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00:00The heist of the Black Cowboy was the erasure of Black people in general in our relationship to
00:18land. It's this removal and omission of Black people's roles and contributions to the cowboy
00:24culture, but it's also the literal theft of land that makes the Black Cowboy livelihood
00:29almost impossible. There are so many methods that the federal government and individual
00:40white vigilantes have used to force Black people off of their land, and there's often
00:45no recourse for the Black families who have watched this happen. Black folks have lost
00:52over 14 million acres of land in the past century. It is one of the greatest heists of our time.
00:59Black people off of their land. You blowin' money fast on this side. Catch up.
01:19I purchased 280 acres, this one piece of property, three different counties, you can't do nothing
01:47without land, somebody could go buy that car you got, they could go buy that Jeep you got,
01:51all of that, but if they want this corner, you gotta come see the boss, you come out here
02:06in the middle of the night, it'll be a pack of 40 digs, bouncing, all you gotta do is just
02:14sit back, relax, watch it all come and go on the promised land.
02:20Oh brothers, let's go down, let's go down, come on down, come on down.
02:27By my mother being from Mississippi, by hearing the conversations of, you know, different people
02:32being in the fields, whether that was picking cotton or somebody being on a horse, I would
02:38always hear that.
02:39When you say cowboy, I don't think of Lone Ranger, I think of some niggas that was out
02:48back, a black man without a saddle on a motherfucking Bronco.
02:55Yeah.
02:58This is as peaceful as it gets.
03:00Land is very important to the cowboy story because it is important to the American story.
03:10The idea, the wealth of America was tending the land and the cattle and black people did
03:17that.
03:19For me at an early age, black cowboys, cowboys, that was just something that I always, that
03:26energy I absorbed, and I believe that's what led me to wanting to own my own, I would never
03:34use the term plantation because that's not what this is, but I own acreage.
03:45Like most bad hands dealt to black people, we made the most of it.
03:48Post-emancipation, well, black men had options.
03:52Earning about just as much as white men they could save for their own cattle and their own
03:56land.
03:59Right after the Civil War, black people found out that America was about to admit a new
04:05state called Oklahoma.
04:08And there was a secret plan across America.
04:12If all of the black people exited to Oklahoma, it would be majority black.
04:19And we'd have essentially our own state.
04:26Oklahoma becomes a state where both black and indigenous people are saying, this is our
04:30space to be free and to be free of white people.
04:34This is why there are now so many all black towns in Oklahoma.
04:40We're in Edmond, Oklahoma, on my property.
04:46Come on.
04:4633 acres.
04:47There they come.
04:48And it's been passed down from my father to me, from me to my kids, and it's just been
04:53our way of life for me for 48 years.
04:57To be a black cowboy is, I guess I would say we've always been here.
05:03It's just something about when you're on the back of the horse, and you just see that
05:09head going up and down, up and down.
05:13It frees your mind.
05:15All the bad things of the day wash away.
05:20That's my time to be alone with God.
05:23There's so many things I've been able to do that I never would have thought about had
05:31I not been spending time with my horse.
05:37The cowboy culture is built around honor.
05:39It's built around respect.
05:41You do those two things, as a cowboy, as an American, the world will be just fine.
05:48Get back out there.
05:53This has been a part of the way we've been raised.
05:56Hey, don't do that.
05:58We've always been here.
05:59But it hasn't seen the light that it should have.
06:07The Black Frontier has its own story to tell.
06:09Gunslingers, ranchers, lawmen, and wranglers all providing the blackhand side with an A1 list
06:13of heavy hitters.
06:18Bowley was Black Wall Street, actually, before Tulsa.
06:24And it was a stop on the railroad.
06:28And it was all black.
06:30They had their own electric company, four water companies, grocery stores, movie theaters.
06:37It was a huge town.
06:41Booker T. Washington said it should be the envy of the world.
06:45It shows what these black towns were trying to do when they exodusted.
