Hello Big Team Farm! Hope everyone had a chance to get out and enjoy Fools Spring last week, and now that we’re rested and rejuvenated, are ready to jump back into All the Work. Great American Farmers A horrific tragedy occurred this week, an attack on the Asian-American community perpetrated by a white terrorist. There is a long history in America of discrimination and violence against people of Asian decent and some of the worst of it was concentrated in the agricultural sector. In 1900, tens of thousands of people of Asian decent were working as tenant farmers or agricultural laborers in the Western United States in particular, and in many cases they were specifically responsible for introducing and maintaining valuable crops like stone fruits in areas that white farmers could not get them to grow. In fact, they were such efficient and successful farmers that that fact was often specifically sited, in public, as a key reason why their white neighbors wanted them gone.
"In other words, when someone with all the resources tells critics who have no resources to do the work that requires resources, we should not listen." <-- I stood up and shouted "fuck yeah!" at this
"In other words, when someone with all the resources tells critics who have no resources to do the work that requires resources, we should not listen." <-- I stood up and shouted "fuck yeah!" at this