Another great example of multi-ethnic coalitions: the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (1934-1960), founded in Tyronza, Arkansas.
In 1934, there were ~8 million sharecroppers working farmland owned by a landlord. About a third were Black.
So when the STFU (yes, really 😉) began organizing...
In 1934, there were ~8 million sharecroppers working farmland owned by a landlord. About a third were Black.
So when the STFU (yes, really 😉) began organizing...
You in fact can't talk about the history of the labor movement without talking about multi-ethnic coalitions. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was initially composed of Jewish and Italian immigrants, but later grew to Black, Puerto Rican, Chinese, and Filipino workers.
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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LOL- he's a landlord to corporate sharecroppers.
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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They published newsletters, cooperated with other labor unions and socialist organizations across the racial divide.
Membership swelled across the Black Belt to a peak of 35,000 tenant farmers. A force to be reckoned with!
They spread to larger cities, where racial tensions were more acute...
Membership swelled across the Black Belt to a peak of 35,000 tenant farmers. A force to be reckoned with!
They spread to larger cities, where racial tensions were more acute...
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Iowa farmers are largely corn and soybeans and receive subsidies for those crops directly. The size of dairy farms varies widely by state, Tyson outsources the risk of raising the chickens to farmers who are effectively sharecroppers, & to explain the emerging probs in beef is a dissertation
I think we might need to get a little sharper about class analysis in "rural" states. Iowa farmers (mostly millionaire landowners) =/= farm workers =/= John Deere Dealers =/= small town service sector =/= public sector =/= Des Moines normal white collar. I can imagine fractures in that formation.
Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.
October 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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I'm in my mid-30s now, and I remember thinking that my grandparents were rather aged in their 60s. They had a hard life as sharecroppers, and later as the first Black landowners / farmers in the region. It was back-breaking work with limited access to healthcare or time to recuperate from injuries.
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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He rents to sharecroppers.
October 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Which is how to flip farmers against Republicans. Not by shaming them for bailouts.
Just explain that billionaires want to turn them into sharecroppers
Just explain that billionaires want to turn them into sharecroppers
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Does he have sharecroppers?
I bet Bessent runs a company store for them.
I bet Bessent runs a company store for them.
October 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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He says this cuz he is landlord to sharecroppers growing soy or he owns stock in a big ag corporation?
October 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Bessent epitomizes the goal of the effect of tariffs on soybeans:
Force the small farmer into bankruptcy;
Buy the land at a discount;
Farmers become sharecroppers, holding ALL the downside risk;
Oligarchs profit like the land barons they’ve become.
THAT’S why Bessent supports tariffs.
Force the small farmer into bankruptcy;
Buy the land at a discount;
Farmers become sharecroppers, holding ALL the downside risk;
Oligarchs profit like the land barons they’ve become.
THAT’S why Bessent supports tariffs.
October 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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He owns thousands of acres that he leases to farmers, a landowner with sharecroppers if you will.
And there's people who still think socialism is the boogeyman
And there's people who still think socialism is the boogeyman
Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."
October 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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He's a hedge-fund landlord to soy sharecroppers. Same as Alden's CEO is actually a journalist.
Bessent on American farmers being hurt by tariffs: "Martha, in case you don't know it, I'm actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain too."
October 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Hope yall have the best show!!! mama loves y’all & is having fomo!!!!!!!💖
October 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Here’s another one naming Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Nancy Cunard, and @janefonda.com as Communism propagandists.
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I almost want to post verbatim the absolute hysterical nonsense someone posted in response to me agreeing with another person who made a similar point about sharecroppers in 1962 and white liberals in 2025
Yeah absolutely. It takes more courage to protest in Mobile than it does in Manhattan
October 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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You have to compare online donations from single mothers waiting tables vs black southern sharecroppers adjusted for PPP, which gives you the Real Activism Index (RAI.)
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Protest is over, none can ever beat the Civil Rights Movement because there aren't sharecroppers giving the last dime anymore, go home and despair, the peak has been reached
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I come from Georgia sharecroppers, but I don't think any of them except one great-grandfather ran shine. Some of them were probably customers, though. None of them licked any boots.
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Correct. The lack of historical knowledge is astounding. Sharecroppers were barely above slaves and putting a dime in was one) a huge risk to take - landowner might take offense and fire you and two) a huge financial commitment. Folks need to stop messing with @angryblacklady.blacksky.app
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The POS below 😠 is one of the "kids" 🤬 that
despicable Trogloydyte is referring too (btw...inbreeding is REAL & the consequences are...DETRIMENTAL 🤬) These are the DIRECT descendants of slave plantation overseers (NOT OWNERS) and White Sharecroppers who got PAID after Reconstruction was demolished 😠
despicable Trogloydyte is referring too (btw...inbreeding is REAL & the consequences are...DETRIMENTAL 🤬) These are the DIRECT descendants of slave plantation overseers (NOT OWNERS) and White Sharecroppers who got PAID after Reconstruction was demolished 😠
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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By design; let the land grab begin! Those farmers will be lucky if they'll be allowed to become sharecroppers on their former land (if the billionaires decide to not build AI date centers).
October 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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If they are lucky, they'll get to become sharecroppers on their former properties (if the new owners don't build AI data centers on the land).
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Bessent is sending $20 billion dollars to Argentina to bail out billionaire hedge funds friends. For farmers who voted for Trump and are going bankrupt, the hedge funds will give you 10 cents on the dollar and let you work as sharecroppers.
October 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I cannot find that picture of them two folks that went to that party dressed like sharecroppers on the twitter. They got clowned all night long
October 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Absolutely. Accepting the surrender of the Confederate soldiers dumb enough to fight for the right to be penniless sharecroppers was a mistake. Accepting the surrender of the plantation owners who played them for fools was a cardinal sin.
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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