07:02They were trying to create for themselves the thing that they had created for white people
07:11for 300 years.
07:13The exoduster movement becomes this possibility, this promise made.
07:29And black people, for years, go for it.
07:31And they are largely successful in creating all black towns.
07:35But then, those black towns become too successful.
07:38They become envied.
07:39And then they are taken back.
07:41An early citizen like Sam Carson has seen it all change within his lifetime.
07:49His grandchildren, Eddie and Janet, were born here.
07:53They are too young to remember Tulsa as it was, or to realize the struggle in planning that
07:58have gone into making the modern Tulsa a good place for them to grow up in.
08:02The first time we saw the property, I don't know if you ever saw the wildebeest's great migration on TV.
08:30Like, right when they coming out the water and they running up that hill, I was like, man, this looks like a baby Serengeti here.
08:38Like, I was just in awe, and I fell in love with the landscape.
08:43I named our ranch Freedom Acres Ranch because I want people to come.
08:53And I want you to know that you're not judged.
08:56I don't see the color of your skin.
08:59I see a person.
09:00You know what I'm saying?
09:01I see a human being.
09:02Upon us first purchasing the property, we go up this road, and then this white lady comes outside, and she's like, who are you, and what are you doing?
09:14And I was like, ma'am, I'm the new owner of this property.
09:16And then she proceeded to say, well, well, we shoot dogs.
09:21And I looked at Nicole, and, you know, we kind of gave her that look is to say, okay, that's cold word for how I shoot niggas.
09:29Did you know the white folks could just take your shit?
09:35And I've always known that, but it really kicked up a few notches when I learned about Manifest Destiny in the fifth grade.
09:41The Louisiana Purchase set the West wide open for new settlement, and here go white people.
09:45Couldn't wait to make some shit up.
09:46There it was in the textbooks.
09:48The belief that white Americans should control a vast section of North America from coast to coast.
09:53The fundamental economic engine of this country is stolen land.
10:01Every single inch of ground on this continent was taken and repurposed for the use of European colonizers.
10:12That's the story of America.
10:15If you do something too bad for too long, then you lose your citizens and you lose your support.
10:20And so they have to get citizens on board, and they have to get the buy-in.
10:25Does anybody know why this stage has a cavalry escort?
10:28To protect us from the Indians.
10:30You may have noticed that we white people have a way of taking what we want without regard to what the present owner might think about it.
10:36Some people could call it stealing.
10:37We call it Manifest Destiny.
10:41Just before Andrew Jackson became president, James Monroe came up with a doctrine known as Manifest Destiny.
10:47Essentially, it was the idea that God had given the continent of North America to Western, Northern European cultures.
10:56The English, the French, the Germans.
10:59They were given this new world to settle, to civilize, and to fill in.
11:04I'm confused here.
11:12Which God are you talking about?
11:13The creator?
11:15There's gods that don't accept other people.
11:18Is that their God gives them that land?
11:21It was a land that had over 5 million Native Americans living on it with their own gods.
11:30There's been a whole process of storytelling that doesn't even begin in the cinema.
11:38It's really folk tales and stories that were told about life on the frontier.
11:42Those are the narratives that justified Manifest Destiny.
11:47There's an 1872 painting called American Progress.
11:51An angel looking toward the West, guiding the white people to own and take control of the land that we now call America.
12:02White men are wranglers of the wild, wild west.
12:06It's full of cacti and wild Indians who need to be reined in.
12:13And all of a sudden, when you see black and indigenous people on land, you think, where's the white person who's supposed to help them?
12:19Do they know what to do with this land?
12:22It's this idea that this is a white space, so we'll let you have a little thing while you help us.
12:26You can wash our laundry.
12:27You can take care of our animals.
12:28But if you try to actually get something and build something, that's not what God intended.
12:32So we're going to take this and we're going to use the laws of man to do it.
12:38There's so many really harrowing examples of black land theft, like the Tulsa Race Massacre.
12:47It was a deadly race riot left out of the history books and archives of local newspapers, rarely talked about by whites long hidden.
