Black Farmers View Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Essential

Black Agriculture Summit 2010
Elihu Harris State Building Auditorium
1515 Clay Street
Oakland, California
Free Community Forum
1:00 p.m. ~ 4:30 p.m.

Centuries of systemic institutional discrimination, essential to establishing America's Agriculture global dominance was fueled by the Trans~Atlantic Slave Trade.

Wall Street reform may slowly create a path toward equity and equal opportunity allowing new U.S. Agriculture Public Policy priorities and objectives. America's Last Plantation, the USDA will play a leading role in establishing rule making authority for new ethnic speciality crops, essential commodities to end hunger globally.

Oakland, CA (July 14, 2010) ~ While preparing the kick-off event for the Hand to Hand Marketing Black Expo, Black Agriculture Summit at the Elihu Harris State Building Auditorum right behind Oakland City Hall, a Council Committee approved legislation that would allow four commercial medical marijuana-growing operations.

The council's Public Safety Committee voted 3-to-1 Tuesday night making Oakland the first city in the nation to license wholesale pot cultivation, will Black Agriculture producers have the opportunity to participate providing a service to Black consumers?

Marijuana is the #1 Agriculture Cash Crop in America with well over 36 billion dollars in economic impact on our national GDP, yet an adult converation of the far reaching impact on the U.S. agriculture related industries mandates and updated USDA official study.

The notion of establishing a Marijuana Derivative Market, utilizing fixed levels of regulated standardized potency certified organic and weight and measure consumer protection should allow a renaissance for Black Agriculture producers to service a community with epidemic levels of diet related disease in need of an alternative medical methodology specific to the condition being treated.

Official USDA Marijuana Farms deep in the Mississippi Delta cultivate a unique speciality crop in some of the most fertile soil in America.

In 1920, when the Honorable Marcus Garvey elevated the economic conversation globally for people of African ancestry, Black Agriculture producers were nearly 15% of all U.S. Agriculture producers, today we are less than 1%.

Pending Pigford II Federal Legislation is tucked safely within Stimulus II package making it's way through congressional negoitions.

Black Agriculture celebrates Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection as a welcomed breathe of fresh air that may create a more level playing field in financial markets and potientally a level opportunity for production of new commodities of ethnic speciality crops.
During the U.S. Civil War, when President Lincoln and his administration planned a strategy to win the war and a process to transition "free agriculture labor" provided by the orginial stock, enslaved Africans, a 1862 the notion of a United States Department of Agriculture came into existence.

Today, many programs and policies are predicated upon the original 1862 notion of systemic institutional racism thus it is often impossible to embrace the reality of equity and equal opportunity.

The Black Agriculture Summit 2010 is proud to stand in solidarity with an amazing array of financial, agriculture and commerical industry leaders who celebrate passage of Wall Street Reform and Consumer Credit legislation as we celebrate an African Renaissance, Golden Jubilee.