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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 no recourse
00:45for the black families who have watched this happen. Black folks have lost over 14 million
00:54acres of land in the past century. It is one of the greatest heists of our time.
00:59Huh?
01:00You're blowing money fast on this side. Catch up. Catch up.
01:24I think I'm Big Meech. Larry Hoover. Whipping work. Hallelujah. One nation. Under God. Real getting
01:36money from the star. I purchased 280 acres. This one piece of property. Three different
01:44counties. You can't do nothing without land. Somebody could go buy that car you got. They
01:50could go buy that Jeep you got. All of that. But if they want this corner, you gotta come see
01:59the boss. You come out here in the middle of the night, it'll be a pack of 40 deer, bouncing. All
02:13you gotta do is just sit back, relax, watch it all come and go on the promised land.
02:19Oh, brothers, let's go down. Let's go down. Come on down. Come on down. By my mother being
02:28from Mississippi, by hearing the conversations of, you know, different people being in the
02:33fields, whether that was picking cotton or somebody being on a horse, I would always hear that.
02:39When you say cowboy, I don't think a Lone Ranger. I think of some niggas that was out back. A black
02:50man without a saddle on a motherfucking Bronco. Yeah. This is as peaceful as it gets.
03:03Land is very important to the cowboy story because it is important to the American.
03:10The idea, the wealth of America was tending the land and the cattle and black people did that.
03:20For me at an early age, black cowboys, cowboys, that was just something that I always, that energy
03:27I absorbed. And I believe that's what led me to wanting to own my own. I will never use the term
03:35plantation because that's not what this is, but our own acreage.
03:45But like most bad hands dealt to black people, we made the most of it.
03:48Post-emancipation, well, black men had options, earning about just as much as white men they could
03:54save for their own cattle and their own land.
03:56Right after the Civil War, black people found out that America was about to admit a new state
04:07called Oklahoma. And there was a secret plan across America. If all of the black people
04:13exited to Oklahoma, it would be majority black and we'd have essentially our own state.
04:26Oklahoma becomes a state where both black and indigenous people are saying,
04:29this is our space to be free and to be free of white people.
04:34This is why there are now so many all black towns in Oklahoma.
04:43We're in Edmond, Oklahoma on my property, 33 acres. And it's been passed down from my father to me,
04:50from me to my kids. And it's just been our way of life for me for 48 years.
04:55To be a black cowboy is... I guess I would say we've always been here.
05:05It's just something about when you're on the back of the horse and you just see that head going up
05:10and down, up and down. It frees your mind. All the bad things of the day wash away.
05:20That's my time to be alone with God.
05:23Stand tall with my head held high.
05:27There's so many things I've been able to do that I never would have thought about had I not been spending time with my horse.
05:32With the devil in his eyes.
05:36The cowboy culture is built around honor. It'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.
05:53It's just been a part of the way we've been raised.
05:56Hey, don't do that. We've always been here.
05:59But it hasn't seen the light that it should have.
06:03The black frontier has its own story to tell. Gunslingers, ranchers, lawmen and wranglers all
06:11providing the blackhand side with an A1 list of heavy hitters.
06:14Boley was black Wall Street actually before Tulsa. And it was a stop on the railroad and it was all black.
06:30They had their own electric company, four water companies, grocery stores, movie theaters. It was a huge town.
06:41Booker T. Washington said it should be the envy of the world.
06:44It shows what these black towns were trying to do when they exodusted.
07:04They were trying to create for themselves the thing that they had created for white people for 300 years.
07:14The exoduster movement becomes this possibility, this promise made,
07:29and black people for years go for it and they are largely successful in creating all black towns.
07:35But then those black towns become too successful, they become envied, and then they are taken back.
07:41And 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 and planning that have gone into
07:58making 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 Great Migration
08:29on TV. Like right when they coming out the water and they running up that hill, I was like,
08:35man, this looks like a baby Serengeti here. Like, 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.
