Had to get 3/4 through the article to find the tl;dr
>modern day tactics used to set black farmers up to fail – such as the ones on display in the Pigford case – are the residue of Jim Crow.
Granted that anyone familiar with US history could have guessed as much. Looking back it's obvious that the federal government shouldn't have stopped reconstruction until blacks were on comparable economic footing to whites. Leaving them as an underclass dependent on the higher classes (whites) for the ability to make a living gave rise to Jim Crow and enabled the institutional racism that has perpetuated to this day.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 15.2 ms ] thread>modern day tactics used to set black farmers up to fail – such as the ones on display in the Pigford case – are the residue of Jim Crow.
Granted that anyone familiar with US history could have guessed as much. Looking back it's obvious that the federal government shouldn't have stopped reconstruction until blacks were on comparable economic footing to whites. Leaving them as an underclass dependent on the higher classes (whites) for the ability to make a living gave rise to Jim Crow and enabled the institutional racism that has perpetuated to this day.