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BumRushDaShow

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11. The "cuts" are NOT happening to the large, white-owned corporate farms
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 01:45 PM
20 hrs ago

but to the under-served minority (black/brown/indigenous) and urban farmers who have been screwed over and over for a century.

Muskrat had his 19 year old goons run an algorithm looking for the terms "DEI" and used that to cut money.

John Boyd, Jr., head of the National Black Farmer's Association, mentioned some of the issues when the first round of cuts came through last year, with some eventually halted by the courts -



I expect he'll be doing the media rounds again with this.

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