08:53I want you to know that you're not judged. I don't see the color of your skin. I see a person.
09:00You know what I'm saying? I see a human being.
09:02Upon us first purchasing the property, we go up this road and then this white lady comes outside
09:11and she was like, who are you and what are you doing? And I was like, ma'am, I'm the new owner
09:15of this property. And then she proceeded to say, well, well, we shoot dogs. And I looked at Nicole,
09:23and you know, we kind of gave her that look just to say, okay, that's cold word for I shoot niggas.
09:33Did you know the white folks could just take your shit? And I've always known that,
09:36but 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. Couldn't
09:45wait to make some shit up. There it was in the textbooks. The belief that a white American
09:50should control a vast section of North America from coast to coast.
09:54The 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
10:11colonizers. That's the story of America. If you do something too bad for too long,
10:18then you lose your citizens and you lose your support. And so they have to get citizens on
10:23board and they have to get the buy-in. Does anybody know why this stage has a cavalry escort?
10:28To protect us from the Indians. You may have noticed that we white people have a way of taking
10:32what we want without regard to what the present owner might think about it. Some people could call
10:36that stealing. We call it Manifest Destiny. Just before Andrew Jackson became president,
10:43James Monroe came up with a doctrine known as Manifest Destiny. Essentially, it was the idea
10:49that God had given the continent of North America to Western Northern European cultures. The English,
10:57the French, the Germans. They were given this new world to settle, to civilize, and to fill in.
11:04I'm confused here. Which God are you talking about? The creator? There's gods that don't accept other
11:17people. Is that their God gives them that land? It was a land that had over 5 million Native Americans
11:26living on it with their own gods. There's been a whole process of storytelling that doesn't even begin
11:37in the cinema. It's really folk tales and stories that were told about life on the frontier. Those are
11:43the narratives that justified Manifest Destiny. There's an 1872 painting called American Progress,
11:52an angel looking toward the west, guiding the white people to own and take control of the land that we
12:00now call America. White men are wranglers of the wild, wild west. It's full of cacti and wild Indians
12:10who need to be reined in. And all of a sudden, when you see black and indigenous people on land, you think,
12:16where's the white person who's supposed to help them? Do 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, but you help us. You can wash
12:26our laundry. You can take care of our animals. But if you try to actually get something and build
12:30something, that's not what God intended. So we're going to take this and reuse the laws of man to do it.
12:38There's so many really harrowing examples of black land theft, like the Tulsa Race Massacre.
12:44It was a deadly race riot left out of the history books and archives of local newspapers,
12:52rarely talked about by whites long hidden. White Tulsans descended on the city's thriving black
12:58district, known as Black Wall Street. White rioters killed hundreds of black residents.
13:04Those are places where we built black economic wealth, where we owned our property, and they
13:10burned them to the ground. That's one of the more obvious examples. But there have been so many
13:16different ways and methods and tactics and strategies used. They've been taking black land for centuries.
13:22And so there's power in that. If there wasn't power, we wouldn't have a Tulsa.
13:32Two black ranchers in rural El Paso County say their cries for help and allegations of racism
13:37have been largely ignored by the Sheriff's Office for years. Mallory say after reporting
13:41these incidents to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, they were the ones who ended up in handcuffs.
13:48Farming while black in America! Farming while black in America!
13:52My initial dream has been challenged. America is beautiful for some. It's not as beautiful
14:00for black people.
14:04There are a different set of rules for black landowners than there are for white landowners.
14:11The good white folk of Colorado decided they didn't want them there. They're doing things like
14:17killing 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
14:29my property. And you guys were down there just filming your story?
14:32Why? I mean, we can go on any... No, no, let me be clear. We don't call the police when white people
14:38are driving around the roads, right? When they come and they sat in front of our property today and they
14:43took photographs. But let's be clear about what's happening here. It's white people, right? Because you
14:48have to call these things out for exactly what they are. White people are weaponizing the police on us
14:55because we're black.
