Sentences with phrase «white farmers»

After all, about 75,000 hectares of productive land was owned by white farmers who make up only 1.5 percent of the population.

Other, more compliant, judges were awarded the farms which had been taken away from white farmers.

Hang your head in shame for your support by implication of the murders of white farmers in this country and demonising the only people who try to do something regarding it.

The film tells a long - forgotten, true story of poor white farmers and runaway slaves in Mississippi who rebel against the Confederacy after soldiers steal their livestock, crops and forcibly conscript boys as young as 12 into military service.

From 1981 to 1983 they carried out dissident armed attacks against government property and supporters and white farmers in that area.

But as his Robin Hood - like band of impoverished white farmers and runaway slaves grows, Newt starts a war within a war, and employs questionable tactics to accomplish noble ends.

Our founding parents were pompous middle - aged white farmers, but they were also gret men, ebcause they knew one thing that all great men should know: that they didn't know everything.

What happened in America's big cities between say 1890 and 1950 that no democratic socialist movement gained nationwide traction, and that the industrial working class, in the northern cities, came to depend on the Democratic party, which had totally different origins among southern white farmers, and which contained a strong segregationist instinct?

The result - to the horror of the international community - was a reign of terror, as gangs of «war veterans» attacked and dispossessed white farmers and their black workers.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has called on the country's remaining white farmers to cede land to black people.

Ed Davey, the former energy secretary, said the proposed sell - off was a «completely ridiculous policy» and compared it to the Zimbabwe president's fast - track reform, which led to predominantly white farmers being forced off their land, often violently and without compensation.

The most significant emblem in «Mudbound,» a tense, immersive drama set on a 1940s Mississippi farm (available on Netflix starting Friday) is a person, not an object: Henry (Jason Clarke), a struggling white farmer.

When a rumor spread that «Big Rob» had confessed to the crime, a group of white farmers stormed the county jail and, according to one witness, shot Edwards as he cowered in his cell, then bashed in his skull with crowbars.

He enlisted the so - called war veterans who attacked white farmers killing many in a campaign purportedly aimed at land reform.

Among the destinations in his passport: the Amazon after reports of pirates; Belfast after 1998 elections; Turkey after Istanbul bombings in 1999 and 2000; Zimbabwe after a dispute over white farmers.

Much of the reserve land had been leased to white farmers after 1921.

The only aspect of the Shirley Sherrod controversy that I find interesting is related to a phrase she used in explaining her dealings with the poor white farmer.

Set in rural Mississippi before, during, and after WWII, the film inspects the lives of white farmers and black sharecroppers whose lives clash when their respective sons return from war.

In many parts of Georgia, where the white farmers sometimes live two or three miles apart, a birthday will be celebrated by a barbecue, or a few families will join together in friendly communion, with a roasting hog or sheep in the centre.

Even in the wire - grass country, where possibly the white farmers live two or three miles apart, a half - dozen families will get together on a holiday, or some one's birthday, perhaps, kill a sheep or a pig, and have a barbecue.

Thousands of white farmers were forced out.

Messina also reportedly praised the administration's firing of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod after a tape surfaced of her allegedly discriminating against a white farmer, even though Secretary Tom Vilsack had dismissed her before learning that right - wing blogger Andrew Breitbart had doctored the footage.

Washington (CNN)-- The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about discriminating against a white farmer looking for her assistance.

The white farmers union said it was regrettable that racial tensions were flaring up again.

A former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister has likened the Conservative government's plan to sell off housing association homes with Robert Mugabe's seizure of white farmers» land in Zimbabwe.

Set in hard - times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land.

Silvia, Ms. Kidman's character, may have a European education, but her roots are in the troubled (and fictional) African nation of Matobo, where her parents were white farmers.

For Henry McAllan (Jason Clarke), a poor white farmer, more dogged than bright, the mud is something to be fought with and conquered; only then can he look upon the countryside as a thing of loveliness.

One day another white farmer, Harry March (Ewen Leslie), arrives and introduces himself; he needs help on his station nearby.

The McAllans are white farmers; the Jacksons are black sharecroppers.

It tells the true story of a white farmer who led a rebellion against the confederacy with the help of other farmers and local slaves.

She and her cousins swapped stories about shelling peas on her aunt's screened - in porch, how dark it got at night before the city installed street lights, and what forced her family to flee — her sharecropper father's refusal to back down during a dispute with a white farmer, and the lynch mob that threatened to take his life.

The white farmers and townspeople who remain would shun you for daring to say it, but in large stretches of the prairie it's beginning to look like European agricultural settlement is a completed chapter of history.»