Rice in South Carolina is deeply political. Rice in South Carolina is Black. Exploited Black labor revolutionized rice cultivation in the South and made many white families obscenely wealthy. They’re still getting rich off (some of) us. Some of y’all is complicit. Tweet added by Mika Gadsden @mikagadsden

Mika Gadsden

3 years

Rice in South Carolina is deeply political. Rice in South Carolina is Black. Exploited Black labor revolutionized rice cultivation in the South and made many white families obscenely wealthy. They’re still getting rich off (some of) us. Some of y’all is complicit.

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TellMeMo

@AgrarianLeads

3 years

@mikagadsden Tell us more

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@QuincyAbrams

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@mikagadsden 💯 saw they briefly touched on this in high on the hog netflix doc

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Alicia Diamond

@comradcudlbunny

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@mikagadsden Not to mention how The Clinton administration forced Haiti to import rice from the south and decimated there economy and agricultural ecology.

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