The Legacy of African American Farmers | Trail of History

[@onediaspora]

Outstanding piece, should be required viewing in schools...and yes, Wali Cathcart is my dad :-).

[@user-yi1hy7qp1y]

I agree and I am going to show this to my middle school environmental science class. I think they will find this worthwhile.

[@xtrextrex]

Hope you all are still keeping the land in your family. ✊🏾

[@onediaspora]

We are keeping our few acres...:-)@@xtrextrex

[@NotUrAvgGenZ]

@@onediasporahi! This is random but my name is Kaí, not sure if you know but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask! I for a long time now have long admired those who live off the land, I grew up in the Chicagoland area and did not grow up that way but have longed to honor our ancestors and God in that way the older I’ve gotten and the more I’ve learned about what it’d mean to be a land owner and be self sufficient and pass that down to my own family. I said all this to say, do you know if there’s any land of your family’s or of other families that you know that has no one to look after it? Ik your grandfather mentioned that in the video and it also breaks my heart that so many of us young black people don’t see the value in land and tending to it, and I think it’s hurting us. That’s where we came from. It’s also where so many of us have lost our chance to wealth as this video has explained. I hope you see this! I’d understand if this would be something that you and your family wouldn’t want to share. But if there is a need to find people to tend to the land and if you all care to give it someone who will care for it, especially so it doesn’t land in the hands of people who don’t care, I’d love to know more about what that would look like and for you guys to get to know me and my husband as well. Thanks so much for reading this and hope to get a response! :)🙏🏽

[@onediaspora]

@@NotUrAvgGenZ Thanks for reaching out...and he's my dad :-). As of now, our family takes care of our small piece of land, but thanks for reaching out. But you and your husband to journey south and look at various areas ... you might be able to get some land of your own in any number of states.

[@daviddickey4331]

This is something that i remember while i would run around and play as my great, great Aunt and uncle were share croppers and my father hung tobacco on the land that were living on. I had to pick up tobacco leaves of the ground and off the floor in the barns as they hung tobacco in the barns. I just turned 58 and this bought back memories for me as a young boy around the age of 4 years old.

[@georleansanders9067]

I am a Native Mississippian and have a small farm. I would love to help these beautiful people farm.

[@JWorm416]

I'd sure like to be apart of this powerful movement. I lost my farm but will not quit nor give up. I'd like to be in a Southern state. How can I fet in contact with you.

[@georleansanders9067]

@@JWorm416 do you have Instagram? I put our information in the comments

[@cedricclark1461]

This is so Great Deep Roots is my family btw👊✊

[@darlenesutton7248]

Thank you Beverly for sharing you have a beautiful legacy.

[@tommymack6286]

That was a Great show of real history

[@kevinpoole4323]

Thank You Mr &Mrs Myers. Well Done.

[@joywright7091]

Thank you for sharing 😊

[@kevinpoole4323]

A Great Cowboy Story Beautiful You Have the Vision.

[@prettyprincess8187]

I love this and the message. It's time for us to return to the land.

[@venetiakelley]

Definitely

[@GanjaDaddi_]

Yes because the pilgrims have had over 500 years and have failed miserably. Nothing but destruction.

[@delaciwoods8864]

I love it

[@kevinpoole4323]

The Honorable Cecil Brewington Thank You.

[@brendacuffee9884]

Thanks for this history!

[@kevinpoole4323]

Keep it Going

[@cherokeejames963]

Awesome

[@octaviahicks-braye9859]

This a great story. The younger generation has learned to sell everything. They have not been properly educated on slavery. Land equals power. During slavery you could not own, land, housing, businesses or be educated. The abolitionist snd Christian’s started free black towns and some exist today from Maryland to Mississippi. Others are being preserved. The Quakers, remanent o f other Christians, Union soldiers and a remnant from England, Scotland, and Germany assisted in building blacks towns from Maryland to Mississippi.and helping them secure land. Good to see good things are still going on in the midst.

[@GanjaDaddi_]

Fk the Quaker’s too they were enslavers and rapists as well, stop romanticizing your enemies. That is a mental illness.

[@leebstill]

I appreciate my ancestors, but I’m so glad I discovered permaculture farming it’s so much easier to mimic nature

[@MonicaSmith-i8k]

Right! That's awesome prayer 🙏 for me and our family yes Yahuah, Eloihim , Yah 2024 11 08 . Keep going on i can't wait St louis 😊

[@kevinpoole4323]

Nice Family

[@kevinpoole4323]

Right On Wisdom

[@xtrextrex]

speechless

[@isabellefoy7307]

Beautiful doc ❤

[@michaelarnold9445]

Remember past but keep up or loss all we whon😮😢

[@FarmingUnclear]

This is not history. This is still happening. In 2019, the USDA was caught discriminating against black farmers. The legislation to fix the wrong done to black farmers was stalled in courts by white farmers wanting their share in 2020. In 2021, 73% of the money won in the lawsuit was distributed to white farmers versus 26% for black farmers (1% other).

[@kelvintorrence5994]

dam we cannnot get anything without a bunch off hands coming in for a share of something they arent owed

[@Tammarrah100]

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[@GanjaDaddi_]

We stopped farming because we became black African-Americans and forgot we are the original indigenous Americans aka Indians the colonizers “found”!! We’ve become foreigners in our own land while pilgrims run with all aspects of our culture, lifestyle and history!

[@kevinpoole4323]

Mr Brewington Mr Cathcart.

[@venetiakelley]

Why do you all have dreadlocks? and, what do they mean?

[@GanjaDaddi_]

Because we are indigenous. It means we have 9ether 🧬 and are organic to the planet.

[@GanjaDaddi_]

Why did the Mayans and Aztecs have locs? What did they mean??

[@CynthiePompey9999]

We are not African Americans, we are Cooper tone America Indians or ne-gro Indians. Cynthie the ne-gro Buddha Seshat Chieftest Powaton 1962 grandma Carolina Chieftest Powaton 1884, farmers. Doc as American Indian, Indigenous.

[@GanjaDaddi_]

Stop calling us/yourself African-American and black. We are indigenous Americans.

[@mcginkleschmidt5457]

By definition the only indigenous Americans were/are the American Indians. If you are not of American Indian heritage, you are no more indigenous than a Caucasian American person.

[@jerryweh-ht4rh]

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