Based on the available evidence Fannie Lou Hamer she acted as though she could raise more donations than it costs to operate an overleveraged Freedom Farm Cooperative (FFC). And she worked to help people who lacked the understanding and commitment to work within a cooperative system to obtain needed goods and services. Hamer acted like she could raise more money than the FFC owed to banks. And as a result, fundraising for FFC in part resulted in her dying at a relatively early age. Until the day she died, she remained unable to see the individual and structural problems facing FCC: using bank loans to cash flow anti-poverty programs and as a result becoming enslaved to debt; hiring too many problematic FCC staff members; servicing too many people who did not understand virtues of a cooperative system and never committed to it. A lack of commitment to the obligations of the pig bank.
Tell others about this blog and share a link