19 families buy nearly 97 acres of land in Georgia to create a city safe for Black people

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

 

This is hilarious. It started on the local news. So they bought 97 acres of cut over timber and scrub to make a safe place for Black people. This is desolate poor rural Georgia. Safe as opposed to what. All black parts of Chicago. ROFl Safe from the many 1000's killed by other blacks every year.  Get with me in a year and tell me how safe that area is

 

 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/freedom-black-cooperative-toomsboro/index.html

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

As a white, will I be allowed to live there? Just kidding, I don’t want to, but it might make an interesting vacation stop in a few years 

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

Just now, Randyandyuni said:

As a white, will I be allowed to live there? Just kidding, I don’t want to, but it might make an interesting vacation stop in a few years 

Allowing blacks to leave the quicksand urban nightmare cities they're stuck in isn't the prerogative of the Democratic Party and the woke left, so Wakanda-ville is likely to be 90%+ white. To offset that, you just need to identify as black and elect people like Shaun King as mayor. CHAZ-CHOP was just a demo, I, for one, look forward to this progressive woke Wakandan utopia. 😍

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

The single most dangerous thing they could ever do, statistically.  

[TBoneTX 45,291]

I'm reminded of when the small town of Vidor, TX was found to not have any black residents.  Then-Vice-Perpetrator Algore was so enraged that he ordered a black man to be moved in there.  That man died shortly thereafter.

[Just Paul 4,595]

13 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

I'm reminded of when the small town of Vidor, TX was found to not have any black residents.

He died when he moved out - at the hands of blacks at his new town.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/09/03/a-new-residence-and-a-tragedy/40806717-7d3e-4540-be53-7602edbfe1f8/

Edited September 13, 2020 by Paul & Mary

[TBoneTX 45,291]

Good research, Paul -- gracias.

 

What I remember from the time is that a great many residents of Vidor were surprised at the news that nobody black lived there, and their reaction was, "Anybody is welcome here."

[Just Paul 4,595]

1 minute ago, TBoneTX said:

What I remember from the time is that a great many residents of Vidor were surprised at the news that nobody black lived there, and their reaction was, "Anybody is welcome here."

I don't often quote or link to WaPO but when I do it's epic.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

19 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

 

This is hilarious. It started on the local news. So they bought 97 acres of cut over timber and scrub to make a safe place for Black people. This is desolate poor rural Georgia. Safe as opposed to what. All black parts of Chicago. ROFl Safe from the many 1000's killed by other blacks every year.  Get with me in a year and tell me how safe that area is

 

 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/us/freedom-black-cooperative-toomsboro/index.html

White Americans have had these for years, they are called gated communities.

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

43 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

White Americans have had these for years, they are called gated communities.

Not quite. Gated communities are based around homes. What this appears to be is an attempt to develop agriculture, businesses and homes interests to create a self sustaining society. The fact that they expect to do it on 90 or so acres seems a little short sighted 

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

1 hour ago, CanAm1980 said:

White Americans have had these for years, they are called gated communities.

Are you implying that blacks don't live in gated communities?

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

2 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Are you implying that blacks don't live in gated communities?

I am staying for years it couldn't happen, even some covenants mandated it.

 

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

1 minute ago, CanAm1980 said:

I am staying for years it couldn't happen, even some covenants mandated it.

 

When?  I'm not too old, but I have never seen such.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

14 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

When?  I'm not too old, but I have never seen such.

Race restrictions are still present in many (unenforceable) deeds as a legacy but they were not deemed against Federal law until 1968. In 1938 the federal government would not back a mortgage that did not include the language. 

 

In terms of getting a mortgage, redlining continued into the 70s when the CRA was put in place and banks were graded (1977). How many landlords, sellers, brokers guided transactions based on race ? Hard to say, but I witnessed it first hand in 1990's Chicago. Seeing how some folks stay in their place 20 years or more, the practical effect is felt today.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

29 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

Race restrictions are still present in many (unenforceable) deeds as a legacy but they were not deemed against Federal law until 1968. In 1938 the federal government would not back a mortgage that did not include the language. 

 

In terms of getting a mortgage, redlining continued into the 70s when the CRA was put in place and banks were graded (1977). How many landlords, sellers, brokers guided transactions based on race ? Hard to say, but I witnessed it first hand in 1990's Chicago. Seeing how some folks stay in their place 20 years or more, the practical effect is felt today.

So well before either of us were buying homes.  I thought you meant something currently happening, thanks for clearing that up.  I have never lived anywhere that blacks were not welcome.  They are around me in lower numbers than whites, as one would expect.  But certainly not restricted from living in any neighborhood in which I have ever lived, whether it be in CA, NY, AL, FL, or foreign countries.

 

Trulia did a study that has some interesting findings, but nothing that I saw would support blacks being excluded from gated communities...

 

https://www.trulia.com/research/50-years-fair-housing/