The Worst Thing Trump Did on 7/21/25

There is a long history in this country of minority farmers being discriminated against to the point where they were driven out of the farming business.  After the Civil War, nationwide, it was common to prevent Black and minority farmers from being able to sell their products in white commercial or wholesale markets.  The racists, frustrated by the Black farmer's freedom from slavery specifically, vowed to never help the Black farmer.  When times came where there wasn't enough white farmer crops for the white masses, whites would refuse to pay the same rates for the Black farmers' crops, insisting they were inferior because they came from Black farmers.  Sometimes they would just raid Black farms and steal their crops/animals. 

Like I said, this wasn't a policy just limited to the former slave states. This anti-minority farmer policy became a nationwide policy, and it went a long way to limit the Black and minority farmers of today.  In the US, 38.5% of the population is either Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Native American, but only 4% of farms in the USA are owned by people of color. 

And make no mistake, there is A LOT of racism in the farming industry today, going out of its way to discourage and limit the opportunities for minority farmers.  It was so bad that the Farm Bill in 1990 installed a policy which specifically tried to help minority farmers who had been discriminated against.  

Not anymore. 

The Trump White House and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are specifically removing the term "Socially disadvantaged" from the law, basically making racism against minority farmers legal again, removing race and sex based considerations in the decision-making process for their USDA programs. They claim they are taking a race-neutral stance, but what they're really doing is intentionally ignoring the racism in the system, and saying minority farmers have always had the same opportunities and chances as white farmers, a laughable argument.

These changes in Ag, as well as other areas, have a designed purpose: to incubate racism by insisting no racism exists. The people complaining about the racism are the real problem, and until they learn to shut up and accept the racism, the victims of racism are the real racists.

A bigot's fever dream.