Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)Ā said a lot of wild thingsĀ during his Sunday morning media blitz. But one of his comments has received far less attention than the others: Vance described a federal program that hasĀ distributedĀ nearly $2 billion to mostly Black farmers who experienced discrimination as ādisgraceful,ā suggesting that it is racist against white people.
And now, the head of the largest group of Black farmers across the country is condemning Vanceās assertions.
āHe owes us an apology,āĀ John Boyd, Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told me. The remarks, Boyd added, were ādisgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful to the nationās Black farmers, the oldest occupation in history for Black people.ā
Correct. JD Vance said a thing on Sunday. The founder of the National Black Farmers Association responded. Mother Jones then wrote an article about it on Friday. This is a fairly standard sequence of events for the news. Except, of course, in that old tv show, Early Edition, about the guy whoād get tomorrowās newspaper today and then have to prevent some tragedy from happening in every episode.
Given that they were closer to the Sunday happening in roughly 3-7 hours from now than the Sunday in question, I think itād have been handy to say ālast Sundayā. Yes, that is the obvious conclusion, but when talking about the trump campaign itās better to be clear because the most bizarre story or quote has a pretty good chance of being true.
A āfairly standard sequenceā would be to have written it last Monday, but apparently the head of the NBFA replied only . . . what, Friday the 16th? It doesnāt say. It says he ātold meā, and thatās it.
If you donāt understand that an article written on Friday, which refers to an event on āSundayā without any additional qualifiers, is always going to be referring to the most recent Sunday and not the futureā¦ Then I donāt know what to tell you, this isnāt rocket science.
I thought they may have meant Friday. Or any of the other five days since. Yāknow, a Sunday barnstorm of Meet the Twaddle is customary, but - what, do they tape it a day ahead? Why would they write an article so late about it?
You just normally see an article about a Sunday press appearance earlier than Saturday. And for whatever reason, probably in large part because I make efforts to avoid that 1950ās excruciatingly overwrought political theatre brought to us by the makers of Parliament cigarettes, I didnāt see anything else about his predictably awful interviews.
Sorry to bother you.
Holy shit dude. For the last time, the article is about the founder of the National Black Farmer Associationās comments regarding what JD Vance said. Thatās why it was written on Friday. Vanceās comments were from Sunday. Then the NBFAās founder spoke out about it days later. I literally cannot dumb this down for you any more than I already have.
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