12:56White Tulsans descended on the city's thriving black district, known as Black Wall Street.
13:01White rioters killed hundreds of black residents.
13:04Those are places where we built black economic wealth, where we owned our property, and they burned them to the ground.
13:13That's one of the more obvious examples, but there have been so many different ways and methods and tactics and strategies used.
13:19They've been taking black land for centuries.
13:24And so there's power in that.
13:25If there wasn't power, we wouldn't have a Tulsa.
13:28Two black ranchers in rural El Paso County say their cries for help and allegations of racism have been largely ignored by the sheriff's office for years.
13:40Mallory say after reporting these incidents to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, they were the ones who ended up in handcuffs.
13:48Farming while black in America.
13:50Farming while black in America.
13:52My initial dream has been challenged.
13:56America is beautiful for some.
13:58It's not as beautiful for black people.
14:04There are a different set of rules for black landowners than there are for white landowners.
14:10The good white folk of Colorado decided they didn't want them there.
14:16They're doing things like killing their sheep, destroying equipment, trying to push them off their land.
14:22I've had the police called on me just for being on my own property and riding on a certain side of my property.
14:29And you guys were down there just filming your story?
14:31Why?
14:33I mean, we can go on any...
14:34No, no, let me be clear.
14:36We don't call the police when white people are driving around the roads, right?
14:40When they come and they sit in front of our property today and they took photographs.
14:45But let's be clear about what's happening here.
14:46It's white people, right?
14:48Because you have to call these things out for exactly what they are.
14:52White people are weaponizing the police on us because we're black.
14:56White people are weaponizing the police on us because we're black.
15:26Land is freedom.
15:28Land is food.
15:30Land is power.
15:35The whole fight of the black cowboy, the black farmer in this country, is about land ownership.
15:45The black cowboy and the land goes hand in hand.
15:49And when you try to separate them, only the worst happens.
15:51Over the last century, America's black farmers have lost more than 90% of their land because
15:57of systemic discrimination and a cycle of debt.
16:00There's really not been a face for black farmers the way John Boyd has been over the past several
16:08years.
16:08I'm founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, the baddest black farm
16:14organization in the United States.
16:18I need to be able to plant my wheat like everybody else.
16:22I need to be able to plant my corn like everybody else.
16:26Somebody here ought to know what I'm talking about today.
16:28Get to check out the mail and give it to them.
16:30He's been at the head of a lot of action against the federal government.
16:34The federal government that's supposed to be getting the land up to black farmers was
16:38helping eliminate black farmers by discrimination in this country.
16:42And someone asked me the other day, what would you do to preserve your land?
16:47Man, I would die for it.
16:49John Boyd has been fighting one of the most powerful bureaucracies in the nation, the U.S.
16:55Department of Agriculture, over one of the most valuable entities in our country, land.
17:03At USDA, we are working tirelessly to be a model department that serves all the people
17:08of our great nation.
17:10USDA is at the core of the land theft and using the laws to steal land from black cowboys and
17:17black farmers in this country.
17:19And we all named it the last plantation.
17:23During the Civil War, an institution called the Freedmen's Bureau was created to help
17:28formerly enslaved people assimilate.
17:31And it was responsible for dispensing stolen lands to African-Americans through Special
17:41Field Order No. 15 at 40 Acres and a Mule.
17:4540 Acres and a Mule, this is bigger than the music.
17:48When our ancestors were released as slaves, this country promised them 40 acres of land
17:54and a mule to eat slaves.
17:58It's hard to miss the phenomenon called Spike Lee.
18:0280 Acres of Tilt Land?
18:0480 Acres of Tilt Land?
18:06That's 2 times 40.
18:07That's 2 times 40.
18:08That was the number one goal coming out of slavery.
18:10You wanted to be a landowner.
18:11Just before that, black people were considered property.
18:18I mean, imagine if your granddad was a TV and now you own a whole TV company.
18:21That's success.
