The idea of running a farm and striving to sustain one’s life and support one’s family seems innocent and reasonable enough for someone willing to enter the realm of agriculture until specific sociocultural, political, and legal factors affecting one’s success. In “The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2,” the narrator addresses the problem of barbaric loans that strip farmers of the opportunity to provide for their families, as well as the deeply rooted cultural prejudices that border racial profiling and prevent African American farmers from obtaining any profits from their efforts.
Diving deeper into the experiences of people facing the current system of farm loans, one will realize that there is a propensity toward the discrimination of African American farmers. The fact that African American farmers receive lesser loans than white Americans do is made explicit, which means that the existing system of farm loans, as well as the farm economy, in general, has to be revised.