15:00We've got a lot of ground to come and get back to them.
15:01Yeah, you're good.
15:02We have to search for all occupants come out of the front door immediately with nothing in your hands.
15:07Watch your guys' back.
15:08Hey!
15:09Land is everything. Land is freedom. Land is food. Land is power.
15:31The 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. And when you try to separate them,
15:50only the worst happens. Over the last century, America's black farmers have lost more than
15:5690% of their land because of 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. I'm founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association,
16:12the baddest black farm organization in the United States.
16:16I need to be able to plant my wheat like everybody else. I need to be able to plant my corn like
16:25everybody else. Somebody here ought to know what I'm talking about today. Get to check out the mail
16:29and give it to them. He's been at the head of a lot of action against the federal government.
16:34The federal government that's supposed to be giving the land up to black farmers was helping
16:38eliminate black farmers by discrimination in this country. And someone asked me the other day,
16:44what would you do to preserve your land? Man, I would die for it.
16:50John Boyd has been fighting one of the most powerful bureaucracies in the nation,
16:54the U.S. Department 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 of our great
17:08nation. USDA is at the core of the land theft and using the laws to steal land from black cowboys
17:17and black farmers in this country. And we all named it the last plantation. During the Civil War,
17:24an institution called the Freedmen's Bureau was created to help formerly enslaved people assimilate.
17:30And it was responsible for dispensing stolen lands to African Americans through special field order
17:41number 15 at 40 acres and a mule. 40 acres and a mule. This is bigger than the music.
17:47When our ancestors were released as slaves, this country promised them 40 acres of land and a mule to each slave.
17:55It's hard to miss the phenomenon called Spike Lee. 80 acres of tilled land.
18:06That's two times 40. That's two times 40. That was the number one goal coming out of slavery. You
18:10wanted to be a landowner. Just before that, black people were considered property. I mean,
18:16imagine if your granddad was a TV and now you own a whole TV company. That's success.
18:22They had the skills to enrich themselves and then they used that money to acquire land. In 40 years,
18:31black people went from owning nothing to owning 20 million acres of land.
18:37The U.S. government promised newly freed black Americans 40 acres and a mule. But that promise was
18:45broken. When the Freedmen's Bureau program was ended, their purpose was folded into the USDA. So the USDA was
18:54in charge of that land. Instead of giving it to the people for whom the Freedmen's Bureau was created,
19:01they gave it to white people.
19:06The 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
19:17out of a t-shirt gun. This is the Cold War to restore America to its own people.
19:27After the Great Depression, FDR comes in and says, I have this radically progressive idea that's going
19:33to funnel money into America. The New Deal was the greatest economic giveaway in the history of the
19:42Western world, which gave away millions of acres of land to white people.
19:51USDA Rural Development supports the American Dream.
19:56It cost a whole lot of money to put plants in the ground and to grow them.
20:01A lot of farmers apply for loans from the federal government every single year, and they get these
20:06from the USDA. Black folks were never able to get the same amount of federal aid as white farmers.
20:16Let us pay $100,000 a year like they do everybody else, instead of having to pay all of it at once.
20:24You're afraid that a majority of blacks could get control of the county.
20:29I'm not afraid of it, because I don't expect to live to see that day.
20:36The white people see this as a threat to their whole way of life.
20:42They were denied at higher rates, they were made to jump through hoops,
20:46and they were penalized if they were, quote-unquote, uppity.
20:51In 1997, the National Black Farmers Association sued the United States Department of Agriculture
20:58for the act of discrimination.
20:59The class action lawsuit that they brought was called Pickford v. Glickman. It was a lawsuit against the USDA.
21:08When white farmers came in, they would process their loans less than 30 days, and for black farmers,
21:14it took 387 days on average.
21:16We were trying to purchase land through the loan process. We were told that black people do not farm.
21:24In the end, they didn't quite get exactly what they wanted.
21:28The vast majority never received a dime from the federal government.
21:32The billions of dollars in federal aid promise to them is on hold.
