Small black city is "taken over" as soon as they get a large lucrative corporate investment..

[Aquarius Snake]

Just read the article. Sadly, I don’t see them winning this fight due to the $22 million annually the site will bring to the state. Them people will do everything they can to make sure none of that money goes to expand Mason as a thriving predominantly black city. Maybe they should get Kamala involved. (sarcasm)

 

[Voice of Reason]

In a perfect world with Work from Home more prevalent more educated younger black professionals would move into towns like this and raise the tax base and take control of the government. Then use the leverage to attract large corporations like Ford in this instance. Black Americans we have to get more creative if we are going to thrive in this country.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Didn't Coli Socialists just tell me the Government will always have our back?

No they didn't. But you did tell them to just be capitalists and everything will work out fine.

 

[ORDER_66]

fukking ridiculous it never ends everytime we get somewhere cacs always plotting and tearing it down because they want it for themselves but america isnt racist they said bootstraps they said

 

[SupremexKing]

"Mason is 60% Black and includes descendants of men, women and children enslaved in the area before Emancipation. For more than a century the town was led by White elected officials."

am i misreading? if there are 60% black people and 40% white people...how can the mayors be white for 100 years? there are more black people? and they could have voted for at least half a century?

am i off here?

you're forgetting the history of white terrorism that kept black people who could vote on paper, from voting.

this is 100% not on them.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

"Mason is 60% Black and includes descendants of men, women and children enslaved in the area before Emancipation. For more than a century the town was led by White elected officials."

am i misreading? if there are 60% black people and 40% white people...how can the mayors be white for 100 years? there are more black people? and they could have voted for at least half a century?

am i off here?

The next paragraphs says,

Mason is 60% Black and includes descendants of men, women and children enslaved in the area before Emancipation. For more than a century the town was led by White elected officials.

That changed in 2016, when fraud and mismanagement allegations led to the resignations of nearly all City Hall officials, all of whom were White. Mason’s current mayor, vice mayor and five of its six alderman are Black.

 

[Aquarius Snake]

In a perfect world with Work from Home more prevalent more educated younger black professionals would move into towns like this and raise the tax base and take control of the government. Then use the leverage to attract large corporations like Ford in this instance. Black Americans we have to get more creative if we are going to thrive in this country.

That’s actually a great idea although the window for that is probably closing quickly. Still, you should reach out to the mayor of their town or their city counsel.

 

[alpo]

This Tennessee you illiterate sack of shyt,done by republicans

You the opps too! Kick rocks goofy

 

[Secure Da Bag]

@TradePascalSiakam @Houston911 can we get this pinned?

 

[Voice of Reason]

That’s actually a great idea although the window for that is probably closing quickly. Still, you should reach out to the mayor of their town or their city counsel.

That town would probably need at least like 500-100 people making higher salaries to make a dent.


I doubt that place has any attractions but it's just a thought. Young cac professionals moved to small towns all over America during the height of work from home and it changed local politics.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

That town would probably need at least like 500-100 people making higher salaries to make a dent.


I doubt that place has any attractions but it's just a thought. Young cac professionals moved to small towns all over America during the height of work from home and it changed local politics.

Well the thing to look for is how many outsiders move into that town because of the new Ford plant. Might get gentrified regardless.

 

[Afrodroid]

Didn't Coli Socialists just tell me the Government will always have our back?

Yes, stabbing us in the back

Them cacs will fight tooth and nail to prevent another Black Wall Street from happening again.

 

[SupremexKing]

Black people debating over economic models that will save us from white supremacy

Both black capitalists and black socialists failed to do what it takes to change our situation....you cannot change your material conditions until you educate the mass of your people to behave in a manner beneficial to the entire race.

This includes self-defense, control over resources and space. Capitalism and socialism do not consider the downfalls of close proximity to or enemies, nor do they account for the irrational behaviors that comes from cacs.

The very point of this article (to me) seems to be that we cannot do business at all without them meddling in our affairs and either hindering or hijacking.

So the issue is bigger than what form of economic system you want to vouch for. The economy is one subset of a bigger issue.

 

[Aquarius Snake]

I’ve noticed a lot of good threads here get ruined by party politics. Why are people arguing for 2 equally racist sides with different tactics? Black progression is neutralized by Democrats by lumping us in with “minorities” and “POC” and by Republicans with intellectual dishonesty.

Instead of being the chess pieces (pawns) we should play chess and vote based on which party is offering the most for us during elections and hold them accountable by voting them out if they don’t deliver.

This blind faith bs hasn’t gotten us where we need to be. Both parties are full of shyt, so we need to be strategic. I don’t understand carrying the torch for groups that don’t actually give a damn about you or your people and fighting your own people over your blind faith.

 

[boskey]

Them cacs will fight tooth and nail to prevent another Black Wall Street from happening again.

This makes no sense 100 Black Wall Streets have already happened and most of them still exist today

The very point of this article (to me) seems to be that we cannot do business at all without them meddling in our affairs and either hindering or hijacking

This town is in a white county, in a white state and in a white country. And it's 40 percent white. And the contract they got from Ford was given by white people. It's hard to argue that this is an exclusively "black affair".

I'm not justifying what's going on, but people need to discuss these situations with all the facts and not just emotion