"He owes us an apology."

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) said a lot of wild things during his Sunday morning media blitz. But one of his comments has received far less attention than the others: Vance described a federal program that has distributed nearly $2 billion to mostly Black farmers who experienced discrimination as “disgraceful,” suggesting that it is racist against white people.

And now, the head of the largest group of Black farmers across the country is condemning Vance’s assertions.

“He owes us an apology,” John Boyd, Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told me. The remarks, Boyd added, were “disgraceful, deplorable, dumb, degrading, and disrespectful to the nation’s Black farmers, the oldest occupation in history for Black people.”

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    A spokesperson for Vance also did not respond to questions from *Mother Jones *beyond requesting that we include the senator’s full remarks . . .

    I frankly think that unfortunately, a lot of people on the left have leaned into this by trying to categorize people by skin color . . . All farmers, we want to thrive, and that’s certainly the President Trump and JD Vance view of the situation.

    Ruh roh, Rhaggy! If you’re putting out statements putting yourself on-peer with Donny Two Scoops . . . that’s a paddlin’.

    Somebody’s gonna be receiving a burnt ketchup steak frisbee soon.