18:22They had the skills to enrich themselves and then they used that money to acquire land.
18:29In 40 years, black people went from owning nothing to owning 20 million acres of land.
18:39The U.S. government promised newly freed black Americans 40 acres and a mule, but that promise was broken.
18:46When the Freedmen's Bureau program was ended, their purpose was folded into the U.S.D.A.
18:52So the U.S.D.A. was in charge of that land.
18:56Instead of giving it to the people for whom the Freedmen's Bureau was created, they gave it to white people.
19:03The government says, guess what? I changed my mind. I'm going to take it back.
19:10There's all these policies that are giving away land to white Americans as if they're shooting T-shirts out of a T-shirt gun.
19:18This is the Cold War to restore America to its own people.
19:26After the Great Depression, FDR comes in and says, I have this radically progressive idea that's going to funnel money into America.
19:36The New Deal was the greatest economic giveaway in the history of the Western world, which gave away millions of acres of land to white people.
19:51USDA Rural Development supports the American dream.
19:55It costs a whole lot of money to put plants in the ground and to grow them.
20:00A lot of farmers apply for loans from the federal government every single year, and they get these from the U.S.D.A.
20:07Black folks were never able to get the same amount of federal aid as white farmers.
20:14Let us pay $100,000 a year like they do everybody else instead of having to pay all of it at once.
20:23You're afraid that a majority of blacks could get control of the county.
20:28I'm not afraid of it because I don't expect to live to see that day.
20:32The white people see this as a threat to their whole way of life.
20:38They were denied at higher rates, they were made to jump through hoops, and they were penalized if they were, quote unquote, uppity.
20:50In 1997, the National Black Farmers Association sued the United States Department of Agriculture for the act of discrimination.
21:00The class action lawsuit that they brought was called Pickford versus Glickman.
21:04It was a lawsuit against the U.S.D.A.
21:07When white farmers came in, they would process their loans less than 30 days, and for black farmers, it took 387 days on average.
21:15We were trying to purchase land through the loan process. We were told that black people do not farm.
21:22In the end, they didn't quite get exactly what they wanted.
21:27The vast majority never received a dime from the federal government.
21:31The billions of dollars in federal aid promised to them is on hold.
21:35John Boyd Jr. says he sees the withheld funding, quote, like the 40 acres and a mule, empty promises to blacks and other farmers of color.
21:43What really happened over the course of history is every single incentive we had in the federal government, in our banking system, in the fact that black folks had a 200 year handicap in their ability to possess land.
22:00Those things all conspired together to end up in this mass dispossession.
22:06I think people should know the term great land robbery.
22:11It is one of the single biggest and most important moments in black history in America.
22:21Booker T. Washington said that since the bulk of our people already have a foundation in agriculture, they are at their best living in the country engaged in agricultural pursuit.
22:36Post civil war, the one silver lining that white America didn't really expect is that black people just never gave up on the south.
22:46We have owned land in North Carolina since just about a decade after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
22:52My great great great grandfather is one of the black people who becomes a landowner, buys land from a white woman.
22:58She had a plantation that she could not afford to keep without forced labor.
23:03And so he's able to benefit from the ruins of the Confederacy.
23:07Zen, land ownership is your future.
23:12Being a kid and being on land that your family owns is so freeing.
23:17I got married on that land. I hope that my son gets married on that land and that there are so many celebrations to come on it.
23:26Our ancestors literally bled, sweated, cried on that soil.
23:31And now we can be victorious. We can laugh. We can be joyful. We can be in love on that same land.
23:36And what a full circle moment to be a part of, to be the generation that gets the look back.
23:55We're sitting on some really good ground.
23:58We have the highest population of black producers in the United States.
24:06And I always tell people the reason why is we have a big river called the Trinity River that runs right here through Butler.
24:14The boat pretty much led us off here. And this is where we end up staying.
24:21That history is a reason why I'm really trying to build generational wealth here.
24:26When you think of wealth in this nation, real estate and property are so central to that.
