Would African Americans Returning to Rural Areas Help the Communities?

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Edit: This thread got me thinking

Get a USDA loan to buy land and build a house

We used to sell a shytload of homes in McDonough back in the day with USDA Financing. More black folk should take advantage of USDA but people not trying to live out in the woods like that I get it, but I prefer it. My primary residence is in the metro; South Fulton, Fulton county. I bought...

www.thecoli.com

Not to romanticize living in the country or anything (cuz the bugs are like WHOA!), but there could be some definite benefits:

-Opportunity to invest in local and private school districts FUBU

-Cheaper land, more room to spread out

-Learn to live off the land/survival skills.

Here’s some articles on black homesteaders

Living off the land: the new sisterhood of Black female homesteaders | Farming | The Guardian

From the South Side of Chicago to tiny Carolina farms, a growing number of Black women are reclaiming the land – and their wellbeing

amp.theguardian.com

Some blacks are cashing in on the cannibus

How Black farmers are making inroads into the cannabis industry

Black farmers are looking to the cannabis industry in the U.S. to spur generational wealth in the Black community after decades of grappling with the hardships of being locked out of the agricultural industry and land ownership.

news.yahoo.com

And there are multiple resources too!

This Fund Is Investing $20 Million to Help Black Farmers Thrive

Farmer-activists Karen Washington and Olivia Watkins are boosting Black farmers, agricultural businesses, and food entrepreneurs in the Northeast with tools, training, and cash.

civileats.com

 

[Iverson_64]

Maybe but my Gullah relatives in rural South Carolina are not living all that great.

Jobs are scarce, wages are low, healthy food access and diet is abysmal, and there's still issues with people attacking each other though it's not on the same level as the inner cities.

However, moneyed and educated urban Black people reclaiming the suburbs and rural areas and investing in those communities will be a smart move for sure.

 

[Buddy]

that's a strange idea. rural life removes access to most resources. i don't see that happening or helping unless a town is built rurally and grows from industry.

 

[The Half-Blood FKA Prince]

Edit: This thread got me thinking

Get a USDA loan to buy land and build a house

We used to sell a shytload of homes in McDonough back in the day with USDA Financing. More black folk should take advantage of USDA but people not trying to live out in the woods like that I get it, but I prefer it. My primary residence is in the metro; South Fulton, Fulton county. I bought...

www.thecoli.com

Not to romanticize living in the country or anything (cuz the bugs are like WHOA!), but there could be some definite benefits:

-Opportunity to invest in local and private school districts FUBU

-Cheaper land, more room to spread out

-Learn to live off the land/survival skills.

Here’s some articles on black homesteaders

Living off the land: the new sisterhood of Black female homesteaders | Farming | The Guardian

From the South Side of Chicago to tiny Carolina farms, a growing number of Black women are reclaiming the land – and their wellbeing

amp.theguardian.com

Some blacks are cashing in on the cannibus

How Black farmers are making inroads into the cannabis industry

Black farmers are looking to the cannabis industry in the U.S. to spur generational wealth in the Black community after decades of grappling with the hardships of being locked out of the agricultural industry and land ownership.

news.yahoo.com

And there are multiple resources too!

This Fund Is Investing $20 Million to Help Black Farmers Thrive

Farmer-activists Karen Washington and Olivia Watkins are boosting Black farmers, agricultural businesses, and food entrepreneurs in the Northeast with tools, training, and cash.

civileats.com

Im with it.

Currently working on something like this with the fam. Hopefully soon that dream will become a reality.

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

My family on my father side outside of Burgaw got about 5 miles worth of land on one road that started from when my great great grandfather was freed.
Got they own farm grow shyt and a few of my uncles and cousins driving log trucks making over a 100k a year. Even one cousin who is a professor at UNCW.
It can be done, if you lack excuses.
The 10 acres my grandmother passed down to my father he passing down to me and my sis.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

aren’t rural areas filled with poverty?

 

[rabbid]

You'd have to be on your Kutcher-Kunis tip and actually have the resources to transform the land around you. You just out there with a small shed and some livestock gone keep you stressed and probably end up abandoned. Plus you aint got good wifi so if you fall in a hole somewhere they might not find you for weeks.

I did a farm tour in Georgia for school and i didnt see many black families, but the families that were out there, you could tell it wasn't their sole property. They were also hustling and making money with secondary activities on the property besides just agriculture.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Maybe but my Gullah relatives in rural South Carolina are not living all that great.

Jobs are scarce, wages are low, healthy food access and diet is abysmal, and there's still issues with people attacking each other though it's not on the same level as the inner cities.

However, moneyed and educated urban Black people reclaiming the suburbs and rural areas and investing in those communities will be a smart move for sure.

I couldn't help but think of my mother's roots in Madison county Florida. Being from Baltimore it's still wild for me to see a REAL rural black town with 2 stop lights and a homes with dirt driveways.

But like your gullah relatives that town is underdeveloped. No grocery stores, hospitals, and the nearest Walmart is a 35 minute drive on the highway to Valdosta.

No bars or restaurants but for fun you can get drunk at a family members house all day/night. Or drive an hour to Tallahassee for a night out

 

[ORDER_66]

move back to cac central lands where youre harassed daily by cacs and lynchings are happening OP in rural areas??? IJS...

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

aren’t rural areas filled with poverty?

Not really. Don't let that fool you.

 

[get these nets]

@Booksnrain,

If you don't mind me asking, are you a child (or 1,2,3,4 generations removed) of The Great Migration?
It wasn't just from South to North and West, but also from rural South to metro South areas.

Closer your ties are to that migration, seems the easier it would be make the adjustment.

 

[Chrishaune]

aren’t rural areas filled with poverty?

IF you work the land you won't be in poverty. I see farmers building new houses all around.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

IF you work the land you won't be in poverty. I see farmers building new houses all around.

Interesting I thought the news now was that farmers are a struggling demographic

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Not really. Don't let that fool you.

Interesting I thought rural areas were the most impoverished areas globally in and out of America

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

You have to have a community first


There are no Black communities in America period.


A community means having your own Banks, hospitals, grocery stores, ect. The is no area that has Black banks, hospitals, grocery stores, ect. So just buying land and building a home not doing shyt for a community that doesn't exist.