GEORGIA — A group of Black American families are putting their resources together to form their own safe space called the Freedom Georgia Initiative.
Under the Georgia hot sun, they are literally building their own town from the ground up to create a place for Black America hopefully free of racism and injustice.
“We’re able to address things like violence by living in tolerance and love and being an example with one another,” one investor said.
These few families started small. They pooled their money together to buy 97 acres of land about two hours south of Atlanta, a place intended to be an escape from everyday racism in America.
Renee Walters and Ashley Scott are the two women who started this all after seeing an ad for affordable land.
“Well, it was a post that went viral about, buy a town for sale for the price of a New York apartment. And so, when I looked at it, I saw it had all these Parcells and acres,” the two said.
This is not the first-time disenfranchised people left one place to start a new life somewhere else. Immigrants from Ireland, Italy and Germany all moved to America to find better lives.
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These Americans are already in the land of the free. Meet the Browns, who are one of thousands of Black families considering relocating to rural Georgia, so they drove down from Chicago to decide.
“I think that if we want to feel safe, secure, and be able to honor our culture, our heritage, and plan for our children, and not have to worry about what happens to them when they leave out the door, we have to; not necessarily segregate but have our own,” Brown said.
There are still things that need to happen before families can start building their new homes, such as getting running water and turning on electricity, according Tabatha Mullins.
Tabatha and her husband Greg currently live in a community full of black professionals, but they believe move to rural Georgia is better for their family.
“We’re not preaching separation. We’re not preaching segregation. No. We just want to be safe. That’s it,” Mullins said. “That’s all, we don’t ask for anything else, I just want to live.”
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