19 black families have pooled resources together to purchase a 90-acre tract of land in Georgia with the goal of creating a “safe city” for black people following a summer of civil unrest across the United States after claims of police racism against African Americans led to protests, riots, looting, and other violence.
The Freedom Georgia Initiative, as the purchase is called, aims to sow seeds of a potential new Black Wall Street or Wakanda in Toomsboro, Georgia, after several high profile killings of negro criminals dominated much of the news cycle this year.
Georgia-based realtor Ashley Scott revealed that she decided to launch the initiative after the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery broke headlines in an op-ed for Blavity.
She wrote, “I know you’re wondering, ‘What in the world does all this have to do with why you all purchased land in the midst of protests and a pandemic, and how you used cooperative economics to do it?’ Well, everything.”
Scott then details her intentions to support the eco-friendly community by hiring black labor; championing diversity and inclusion within the black community; and having a place where black families would not be killed by police.
“Amass land, develop affordable housing for yourself, build your own food systems, build manufacturing and supply chains, build your own home school communities, build your own banks and credit unions, build your own cities, build your own police departments, tax yourselves and vote in a mayor and a city council you can trust,” she writes.
“Build it from scratch! Then go get all the money the United States of America has available for government entities and get them bonds. This is how we build our new Black Wall Streets. We can do this. We can have Wakanda! We just have to build it for ourselves!”
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