A link to an interesting perspective on the Future Farmers of America

I have been amazed at the efforts of the Future Farmers of America to stay relevant in todays idiotic world. I was at the Willamette Valley Ag Show this week and was impressed at the number of FFA members who were involved with the show. Of course everything depends on your local advisor and some are incredible and some are completely worthless.

However, the National FFA organization seems to have understood that it is more than just "cows and plows," as the pathetic nerds at National Honor Society like to say, as they hug each other and frolic with rainbow flags.

And therein is the  issue. I suspect FFA has become a refuge for students who need to escape the bullshite of modern high school life.

There are two ways to look at that idea.

Mother Jones has found the last bastion of non doucheness left in America and they are exposing it...

CLICK here to see how the Future Farmers of America are a bunch of racist colonialist homophobes. (Thanks to my nameless buddy for texting me the link hoping to provoke an "intelligent discussion)

Also, if I were advising a young person of color... I would encourage them to join FFA. My observation is that you actually learn useful life skills. Skills which are not taught in public school. Like, how to run a business, public speaking, how to run a meeting, how to suffer in a dorky uniform in hot weather, how to talk to old people, how to put up with girls taking all the leadership positions, and if you are a kid with brown or black skin, how to win a place in society based on merit. 

But, what do I know? I am just a racist, inappropriate, insincere, and sarcastic old fart...

Also... I would really like to know why the percentage of farmers in the USA who are black went from something like 14% to a current rate of 2%. I can tell you the liberal bullshite interpretation of why this happened but I am betting there are correlations with declining farmer numbers in other areas. I am of course looking for support for my theory of megalomaniac family farming but do not want to give any support to other groups that I don't like. My world is a schizophrenic world, but at least I am never alone.