24:37In one lifetime, a home can go from being a hundred thousand dollars to well over seven figures.
24:43And so when black people don't have land, whether that's a home, whether that's a farm, whether that's a business to pass on,
24:50we are missing out on crucial parts of building generational wealth.
24:54And so we're just forever trading in our work for an hourly wage.
25:00My name is Kimberly Ratcliffe. I am the cowgirl.
25:04I am also manager of Caney Creek Ranch and owner of Ratcliffe Premium Meats.
25:08So it's 10 pounds of flank steak. Then we have the rack of lambs. Then we have those three.
25:15Accumulating land that just to have land to me is not important.
25:19Accumulating land with an intent to do something with it is important.
25:22My dad bought his first plot of land in 1975. He always had a dream of owning more land, but he also wanted to operate it.
25:33So in order to operate it, he realized he had to go into corporate America's job to actually afford to operate land.
25:39So my dad's job took us to New York.
25:43I worked for a major computer company, International Business Machines. I managed the plant for IBM in Brooklyn.
25:53I thought I wanted to work in the area that my dad worked in. I thought I wanted to be a city girl.
26:00But I decided after a while that I wanted to do something different.
26:05And I was driving by the location where I am now and I saw a sign out there.
26:12And the sign said for sale.
26:14We're seeing this return back to the land right now. And I think it is the boomerang of the Great Migration.
26:20I've been calling it the Great Return because it is often black people in these great migration destination cities like Chicago, Newark, New York, Oakland.
26:30Who are returning to rural Southern and Midwestern roots. But now they have economic means, political power.
26:36And so they're coming back to the South with a lot more resources than when they left.
26:41When I was in New York, I worked for Bloomberg Financial. And I realized there was a huge disconnect, mainly because of the food system.
26:51I don't think they understood what it really took to grow our food.
26:55But at the same time, you guys want to trade our food. You want to decide what the price is on our food.
27:03So after my parents bought the operation that I'm sitting on right now, I wanted to connect myself back to where everything was grown.
27:09And pretty much where my family's roots were.
27:19So I have my livestock company, which just buys all the livestock.
27:23And then I have the meat processing company that then processes the livestock.
27:28Then I have my cold storage company. Then I have my marketing company. And then I have the distribution.
27:34And that nonprofit side takes all these producers that I'm working with on a daily basis and making sure they can grow.
27:40Oh, yeah, it's done.
27:43I think we're at a point now where we're tired of superficial things. All that's going to fade away eventually, but that land's going to be there.
27:53Leaving New York was not an easy choice, but I felt I had to to keep this family land together.
27:58When I came here, I was bombarded with people saying, hey, I want to get the next generation. I want to get my kids and stuff to do what you did to come back to the ranch.
28:11And I can see the same story for you.
28:13Yeah, we have done so much that we need to be proud of. And that's what's going to bring the kids up.
28:18Not necessarily talking about the cotton pit in times. We have to talk about it, right? There's nothing wrong with talking about it.
28:23But we also need to talk about the beautiful things that are happening in this community and say, hey, we're not doing that anymore.
28:30We're building such a beautiful community now. Come back.
28:34For many of us, we respond to the trauma of slavery by rejecting anything agricultural.
28:40But Afro-pastoralism is about honoring the fact that our history does not begin or end with slavery, that before we were forced laborers on the American continent,
28:49we were chosen stewards on the African continent. And we loved land. We grew things because it fed us, because it healed us, because it was a thing that we've done since the beginning of time.
29:00All right, man. Hey, see my babies.
29:04OK, so I'm super excited because we just mapped out what we're going to do with my land here. Get to use the lake for irrigation, which is dope, super sustainable.
29:11Do you hear that? They're literally talking to each other.
29:16It's a cow's name.
29:18Antonio Enrique Cortes Leche.
29:21Serena. That's the name of the cow.
29:23So I let the kids do the name, man.
29:24And you just call it Leche.
