Farming is one thing that can be succeeded at no matter your race. All you need is the land and time, not even that many supplies if you choose not to use pesticides and make fertilizer from scratch. You can work a small farm with a family of just a few people, if they were to be working every day. One could essentially cut off from the rest of the world and survive off their own farm product, so no one would care your race or ethnicity, and your plants will usually not judge you for that kind of thing.
Plus, plenty of poor people are farmers, and it is a way that humans have coped with poverty many centuries--to grow their own food in the dirt with seeds and scraps. My people of the Ukraine did this, when there was famine, to stay alive when their food resources were cut off by USSR. I could only really see a person arguing about the "privilege" aspect of farming or being denied the accessibility to farm, if they were referring to people who lived in dense cities without enough space, or not owning a property thus not being able to modify the terrain. But neither of these things have to do with being a black or indigenous person of color, necessarily, they just have to do with being poor or in urban areas. Which would be racist to assume that this is where all the "BIPOC" live.
If anyone else saw that horrid plywood sign at the CHAZ thread that explained having a separate garden for BIPOC, because "farming and agriculture has been historically denied to people of color", please understand my infinite frustration at these statements especially when they come from the left who claim to be so "educated" and "woke". I would believe it was written by an ignorant white person, or at least someone who is not educated on the history of other nations besides United States.
What do these people think that the natives of North and South America were doing before white people came to colonize everything? Do you think food just fell out of the sky? Do you think they prayed for food, and that when Columbus came to the New World, he taught the savage natives how to farm and plant crops as white people had invented? I don't know if you have heard of the country China, but it seems impossible that they had to wait until white people made it over there and said "hey look at all this rice, did you ever think about systematically planting and harvesting it?" Someone must name me a time and place in history, where there is a pattern of white people giving and taking away farming permissions from indigenous or people of color. Systematic racism that leads to POC not being able to get enough money to purchase land for a farm, or the taking of land from natives (which is a separate, bigger issue of colonialism, not simply farming) does not count. I want to know where exactly is this big history of farming and agriculture accessibility being denied to anyone. They don't even argue that whites forced (and still force) POC to slave away in fields whether it's cotton or Florida oranges, and say the garden is a sort of "reparations" for those people because we have forced them to work and then reap the benefits ourselves. I would believe that simply because it has more logic.
I swear these people claim they are so woke but never made it through high school class. It's like they sleptwalked through basic education and somehow found themselves in college, where they were taught all this victimizing stuff that makes them feel like they are "not permitted" to do anything in society. We all know that no one has been stopping them from farming: the real reason they don't do it is because it's a full-time commitment and requires hard work, which is something they have never done in their lives. I wish they would try it some time, because hard work can feel quite rewarding for normal people.
