want to talk black issues constantly? You want to rally the Black troops to vote for who you choose? So yeah, where the hell are all of those people who used blackness to get ahead?? They should be speaking about this to raise awareness as well. People are constantly talking about accountability within the Black community. We should hold poor black people accountable but not the people with the resources and means to actual evoke change (wheb they got those resources because the Black commuunity supported them??)?

@selamselam266 5 жыл бұрын

@Al Person u read my mind 👏

@ABDiFTA 5 жыл бұрын

This isn't about no dam celebrities, this is about the discriminatory practices of the US government.

@luckytumi8957 5 жыл бұрын

They send they're money to Africa

@My.Lifes.Journey 5 жыл бұрын

"Challenging your Jim Crow mindset." I love her! Keep pushing until you win! Never give up!

@truefriend1128 4 жыл бұрын

This is so wrong on so many levels my prayers are with you stay strong in your fight I know the feeling all to well.

@markellwilliams3594 3 жыл бұрын

This video was very emotional. I’m from Lafayette Louisiana and I’m so sorry June is going through this. It’s just sad how we’re not equal. Have a blessed day y’all and my prayers are with you.

@DetroitGoldie 5 жыл бұрын

I really like this new channel. Very informative. I’m learning things I have never even thought about. Thanks for making us aware! After watching this, I am mad af. This guy has worked his entire life! No one has or had the right to do things differently because he is African American. Why does race continue to be a problem in this country? People are people. No one should ever be treated differently because of race. I’m sick of this shit.

@StayTunedNBC 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being here, Jennifer! Hope you decide to stick around and subscribe, we publish new reports every week!

@DetroitGoldie 5 жыл бұрын

I’m subscribed and sticking around.

@xaomioppo9620 5 жыл бұрын

@@StayTunedNBC help yourself. get yourself up by the bootstraps. you are not entitled to anything. you need a loan? go for it.. if you qualify you will definitely get it. Also why don't you guys set up community banks and help yourselves out instead of buying rims and blowing it up on strip clubs and petty stuff.. Nobody helped the whites out. they once lived in nomadic/tribal communities in Europe until they learned and innovated things that advanced them on their own. nowadays you don't need to invent much. you just need to replicate the success around you. you are not entitled to any special privileges. This is farming. if you can't innovate or keep up with the sciences (appropriate crops, soil/seeds improvement, suited farm machines) you will lag. don't blame anything on skin color. Enough of this victim mentality

@locks4 4 жыл бұрын

@@xaomioppo9620 ok troll

@locks4 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, whats your gripe??

@wwsuwannee7993 5 жыл бұрын

What is happening, is happening to all farmers. Big Corps. are squeezing them to death. 14% is not much, so it don't take much squeezing to be extinct. Not to mention the unspoken barriers of racial prejudice so prevalent in this country.

@clayfurious4765 5 жыл бұрын

I just want to know is there anyway that i can help support these Black farmers?

@passivewaysexplore57 5 жыл бұрын

Right we could do a cryptocurreny coin to get these farmers money they need. And get then international trade deals.We have to be their loan I dont have much but O am willing yo support....

@passivewaysexplore57 5 жыл бұрын

Better yet Iam starting Black Wall Street Blockchain...one name one goal...support one feed one....

@ubreyn 5 жыл бұрын

Wow. I’ve watched the tv series Queen Sugar and to see this - REAL ppl going through this -it is so disheartening.

@barbaragarden5152 5 жыл бұрын

Yet most if not all of the food we eat comes from foreign countries...check the stickers on your fruit n veggies...

@Chestnut_Street_Consulting_LLC 5 жыл бұрын

Would you be able to provide us with Mr. Provost's contact information or his attorney's contact information?

@michelleharris8951 4 жыл бұрын

the struggle is still very real on every level

@ameliawhite3632 5 жыл бұрын

This is such a tragic and all too common story of black Farmers in America. I'm an aspiring young black Farmer in Eastern Missouri and this doesn't dishearten me, it gives fuel to my passion to farm and have something to pass on to my children and grandchildren children in spite of the adversity.

@navado75 5 жыл бұрын

Makes no sense to me. This is a perpetual debt cycle regardless of the discrimination. At what point do you pay off the property and stop borrowing.

