White nationalist (Richard Spencer) gets his money from cotton fields and the government

[Starry Messenger]

Wow! Great article, very revealing. Economic anxiety, my ass.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/white-nationalist-gets-his-money-from-cotton-fields-and-the-government/

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The exchange grew heated as host Roland Martin questioned Spencer’s rhetoric: Didn’t slaves help build America? Wasn’t the nation’s 19th-century economic boom propelled by the slave labor that produced the world’s cotton on Southern plantations?

America’s rise was “not through black people” and “has nothing to do with slavery,” Spencer retorted. “White people could have figured out another way to pick cotton,” he said. “We do it now.”

He is in a position to know. Spencer, along with his mother and sister, are absentee landlords of 5,200 acres of cotton and corn fields in an impoverished, largely African American region of Louisiana, according to records examined by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. The farms, controlled by multiple family-owned businesses, are worth millions: A 1,600-acre parcel sold for $4.3 million in 2012.

The Spencer family’s farms also are subsidized heavily by the federal government. From 2008 through 2015, the Spencers received $2 million in U.S. farm subsidy payments, according to federal data.

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[MFM008]

1. KKK investing in cotton fields

perfect.

[Starry Messenger]

8. Right?

I had to check to see if it was from a satire site.

[Solly Mack]

2. Vile person. Simply vile.

[shenmue]

5. Yes

[Solly Mack]

6. I know the saying goes it takes all kinds/sorts but it really doesn't

because they are some sorts the world could do without quite well.

[shenmue]

7. Indeed

[ck4829]

3. So, he's turned his denial of his privilege into his cause

[muntrv]

4. Slaveowner mentality.