Posted on 09/08/2020 6:58:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ashley Scott and Renee Walters have a dream – and if you’re not black, it doesn’t involve you. The two Georgia women are founding an all-black town in central Georgia to shake off 400 years of oppressive racism. Their inspiration is the fictional Wakanda in the Black Panther. Unwittingly, though, they’re repeating an old American tradition of utopian communitarianism.
According to Yahoo! News, Scott and Walters inspired 19 black families to purchase 96 acres of land for their “safe haven” (hat tip: Breitbart). The Yahoo article opens with a rote recitation of how awful America is (“the nation continues to confront the toxic legacy of slavery and Jim Crow”). Only then does it get to the actual story, which is Scott’s and Walters’s plan:
[T]wo Georgia women have come together to build a community that will be a place free of oppression, “a tight-knit community for our people to just come and breathe.”
They are calling it Freedom, Georgia, and draw their inspiration from Wakanda, the fictional comic-book country that was the setting for the movie “Black Panther.”
Ashley Scott, a realtor from Stonecrest, Ga., who was driven to seek therapy by her reaction to the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man jogging in a white neighborhood, said that after several sessions she realized that her problem was 400 years of racial oppression and trauma dating back to the establishment of slavery in North America.
“We are dealing with systemic racism,” she wrote in an op-ed for Blavity last month. “We are dealing with deep-rooted issues that will require more than protesting in the streets.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I think it’s great an all they do this, but “collectively” anything is going to degenerate into a massive legal battle once someone passes or moves away.
LIBERIA. Been there, tried that.
They're in a sorry shape if their inspiration comes from a Marvel Comics cartoon. It should be embarrassing, to be honest.
100 acres is way too small to be self-sufficient. They will need to import almost everything from outside. This means they need to generate income in this “town”.
I don’t see many income-producing activities on their agenda, but they might make it work as a retirement center for people who get income without working. OTOH there is another way to get income without working, which is welfare. Maybe they are re-inventing the housing project.
Well, good luck to them. They will need it.
Liberia, was my first thought too.
Or Jamestown, Guyana.
They never want to go to Africa. They should be grateful that their ancestors were rescued from a life of slavery in Africa.
As bad as slavery was, it was better to be a slave in the US than on the dark continent. And eventually it led to freedom.
Diversity is our strength!
Rinse and repeat the mantra ad nauseum - or be labeled a racist.
"Incorporated" means that they will be able to organize their own police force. A police force which will not necessarily allow arrests within their territory, of residents who are wanted for crimes committed in neighboring white areas.
Good luck to them but ... this is ridiculous. Segregation really?
I am old enough to remember forced integration, school busing, section 8, etc. Now ‘they’ want separate dorms at college, black only fraternities, etc. Should we re-install ‘black only’ water fountains and bathrooms in stores?
This is nutz ...
True, and I hope they checked to see who owns the kaolin rights.
Wakanda didn’t have to deal with HUD...Georgia does.
“Fair Housing Act
42 U.S.C. §§ 3601-19
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, and disability. It also requires that all federal programs relating to housing and urban development be administered in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing.
Why not designate the place they intend to “colonize” ( for want of a better word ), something similar to Indian Territory as an experiment.... let’s see how far that goes.
They are attempting to practice freedom of association. Such freedoms were outlawed by the so-called civil rights legislation in the 1960s. The Feds were brought into all housing transactions and all neighborhoods.
I already picked the ‘over/under’ for the towns first felony arrest.
My selection is ‘December 1st, assault with a deadly weapon’.
This is the solution. But at some point they will require plumbing, infrastructure, and other municipal amenities created and constructed by whites.
RE: But at some point they will require plumbing, infrastructure, and other municipal amenities created and constructed by whites.
They can hire black contractors can’t they?
Contractors, maybe. All black labor? Highly unlikely.
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