You kiddos have no idea how groundbreaking this was. Like there’s a reason THE lesbian website for a billion years was called After Ellen. She changed everything.
“Mother nature doesn’t discriminate,” Burrell said. “It doesn’t rain on white farms but not black farms. Insects don’t [only] attack black farmers’ land…why is it then that white farmers are buying Stine seed and their yield is 60, 70, 80, and 100 bushels of soybeans and black farmers who are using the exact same equipment with the exact same land, all of a sudden, your seeds are coming up 5, 6, and 7 bushels?”
i am losing my shit all over the fucking place because yes I believe this company would do this, god damn them.
It’s funny how white people will swear any disparities between black and white people is because black people just don’t work hard enough and then do shit like this
Enclosure is the process whereby commonly-utilized resources are privatized to enrich individual property owners (rather than the whole community). Capitalism got its start by enclosing land commons throughout the world, and to this day it is a structural trait of the system to enclose any and all uncommodified goods. Healthcare, education, media, art, internet access, parks, workplaces — even though communities utilize these resources, private autocrats make the decisions and accumulate the profits. Partisans of capitalism would have you believe that enclosure benefits a vast multitude of property owners, but in reality it’s more likely that a wealthy minority will control the majority of the viable resources in any given society.
The socialist antithesis is a democratic commons, where people collectively manage the resources they need to live well and democratically participate in the decisions that impact them. Life would be about enriching the whole population, all and each, rather than about the accumulation of wealth for a select few.
There’s a reason why Robin Hood was always able to justify his “theft” of wealth from the rich: the wealth was stolen to begin with, part and parcel to a great social evil committed by class tyrants who plunder the common human inheritance. With capitalist crises on the rise and climate catastrophe threatening the future of human society and global ecosystems, Robin Hood stories are needed now more than ever.
I’m so goddamn mad that oil companies have known climate change is real for decades and did everything to stop people from acting on it. I want to burn their offices down. I want to throw their CEOs into a fucking pit. The world is being destroyed because some filthy rich fucks saw the end coming and figured making money off it was better than saving it. That’s pure evil, plain and simple.
