19 Black Families Buy Nearly 97 Acres Of Land In Georgia To Create A Safe City
Stepping up to the plate! That’s exactly what these great people are doing for their community. A total of 19 families in Georgia have purchased nearly 97 acres of land to create a “safe haven for people of color.”
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According to CNN, the land was purchased by the families back in August. It’s located just east of Macon in rural Wilkinson County, Ga. The news site notes that it was the civil unrest due to the recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, which sparked the Freedom Georgia Initiative — a group that’s dedicated to promoting a strong community among Blacks, co-founder and Vice President Ashley Scott said. They plan to create a new city on the land and name it “Freedom Georgia.” Scott made it clear that the city is not just for Black people exclusively, but said it will be “pro-Black in every way.”
“Watching our people protesting in the streets, while it is important, and I want people to stay out in the streets, bringing attention to the injustices of Black people. We needed to create a space and a place where we could be a village, again, a tribe, again,” Scott told CNN.
She went on to say,
“Being able to create a community that is thriving, that is safe, that has agriculture and commercial businesses that are supporting one another and that dollars circulating in our community, that is our vision,” Scott said.
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