29:28I'm on the football field. I'm just trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible.
29:32But here in the farm, I'm a little bit more gentle.
29:34You got to have your knees, man.
29:36I think I may be more scared to pick up the chicken than anything.
29:40I'd rather know how to grow food than put a basketball in a hoop, and that's the only thing I know how to do.
29:45I'd much rather learn how to be fruitful off the land, and that's the real wealth.
29:49I want you guys to be inspired to invest, to put your money in the land, because there's nothing like it.
29:53There's nothing sexier than being a farmer. I do say so myself.
29:57So we'll have a little trail ride and then enjoy a meal.
30:00Enjoy a meal.
30:02Enjoy a celebration. Enjoy the day.
30:04Let me first thank all of you for coming to Radcliffe Candy Creek Ranch today.
30:09Juneteenth has been special to me all my life, and probably all your life as well.
30:14Juneteenth is the day that we were no longer slaves.
30:17It's the day in the books that's stamped that says you guys are free, free to own land, free to be our own entrepreneurs, free to grow and prosper.
30:26I appreciate everyone for coming out tonight.
30:28I made these phone calls and not one of you guys said no.
30:32Uh, I had an old uncle, old Uncle George. Uncle George had been a slave.
30:39And when I met Uncle George, he was 102 years old.
30:42He said, whatever you do, young fella, don't give up.
30:46And I've listened to that. I don't give up.
30:48I don't give up.
30:50We cannot get rid of that history. That history needs to be here.
30:54That is my ultimate goal.
30:57It's for this land to be in my family long after I'm gone.
31:01The history of our land was what made it so special.
31:07Great-great-grandfather is buried in our family cemetery.
31:12It is a beautiful place. It is a contemplative place.
31:16It's a place where I will spend the rest of my existence as ashes on this planet and in this realm.
31:18Daniel Alexander is there by the cactus.
31:19His tombstone is basically a tombstone-shaped rock.
31:21But what we are
31:43Alexander is there by the cactus. His tombstone is basically a tombstone shaped rock. According
31:50to the records he's been here since 1883. We are close to the oldest black farm in
31:57Travis County and in Austin. Plenty of people came from farms who are black.
32:03We are still farmers and we're black. I used to get the milk for the family cereal. You didn't
32:11notice Julia, did you? We picked cotton for our grandfather, you know. We hauled hay and did that
32:18back, you know, way back. That's what I've done my whole life. The thing I love most about in the open
32:24land is that it is so peaceful. In 1968 the Texas government took acreage from our farm for the
32:33expansion of US 183. That eminent domain taking did impact the farm in innumerable ways.
32:44Now the fifth amendment says if the government must indeed seize your private property,
32:47they must provide the owner with just compensation. But as always, they did not mean that for the blacks.
32:53Eminent domain disproportionately affects black people because America hates black people.
32:57If the federal government or local governments ever decided to take private white citizens
33:05property for the purpose of a park, a lake, a highway, there would be riots. Similar actions
33:11had been taken on our land in 1937 and 1926 before it. That 37 expansion created several lots that are
33:21overrun with all sorts of environmentally toxic businesses. Businesses that threaten and spoil
33:26our groundwater and our air and our soil. When the water is unclean, it's like, okay, well,
33:32we'll have the Flint residents drink that. You know, when it's time to build a new dump,
33:36it's like, let's put that in black people's backyard. As a result of a drainage issue, the developer on
33:44two sides of us flooded our cemetery under three and a half to four feet of water. The tombstones tilted
33:51more. We cannot, without risking the brittleness of the tombstones, correct them. The highway also split
34:00a portion of grandfather's land so that the edge on the other side was useless to him. So it was gone too.
34:10Part of Central Park was a multi-racial but predominantly black neighborhood called Seneca Village.
