Fighting for Food and Racial Justice
28th September 2019
Brattleboro is a small town (about 12k people) in Vermont, one of the whitest states in the U.S. There are only about 5,000 Africans in the entire state, so there’s a good chance that a significant portion of the African population in the state consists of college students at Dartmouth and other educational institutions that need African students for affirmative action purposes.
I suspect that one does not travel to Vermont if one prefers living around black people. There was a time, of course, when there were a lot of black farmers — they were called ‘sharecroppers’ and they did not have enviable lives.