21:35John Boyd Jr. says he seized the withheld funding, quote,
21:39like the 40 acres and a mule, empty promises to blacks and other farmers of color.
21:44What really happened over the course of history is every single incentive we had
21:50in the federal government, in our banking system, in the fact that black folks had a
21:56200-year handicap in their ability to even possess land.
21:59John Boyd Jr.: Those things all conspired together to end up in this mass dispossession.
22:08I think people should know the term great land robbery.
22:12It is one of the single biggest and most important moments in black history in America.
22:22Booker T. Washington said that since the bulk of our people already have a foundation in agriculture,
22:29they are at their best, living in the country, engaged in agricultural pursuit.
22:39Post-Civil War, the one silver lining that white America didn't really expect is that black
22:44people just never gave up on the South.
22:47We have owned land in North Carolina since just about a decade after the Emancipation
22:52Proclamation was signed. My great-great-great-grandfather is one of the black people who becomes a landowner,
22:58buys land from a white woman. She had a plantation that she could not afford to keep without forced
23:04labor, and so he's able to benefit from the ruins of the Confederacy.
23:10Zen, land ownership is your future.
23:15Being a kid and being on land that your family owns is so freeing. I got married on that land,
23:21I hope that my son gets married on that land, and that there are so many celebrations to come on it.
23:27Our ancestors literally bled, sweated, cried on that soil, and now we can be victorious,
23:34we can laugh, we can be joyful, we can be in love on that same land. And what a full-circle moment to be
23:40a part of to be the generation that gets the look back.
23:56We're sitting on some really good ground.
24:02We 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
24:11that runs right here through Butler. The boat pretty much led us off here,
24:17and this is where we end up staying.
24:22That history is a reason why I'm really trying to build generational wealth here.
24:27When 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 $100,000 to well over seven figures. And so,
24:44when black people don't have land, whether that's a home, whether that's a farm, whether that's a
24:49business to pass on, we are missing out on crucial parts of building generational wealth.
24:55And so we're just forever trading in our work for an hourly wage.
25:01My name is Kimberly Ratcliffe. I am a cowgirl. I am also manager of Caney Creek Ranch and owner
25:08of Ratcliffe Premium Meats. So it's 10 pounds of flank steak. Then we have the rack of lambs.
25:14Then we have those three...
25:15Accumulating land, 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,
25:31but he also wanted to operate it. So in order to operate it, he realized he had to go into corporate
25:36America's job to actually afford to operate land. So my dad's job took us to New York.
25:44I worked for a major computer company, International Business Machines. I managed the plant for IBM in Brooklyn.
25:54I 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. And I was driving by the location
26:09where I am now, and I saw a sign out there. And 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.
26:21I've been calling it the great return because it is often black people in these great migration
26:26destination cities like Chicago, Newark, New York, Oakland, who are returning to rural southern and
26:32midwestern roots. But now they have economic means, political power, and so they're coming back to the
26:38south with a lot more resources than when they left. When I was in New York, I worked for Bloomberg
26:45Financial, and I realized there was a huge disconnect, mainly because of the food system.
26:52I don't think they understood what it really took to grow our food.
26:58But 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,
27:07I wanted to connect myself back to where everything was grown and pretty much where my family's roots were.
27:20So I have my livestock company, which just buys all the livestock. And then I have the meat processing
27:25company that then processes the livestock. Then I have my cold storage company. Then I have my marketing
27:32company and then I have the distribution. And that nonprofit side takes all these producers that I'm
27:38working with on a daily basis and making sure they can grow. Oh yeah, it's done.
27:44I think we're at a point now where we're tired of superficial things. All that's going to fade away
27:51eventually, but that land's going to be there.
27:56Leaving New York was not an easy choice, but I felt I had to to keep this family land together.
28:03When I came here, I was bombarded with people saying, hey, I want to get the next generation. I want to get my
28:08kids and stuff to do what you did, to come back to the ranch. And I can see the same story for you.