34:16The land we're standing on is Seneca Village and they were evicted and bulldozed so they could build
34:22this park. Eminent domain is used to take Seneca Village and make it into this beautiful Central
34:27Park. And there's just a tiny plaque in one of the entrances that honors it. And we almost never tell
34:32the story. The Ford case where they want to build this blue Ford dealership, this massive plant in
34:41western Tennessee. When they had other means to get to this plant, easier routes, they took black land.
34:54Our country has let us down as black landowners. It's part of the entire development strategy that
35:03happened in just about any urban area in this country. In 2019, TxDOT approached us about a potential
35:14expansion. We fought back by stakeholder meetings first with TxDOT. We also fought back with lobbying.
35:21They've since put it on a sort of a what they call a pause. We were advised that the pause would result
35:28in other routes being explored. This is all the farm. This is us.
35:39And they actually took a part of it to make a road.
35:44How dare they? We will stop this now. We will stop this now.
35:54We'll get it done.
35:58We're here at the Boyd's Farm in Virginia, celebrating a victory that Mr. John Boyd got farmers.
36:22Shit, they've been in everything. Part of me continuing my fight is because of John Boyd and Kara Boyd.
36:32My husband, John Boyd, is a civil rights activist. Kara Boyd is a social justice warrior.
36:39I'm the founder and president of the Association of American Indian Farmers, and I'm a cowgirl.
36:45The American myth of the cowboys has never sat well with me. The Native Americans were never the winners.
36:51They were never the conquerors. They were always murdered and made out to be savages.
36:56It seemed like destiny had brought us together. And I think that that's what really makes a difference,
37:02is that we're able to walk side by side to champion not only agriculture, food sovereignty,
37:08but also for the land and advocating for these farmers who didn't have a voice to speak for themselves.
37:17This dinner sums up what the definition of freedom is,
37:22because the federal government, for the first time in history, sent black farmers $2 billion in this country.
37:31Well, after years of discrimination, the USDA is giving black and other minority farmers $2 billion.
37:39Black and minority farmers will begin receiving discrimination relief payments from the USDA
37:44after years of bias in the agency's farm loan program.
37:48Now, this financial assistance is not compensation for anyone's loss or the pain endured,
37:53but it is an acknowledgement by the department.
37:57Think of what that payment did for needy black farmers who've been told their whole damn life,
38:02you can't get nothing, you can't get a loan. That is the pain and part of the ammunition
38:08that kept me going for all of these years. We've been told all of these things.
38:15Yeah. And then you get a happy check in the mailbox to 45,000 farmers in this country.
38:24That's it. And you know, this is the resilience dinner. These are the people that have survived,
38:31man. This is, yes, this is a dinner about survival. So one of the first people that I called was the
38:37Mallory's and they said, Brother Boyd, I got it. I'm happy. Just tears of joy. This is really
38:48powerful for us to be sitting here amongst history and other black farmers that are fighting this
38:55good fight. And while you guys have started this, you know, we got to continue on and make sure that
39:00this torch is passed down. This settlement means that black farmers have the option now
39:07a passing on generation of wealth. Hey, look, can we get a good photo over here? Yeah. Yes.
39:15I see it as a huge win for black cowboys.
39:18I see it as the biggest victory since the civil rights act.
39:30Black Lives Matter.
39:43Far outside is Black Lives Matter.
39:45Meet one of the most high profile horses in North Texas named Black Lives Matter last month.
39:56They won their first race. They say the best part is hearing the name called over the intercom.
40:00The cultural heist is probably the most lucrative part of the theft of the cowboy.
40:15We're just talking about being allowed to celebrate our music without bringing in
40:20outside sources that really aren't a part of that genre. Country music is black music.
40:26How dare these people close that genre off to us.
40:39These people close the sight of adventurous collapse in 1970.
40:45Whoo-n BLACK lives?
40:46Uh-huh.
40:48So you can fiver of it.
40:53So you're making changes to ch inn toothpicks,
40:55You Rappui to perde the city of Nashville!
40:59You're making changes to watch our culture.
41:00How dare these people close to life?
41:03You're making changes to change
41:04that to all of the happenings of North Texas?
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