Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)Ā said a lot of wild thingsĀ during his Sunday morning media blitz. But one of his comments has received far less attention than the others: Vance described a federal program that hasĀ distributedĀ nearly $2 billion to mostly Black farmers who experienced discrimination as ā€œdisgraceful,ā€ suggesting that it is racist against white people.

And now, the head of the largest group of Black farmers across the country is condemning Vanceā€™s assertions.

ā€œHe owes us an apology,ā€Ā John Boyd, Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told me. The remarks, Boyd added, were ā€œdisgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful to the nationā€™s Black farmers, the oldest occupation in history for Black people.ā€

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    3 months ago

    I thought they may have meant Friday. Or any of the other five days since. Yā€™know, a Sunday barnstorm of Meet the Twaddle is customary, but - what, do they tape it a day ahead? Why would they write an article so late about it?

    You just normally see an article about a Sunday press appearance earlier than Saturday. And for whatever reason, probably in large part because I make efforts to avoid that 1950ā€™s excruciatingly overwrought political theatre brought to us by the makers of Parliament cigarettes, I didnā€™t see anything else about his predictably awful interviews.

    Sorry to bother you.

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      3 months ago

      You just normally see an article about a Sunday press appearance earlier than Saturday.

      Holy shit dude. For the last time, the article is about the founder of the National Black Farmer Associationā€™s comments regarding what JD Vance said. Thatā€™s why it was written on Friday. Vanceā€™s comments were from Sunday. Then the NBFAā€™s founder spoke out about it days later. I literally cannot dumb this down for you any more than I already have.