In the face of a pandemic that has hit Black Americans harder than almost any other group, while the nation continues to confront the toxic legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, two 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.”
With her friend Renee Walters, an entrepreneur and investor, she founded the Freedom Georgia Initiative, a group of 19 Black families who collectively purchased 96.71 acres of rural land in Toomsboro, a town of a few hundred people in central Georgia, with the intention of developing a self-contained Black community. The space will have small homes for vacation use and will host weddings, retreats and recreational functions, and may eventually evolve into an incorporated, self-sustaining community.
“It’s now time for us to get our friends and family together and build for ourselves,” said Walters, who serves as the president of the organization, in an interview with Yahoo News. “That’s the only way we’ll be safe. And that’s the only way that this will work. We have to start bringing each other together.”
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Sounds like another Pity Party !
Hmmmmm….a cult maybe? Didn’t Jim Jones recruit mostly blacks for his cult that went to Georgetown? Or a new version of the Black Panthers? And if Marcus Garvey was alive today, what would he say about it?
I can already see a problem
All the Black agitators -,- They won’t all fit on 96 acres
So, despite people in the past fighting to end segregation, these people now want to be segregated.
Imagine the outrage if 19 white families did this! I can see the headline now – ““19 White Supremacist Far Right Nazi-Sympathizer families purchase 96 acres of land to create a ‘Fourth Reich haven’ for Aryan people”!
Of course you are free to gather as you like but check this out as we all should know the truth about slavery ‘The privilege they erased from history.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwN-Pdfd-Qo&t=39s
Some folks there already drank the kool-aid.
Blinded by their own color into victim status.
People are gonna congregate with whom they wish to and that’s absolutely their Right.
It also goes for ALL.