28:13Yeah.
28:14We 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
28:23nothing wrong with talking about it. But we also need to talk about the beautiful things that are
28:27happening in this community and say, hey, we're not doing that anymore. We're building such a beautiful
28:31community now. Come back. For many of us, we respond to the trauma of slavery by rejecting
28:39anything agricultural. But Afro-pastoralism is about honoring the fact that our history does not
28:45begin or end with slavery. That before we were forced laborers on the American continent, we were
28:51chosen stewards on the African continent. And we loved land. We grew things because it fed us,
28:56because it healed us, because it was a thing that we've done since the beginning of time.
29:01All right, man. Hey, see my babies.
29:06Okay, so I'm super excited, because we just mapped out what we're going to do with my land here.
29:09Get to use the lake for irrigation, which is dope, super sustainable.
29:15Do you hear that? They're literally talking to each other.
29:17It's a cow saying.
29:18Ah. Antonio Enrique Cortes Leche.
29:22Serena. That's the name of the cow.
29:24So I let the kids do the name, man.
29:25And you just call it Leche.
29:26I want them on a football field. I'm just trying to get from point A to point B as fast as possible.
29:32Right. You know, but here in the farm, I'm a little bit more gentle.
29:35You got to have your knees bent.
29:37I think I might 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.
29:46I'd much rather learn how to be fruitful off the land, and that's the real wealth.
29:50I 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.
30:01Okay. Enjoy the 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,
30:23free to be our own entrepreneurs, free to grow and prosper.
30:27I appreciate everyone for coming out tonight.
30:29I made these phone calls, and not one of you guys said no.
30:34Uh, I had an old uncle, old Uncle George. Uncle George had been a slave.
30:40And when I met Uncle George, he was 102 years old.
30:42He said, whatever you do, young fella, don't give up.
30:47And I've listened to that. I don't give up.
30:51We cannot get rid of that history. That history needs to be here.
30:55That is my ultimate goal, is for this land to be in my family long after I'm gone.
31:02The history of our land was what made it so special.
31:26Great great grandfather is buried in our family cemetery.
31:28It is a beautiful place. It is a contemplative place.
31:34It's a place where I will spend the rest of my existence as ashes on this planet and in this realm.
31:42Daniel Alexander is there by the cactus.
31:45His tombstone is basically a tombstone-shaped rock.
31:49According to the records, he's been here since 1883.
31:55We are close to the oldest black farm in Travis County and in Austin.
32:00Plenty of people came from farms who are black.
32:03We are still farmers, and we're black.
32:07I used to get the milk for the family cereal. You didn't notice, Julia, did you?
32:12We picked cotton for our grandfather, you know. We hauled hay and did that back, you know, way back.
32:20That's what I've done my whole life.
32:23The thing I love most about in the open land is that it is so peaceful.
32:26In 1968, the Texas government took acreage from our farm for the expansion of US 183.
32:38That 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.
32:59If the federal government or local governments ever decided to take
33:03private white citizens' property for the purpose of a park, a lake, a highway, there would be riots.
33:10Similar actions have been taken on our land in 1937 and 1926 before it.
33:17That 37 expansion created several lots that are overrun with all sorts of environmentally toxic
33:24businesses, businesses that threaten and spoil our groundwater and our air and our soil.
33:30When the water is unclean, it's like, okay, well, we'll have the Flint residents drink that.
33:34You know, when it's time to build a new dump, it's like, let's put that in black people's backyard.
33:38As a result of a drainage issue, the developer on two sides of us flooded our cemetery under three
33:47and a half to four feet of water. The tombstones tilted more. We cannot, without risking the
33:54brittleness of the tombstones, correct them. The highway also split a portion of grandfather's land
34:02so that the edge on the other side was useless to him. So it was gone too.
