https://youtu.be/VHvqgqV838Q

Steven Crowder, a so-call “conservative comedian” who hosts a daily podcast, and three of his white male co-hosts who obviously have never stepped foot on a farm, had a horrifically racist rant about minority farmers.  First claiming he didn’t know any–therefore, obviously, they don’t exist–Crowder deride a $5 billion aid program aimed at helping Black, Hispanic, Native Americans and other minority farmers who have traditionally been discriminated against in federal aid programs.  After Crowder demonstrates his poor math skills–claiming that 1965 was “a hundred years ago”–he and his buddies go on their bigoted screed.

Among the comments:  Where did they find so many Black farmers?  The Black farmers planted “Hennessey trees” but could make money because they only planted “VSOP” varieties, not “XO.”  Black farmers should “ruin cities” by planting urban farms, but they ground is too contaminated with meth.

In fact, there were more than one million Black farmers in 1900, but because of the lack of aid, that number has shrunk to 45,000 today, out of more than three million farmers in the US; over the last century, Black families were forced off farm land through scams and Jim Crow laws in the South.  Even though they account for just 1.5% of farmers, they farm 14% of the agricultural land in the US.  Also, more than 100,000 Hispanic farmers, accounting for about 3.3% of acreage farmed.

Crowder’s known for being utterly stupid.  Last week, he performed a stunt where he dressed up in drag and went to exercise at a Planet Fitness gym–apparently trying to show people would look at him oddly or something.  When no one really gave a damn, he started dropping dumbbells to draw attention to himself, an act that got him thrown out of the gym and barred from local Planet Fitness locations.