In a stunning turn of events, Democrats completely swept state control in Georgia, ousting the Republicans who have ruled for decades. Amongst those elected was Katherine Juhan-Arnold, who managed to oust Tyler Harper for the role of Georgia agriculture commissioner. She has been recorded on tape vowing to discriminate in favor of black farmers with state subsidies.
Juhan-Arnold, a radical, is the first African-American woman ever elected to leadership of the Georgia Department of Agriculture. That department is the oldest state department of agriculture in America, and is hugely important, as it oversees the general agricultural and food industry, the top business sector in the state of Georgia.
In fact, the agency regulates all of the sector that contributes approximately $91.4 billion annually to Georgia’s economy, including regulation of everything connected to agribusiness, food safety inspections, animal health, consumer protection, and even fuel pump calibration across all 159 counties in the state. That sector provides nearly 382,00 jobs.
Now, she aims on using it to discriminate, as she explained during an appearance on the podcast Conversate with Killer Mike. That was Episode 64, titled “Who Controls Georgia’s Food?” In it, she said, “There, we have the budget to allocate funds for our black farmers, for our beginning farmers, for people who have a disconnect.”
Continuing with a personal story that was meant to support the discrimination plan as “Killer Mike” kept interrupting to say “yes, ma’am”, she said, “Like I was telling about Richland, Georgia…My great great grandmother, she had land down there. I didn’t know about it until I started farming. It got caught up in heirs’ property, and it’s sold now.”
Heir’s property, for reference, is a problem resulting from a lack of death planning on behalf of a deceased owner in which the property is jointly held by a number of heirs as tenants-in-common, which can be a tricky situation to get out of without selling the property, particularly if the heirs disagree over towards what use it should be put.
She then rambled a bit about “re-education,” failing to get back to how or why she would use state funds to discriminate in favor of black farmers, or what that would look like, other than in terms of “resources” for the “community.” She said, “So we…the re-education piece…We have to dedicate resources to re-educate our community, so they understand what to do.”
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Predictably, she got absolutely scorched online. The famous End Wokeness, for example, wrote on X: “Georgia’s new Agriculture Secretary plans to direct state funds to black farmers for being black. Buckle up, Georgia. DEI is coming.”
Similarly, Gunther Eagleman wrote, in a quote tweet of the End Wokeness post, “The state’s new Agriculture Commissioner already said the quiet part out loud. Katherine Juhan-Arnold, October 7: ‘We have the budget to allocate funds for our Black farmers.’ Not farmers in need. Farmers of one race. Georgia families did not vote for a state agency that sorts people by skin color. They voted for cheaper food and help for every farmer. This will end up in court.”
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