Another thing I decided to read into a bit, and while this article is from the historically racist and evil Guardian Newspaper, it tells the struggle of Wes Boyd II, who suffered actual people being dickheads in the USDA and won a big case on it,
right here.
TLDR of it is, around 1 million blacks owned various small holdings and farms in 1920, but a combination of low literacy rates, denial to finance and not affording lawyers to write wills, means this has been whickered down to about 45,000. With no will, farms would be divided up among the children/remaining families, so a 10 acre plot would become 5, two acre plots which could be snapped up at bargain basement prices by other farmers.
Even today, black farms are around 1/4 of the size of their white equivalents. The
average is 443 acres per farm, and considering the ridiculous size of the giga farms in places like Iowa, it's likely the smaller farmers (such as the blacks) dragging it waayyyyy the fuck down.
So, as retarded as the segregated garden area is, it actually makes a valid point.