34:10Part of Central Park was a multiracial but predominantly black neighborhood called Seneca
34:15Village. The land we're standing on is Seneca Village and they were evicted and bulldozed so
34:21they could build this park. Eminent domain is used to take Seneca Village and make it into this beautiful
34:27Central Park. And there's just a tiny plaque in one of the entrances that honors it. And we
34:31almost never tell the story. The Ford case, where they want to build this blue Ford dealership,
34:40this massive plant in western Tennessee. When they had other means to get to this plant,
34:45easier routes, they took black land.
34:54Our country has let us down as black landowners.
34:58It's part of the entire development strategy that happened in just about any urban area in this country.
35:10In 2019, TxDOT approached us about a potential expansion. We fought back by stakeholder meetings
35:17first with TxDOT. We also fought back with lobbying. They've since put it on a sort of a, what they call,
35:24a pause. And we were advised that the pause would result in other routes being explored.
35:33This is all the farm. This is us.
35:39And they actually took a part of it to make a road.
35:42How dare they? We will stop this now.
35:49We will stop this now.
35:54We'll get it done.
35:54We are here at the Boyd's farm in, in Virginia, celebrating the victory that Mr. John Boyd got farmers.
36:08Shit, they've, they've been in everything. Part of me continuing my fight is because of John Boyd and, and Kara Boyd.
36:23My husband, John Boyd, is a civil rights activist. Kara Boyd is a social justice warrior.
36:38I'm the founder and president of the Association of American Indian Farmers, and I'm a cowgirl.
36:42The American myth of the cowboys has never set well with me. The Native Americans were never the winners. They 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, but also
37:08for the land and advocating for these farmers who didn't have a voice to speak for themselves.
37:15Get it!
37:17Ready for dinner. All right. This dinner sums up what the definition of freedom is, because the federal
37:23government for the first time in history sent black farmers two billion dollars in this country.
37:31Well, after years of discrimination, the USDA is giving black and other minority farmers
37:37two billion dollars. Black and minority farmers will begin receiving discrimination relief payments
37:43from the USDA after years of bias in the agency's farm loan program. Now, this financial assistance is
37:49not compensation for anyone's loss or the pain endured, but it is an acknowledgement by the department.
37:57Think of what that payment did for needy black farmers who've been told the whole damn life,
38:02you can't get nothing, you can't get a loan. That is the pain and part of the ammunition
38:09that 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 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 powerful
38:49for us to be sitting here amongst history and other black farmers that are fighting this good fight.
38:56And while you guys have started this, you know, we got to continue on and make sure that this torch
39:00is passed down. This settlement means that black farmers have the option now of passing on
39:08generational wealth. Hey, look, can we get a good photo over here? Yeah. Yes.
39:12I see it as a huge win for black cowboys. I see it as the biggest victory since the Civil Rights Act.
39:35Black lives matter! Black lives matter! Black lives matter!
39:40Far outside is Black Lives Matter.
39:50Meet one of the most high profile horses in North Texas.
39:54Name Black Lives Matter. Last month, they won their first race. They say the best part is hearing
39:58the name called over the intercom. And that's where the, um, that's where the
40:05shit hit the fan at right there. The cultural heist is probably the most lucrative part of the theft of
40:13the cowboy. We're just talking about being allowed to celebrate our music without bringing in outside
40:20sources that really aren't a part of that genre. Country music is Black music. How dare these people
40:28close that genre off to us?
40:39Like, they just want to know the dashboard? What is it, you can do with us?
40:44Like the YouTub3, the Prince. Is a place to embrace a sort of character in the back?
40:46Like theifieought tree. Have a good job, you can do that.
40:49And for sure you see the next one, here is the page in the back of the map.
40:52Alright, that's what I mean.
40:53Yeah.
40:55You could do it, I can do it, I can do it.
40:57It's a couple days later.
40:58You're starting to see the thing.
40:59You don't know what's going on.
41:00You should see it, like the whole thing.
41:02You're never thinking.
41:03I don't know what you're going on.
41:04You can do it.
41:05What are you doing?
41:06You can do it.
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