@sharmon1911 5 жыл бұрын

Most people never pay off a mortgage, this nation is built on credit. Farmer life blood is credit, no credit no farm. Its not like a house

@meisheaolivier76 5 жыл бұрын

@@sharmon1911 Exactly! Thank you! People who don't farm or have farming families don't understand this. But, that's how it goes. Thanks for your support, from the Provost's❤

@geauxel 5 жыл бұрын

We as "melaninate" people have to find self love in order to come together as a group of people, trust each other to pool our financial resources together, build our own financial centers and in this case, our own cane manufacturers. I want to support these farmers, not just my words, but with action. However, like some many people who desire to help, we lack the know-how, the $,$$$,$$$ to act. But this I vow, I want to indeed learn! Anyone know how to get a list of Black Farmers in Louisiana?

@gracetamara4297 4 жыл бұрын

Good idea...though your home is always the best place...come back to Africa...let's build Africa together...Africa is the richest continent in the world.

@talibbey3158 5 жыл бұрын

thank you my brother you fight on they take everything that is of us wiping my tears

@michaelkheop1433 5 жыл бұрын

Don’t give up June! When God closes a door, he opens up a window. Keep your head up Farmer. You are needed. Be blessed. You have skills. Don’t give up Brother. Pray, Pray, and Pray. God is with the righteous. Have faith, and keep the vision of 1000’s Of acres of Sugar cane growing on your new and improved farm. God has acres waiting for you to farm. You lost a farm, you will get another, and it will be better. I pray God blesses you and your wife; with a massive bounty and a mountain of sugar cane! When a husband and wife pray together, they can overcome anything, with the power of God behind them, in front of them, beneath them, and around them. You and your wife will be victorious!

@geobely 5 жыл бұрын

Wow there true colors really show eventually stay strong and keep your head up

@keithclark5569 5 жыл бұрын

Black owned banks, Liberty Bank in New Orleans is the closest one to them

@dhare07 5 жыл бұрын

I just shared this hoping to get awareness out there.

@TheGospelQuartetParadise 5 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Fresno, CA in the 50s. My best friend's dad had a farm in West Fresno. To this day, the farm is still in operation.. It is currently run by my best friend's [he passed in 2015] two brothers. In addition, I have a cousin who farms in the Fresno area as well. I learned how to milk cows on a farm.

@RichbergEnt 5 жыл бұрын

Wow!!! Never even thought about this view point...but i do come from a history of farmers. My father and his siblings grew up farmimg as kids and teens, but went on to do other things for their own professions. So i never learned how to farm naturally...but grandma and grandpas house is def in the middle of all the farmland they use to tend.

@josephjackson5330 5 жыл бұрын

So very upsetting "be rough like a lion & swift like a peacock , keep up the fight. Regards from uk

@cricketcricket9749 5 жыл бұрын

OMG! I'm white and I had no idea this was happening in the farming communities. Absolutely shameful! Hang tough June, we'll pray for you and your family....please keep your head up and keep trying. Please don't give up, we need farmers to farm....ALL farmers.

@Shayechique 4 жыл бұрын

Keep fighting. My grandparents were farmers in South Carolina. They faced similar discrimination in there time.

@joekalisi95 5 жыл бұрын

Same thing happened with my father he was a Soybeans and Wheat former...!! It was hard to get loans... Supplies to work with overpriced...

@Mechaghostman2 5 жыл бұрын

But but, the white farmers in South Africa! Yea, let's talk about some crappy 2nd world country to divert attention away from problems here in our country! But, but, Zimbabwe! But, but...

@luxenvan 5 жыл бұрын

America is a shitty country run by backwards minded people....the ordinary people are beautiful as always...but looking from outside..America has a prbolem..And i believe it will eventually self distract....

@Jabooty_Williams 5 жыл бұрын

Yea forget the white farmers that are literally being murdered off their land. What is happening in south Africa is a literal extermination.

@Jabooty_Williams 5 жыл бұрын

@@Mechaghostman2 far worse? Honestly what is worse than being held hostage tortured and eventually murdered? Yes I understand people in Africa have it rough and dont get alot to eat, but isnt extermination of the people who provide food the exact opposite of what they should be doing?

@Mechaghostman2 5 жыл бұрын

@@Jabooty_Williams Not really caring about what's happening to the farmers in South Africa isn't really an endorsement of what's happening to them, y'know. It's just that this kind of shit is always happening in 2nd and 3rd world countries, in places the least likely to affect me. All throughout the 20th century they were killing farmers in an effort to collectivize farms. Now a few countries in Africa are doing it *in the name of* racial justice. These are impoverished countries. That kind of shit just happens there. I'm more interested in what happens in my country, where I have the ability to affect political change, and where the politics of said country can have a direct affect on me.

