105: A City Named Freedom w/ The Freedom Georgia Initiative

While Black

REVOLT

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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I know many of us have contemplated if life would be better in our own protected place - a place specifically for Black Folks. That is exactly what we are talking about today but it's not just pie in the sky. We are talking to the founders of The Freedom Georgia Initiative; the organization responsible for Freedom GA a new black city built for and by us. Hit play to learn more about this new black safe haven and all that it is and will be. Go get you a few acres - I plan too! Please check them out @ The Freedom Georgia Initiative Don't forget to get social with While Black IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.1	everybody. That means you too. So what are you waiting for? GM's got the keys. You
0:20.6	grab the wheel. Learn more about an all-electric future and the 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 at GM.com.
0:27.0	GM, everybody in. In 1920 we owned over 20 million acres of land as black folk. In 2020 we owned
0:36.2	over 20 million acres of land as black folk. In 2020 we own less than one
0:42.0	million acres.
0:43.6	Ted Turner owns more land than Black America.
0:48.0	We purchased the land back in July
0:52.2	so that we could create a thriving Black safe haven.
0:55.8	Someplace where we as 19 black families could raise our children, where we could have our businesses where we could
1:06.1	build retirement homes and vacation homes and know that the community that we're
1:12.0	building is a reflection of our core values that is
1:15.8	environmentally friendly that is loving and tolerant and respectful of the
1:20.7	diversity that we even find amongst black families because we got diversity
1:25.8	we don't exist in a monolith as black folks and so we wanted to create something
1:31.4	where we could experience.
1:33.0	Where we could experience.
1:35.0	Well, welcome to Wow Black, a seriously opinion-
1:40.0	a seriously opinionated podcast bringing you the real and raw on anything happening
1:47.8	while black.
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