ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agoMy dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACPwww.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1188arrow-down19cross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.world
arrow-up1179arrow-down1external-linkMy dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACPwww.motherjones.comZeroCool@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square26fedilinkcross-posted to: nottheonion@lemmy.world
minus-squareathos77@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up57arrow-down1·9 months agoThere were landowners who were abusive to their tenant farmers, or her dad could even have grown up in a sharecropper family. You know what eventually ended sharecropping and tenant farmers? FDR’s New Deal. She should study history more.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34arrow-down1·9 months agoThe paper speculated that they were tenant farmers. And maybe they were abused tenant farmers. But do you know what tenant farmers could do? Leave.
There were landowners who were abusive to their tenant farmers, or her dad could even have grown up in a sharecropper family. You know what eventually ended sharecropping and tenant farmers? FDR’s New Deal. She should study history more.
The paper speculated that they were tenant farmers. And maybe they were abused tenant farmers. But do you know what tenant farmers could do?
Leave.