Mystrix Noire on Spoutible

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I remember this & my family discussing the Black dairy farmers we knew...

I sometimes want white people to experience, just for a moment, the constant restraint Black Americans, particularly American Freedmen, exercise when engaging with them on even the seemingly most benign topics.

A retweet by Michael Harriot that reads:
Fun fact:
To help propel white dairy farmers into the middle class, the US govt bought a billion lbs of cheese & stored it in bunkers. By the 80s, refrigeration costs were HUGE. So the Reagan admin had an idea:
Let's give it to poor pol
And that's how we got government cheese.
Tweet being responded to reads:
Gravy Crockett @BostonJerry• 2d
The price of eggs was fixed. It was not "supply chain issues" or "increased costs due to inflation."
Every major egg producer worked together to fix prices, gouge consumers, and massively increas...

11:31 AM - Nov 24, 2023

Mystrix Noire

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Diminishing it to a "fun fact",

rather than the moment in time symbolizing the final erasure of American Freedmen (& Native I believe) dairy farmers, most of whom had more humane/environmentally friendly practices,

so white people are more likely to accept the info, is...

history.com

How the US Ended Up With Warehouses Full of 'Government Cheese' | HISTORY

In the early 1980s, the U.S. government distributed some 300 million pounds of pungent-smelling processed cheese that had been produced with federal funds.

11:31 AM - Nov 24, 2023