@Jabooty_Williams 5 жыл бұрын

@@Mechaghostman2 if you want to help these farmers in America buy their crops. Not only that vote for pro capitalists. Not just Republicans but capitalism in general no matter if they are Republican Democrat or centrist. Capitalism supports private farmers like these black families. Socialism just takes the farms under government control and profits off of it. Look at any socialist country. All farms in these countries are government ran and maintained. They snuff out any private farmers by over taxing grain and seeds. You also must remember farming is a very difficult profession. My grandparents lost their farm and they are white here in America. I dont see anyone trying to help them out.

@K42023 5 жыл бұрын

Good to see you and your partner support each other through this. You are rich.

@hemeheru6219 5 жыл бұрын

Wow so this is where the tv series QUEEN SUGAR comes from.....glade to see u guys fighting back...

@jusshamma2957 5 жыл бұрын

This broke my heart man 💔💔💔💔

@proveallthingskjv2570 5 жыл бұрын

Dave chappel where you at ..cut the check

@sharmon1911 5 жыл бұрын

Stop it...your trolling

@sharlallewis-hollansyde9807 5 жыл бұрын

I stand with you in prayers . No weapon formed as you still prosper . may God lace his hands around your and the land that your ancestors fought for and died for May God walk with you through this journey. Like Bob Marley says don't give up the fight all blacks need to unite God got you man the struggle is definitely real

@mrdavis717 5 жыл бұрын

It so ironic because the local sheriff was in the news and coincidentally the sugarcane committee must be on his side too

@meisheaolivier76 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Stay woke! You obviously saw Sugartown on television🙌🏽 The Provost's are my family and we appreciate your support and interest❤

@kingpeassant846 5 жыл бұрын

Never done crop city boy so sorry man I'm a black man and I'm saying I'm so sorry that you're going through that wow live and learn you are my brother way on the other side of the land and it hurts me and this is 2014 unbelievable.

@SDulai 5 жыл бұрын

Yes!! I've been waiting for this one, this makes me so happy. Congrats guys!

@StayTunedNBC 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Shaminder!

@lovingatlanta 5 жыл бұрын

👍Wow! This is very informative and eye opening. Thank you. 💞

@9mccloud 2 жыл бұрын

More and more eyes are being opened because of 💪🏾 people like you. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏿💕🙏🏿🙌🏾

@LilBit2MUCH88 4 жыл бұрын

This makes me PISSED so angry an sad all in ONE.... how can they destroy a family history.... They never wanna see us WIN !!! Lost they home an farm just fuckn sick... exactly like Queen Sugar😩😩🙏🏽🙏🏽

@rogerjames4384 4 жыл бұрын

America the great discriminator across the board in every aspect. Wow

@5annent 4 жыл бұрын

I'm a black northener) as our ancestors were Slaves &made to work farms for Free) ~500yrs!) Creating the richest nation in the World to this day!) Being northern black) I like Food) but Farming is very Hard) I tried growing my own food) whites must want to control Food too) now I see what Elaja Muhmmad was talking about controlling your Food & Owning Farms!) Our Ancestor George Washington Carver) probably the greatest agricultural Food Scientist) Tustege Institute) I'm honored to see black youth, into Food production) the most essential thing on Earth) there's no Life)

@mrhands1264 Жыл бұрын

Is there an update?? I pray they were able to keep their farm!!! I pray

@ntandosekay 4 жыл бұрын

One of the saddest stories I have ever heard 😥

@mrwodabe 5 жыл бұрын

#pdiddy #JayZ #Blackpeople INVEST IN FARMERS, it's food.

@atos.nympha3451 4 жыл бұрын

We too blind to see. Go read my comment

@MikeM-co6dm 5 жыл бұрын

Where can one get in touch with the farmers?

@chadjomokenyatta 5 жыл бұрын

I talked to a white farmer the other day and when I mentioned subsidies regulating farmers from growing he said, "that was more of a thing of the past." Not if your black! Peace and Blessings to my black farmers. I read about the lawsuit against Agribusiness and they practices of discrimination on black farmers in 2008. Where is the settlement that was won!?