06/05/2020
This week we will be dedicating our feed to honoring and highlighting Black farmers making a difference in their communities. May they inspire all of us to have the courage to DO WHATEVER IT TAKES to change this reality.
While there are truly no words for the most recent or the centuries of heinous atrocities committed against our Black brothers and sisters over the last half millennium, as a farmer,, this single fact saddens and disheartens me as much as the horrific acts of violence disgust, shame, horrify and enrage me—to my very core. The world was far more progressive in 1900, for the small farmer, for the Black farmer. How can this be?!, we ask. Because we have allowed it to happen. Because we are all complicit in putting convenience and our own accrual of wealth first. Until we make very drastic changes in the way we live every aspect of our lives, the hidden masters, the great oppressors, will continue to have us at their feet, groveling, dependent on them to feed us. Except for they don’t nourish us. They destroy us. With systemic racism, with mass manipulation of our food, health, education and justice systems, with Industrial Agriculture, with our reckless consumption of endless goods made by slaves over seas, with the blood of the earth, shipped across the globe to us, with the blood of the earth, for our mere convenience, they/we are bringing about our societal demise, and soon, only I fear not until it gets far worse, they will once again claim to save us from the chaos, with their global agenda to control not only our society, but each and every one of our cells in our bodies, thoughts in our minds, and ultimately the choices we make, the actions we take. Societally if we wish to heal the diseases plaguing us, including racism and social injustice, if we want to free human society as a whole, we have to change. We have to change a lot. And we have to do it Now. Any longer will be too late. For the Human Race. For all Life on Earth. This is a pivotal time. We are either going to make it or break it. Do not be fooled. Think. Have Courage. Brace yourself and DO Whatever it Takes.