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National Black farmers group says supporting GOP ticket "off the table" after JD Vance's attack (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said a lot of wild things 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 has distributed nearly $2 billion to mostly Black farmers who experienced discrimination as “disgraceful,” suggesting that it is racist against white people.

And now, the head of the largest group of Black farmers across the country is condemning Vance’s assertions.

“He owes us an apology,” John Boyd, Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told me. The remarks, Boyd added, were “disgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful to the nation’s Black farmers, the oldest occupation in history for Black people.”

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you don't understand that an article written on Friday, which refers to an event on "Sunday" without any additional qualifiers, is always going to be referring to the most recent Sunday and not the future... Then I don't know what to tell you, this isn't rocket science.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought they may have meant Friday. Or any of the other five days since. Y’know, a Sunday barnstorm of Meet the Twaddle is customary, but - what, do they tape it a day ahead? Why would they write an article so late about it?

You just normally see an article about a Sunday press appearance earlier than Saturday. And for whatever reason, probably in large part because I make efforts to avoid that 1950’s excruciatingly overwrought political theatre brought to us by the makers of Parliament cigarettes, I didn’t see anything else about his predictably awful interviews.

Sorry to bother you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You just normally see an article about a Sunday press appearance earlier than Saturday.

Holy shit dude. For the last time, the article is about the founder of the National Black Farmer Association's comments regarding what JD Vance said. That's why it was written on Friday. Vance's comments were from Sunday. Then the NBFA's founder spoke out about it days later. I literally cannot dumb this down for you any more than I already have.