Like I said earlier in the thread, my mom’s side of the family is from that county, and we used to go down there every summer growing up so I’m very familiar with it. Just gonna add some context.
Brehs keep mentioning that they need to tool up, and put barbed wire over it and declare their independence, etc
It’s not really like that. Toomsboro, McIntyre and that county is filled with black folks that just chill, raise their families and stay out the way. It’s remote as fukk and in the middle of nowhere. I can’t stress that enough. They didn’t get a traffic light and a Subway restaurant until I was a teenager. Counties not too far away have Wal-Mart and stuff now, but even when I was growing up and visiting as a kid, if you wanted to “go to the market” and get some groceries you had to for real get in the car and DRIVE somewhere and make a day out of it.
So while it’s always smart for a citizen to tool up, and this getting national coverage could always bring unwanted attention, they’re not going to take over the county, they’re going to blend right in with it. You got your occasional good ol’ boys but that area is already filled with black folks who know how to hunt, fish and grow crops. That’s just a radical way of life to us because we get away from it living in more developed areas. This is the type of town that you’re never going to go through unless you’re on a semi-truck or train sending supplies somewhere. You have to go out of your way to get to the area and people that live there, just live there.
That’s why the land is so cheap. We thought it was the most boring place in the world growing up, but as a grown man now I relish those trips to see fam because it’s so peaceful and nothing is there but clear skies and fresh air. With COVID I definitely wish I could spend a week or two down there cooling out with my people.
So this is more about black folks wanting peace and community somewhere and less of a hostile takeover. The way that area is set up it’s more modern black Quakers than Black Wall Street. Though the internet has opened up commerce so there’s more creative ways to bring money to the area or at least be self-sufficient. But if you not about that country living life for real and in the truest sense, don’t bring your ass down there. Ain’t nothing to do on a Friday night except sit on the porch and have conversation
