John Boyd and Wachovia

"Dr." John Boyd isn't just about farmers

He was a central part of the protests against Wachovia for reparations.

The Wachovia story is basically a black extortion scheme for reparations.
Here's the background from American Spectator.

It started (where else?) in Chicago when the Chicago machine passed a law requiring companies doing business with the city to account for any profitting they had done from slavery (150+ years earlier).

Somewhere in it's history, Wachovia bought out a couple of banks that did exist before the Civil War in the South that probably had slaves or something.

A merger in 2001 really set it off and Boyd and Gary Grant demanded the banks set up special lending programs.

Therefore, reparations activists decided, Wachovia owed reparations.

Here's one story

Phillip PH Hanie speaks for NBFA (or does he?) here about the issue

John Boyd managed to get $25,000 to start a credit union. He dropped the boycott
He never started that credit union. He asked for more money, but after that, Wachovia had had enough.

At the more sedate Wachovia Corp. (as the former First Union is called) meeting in Charlotte, N.C., bank executives tried to deflect criticism from John Boyd. As the head of a Virginia-based black farmers group that has protested Wachovia's lending practices, Boyd stood up to say that the bank hasn't delivered on a promise to help him start a credit union. Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson begged to differ: The bank provided $25,000 and other assistance, he said, but the "ball was in (Boyd's) court." St Pete's Times 2002

But then he wanted more and continued to protest

Wachovia apologized for slavery