Would African Americans Returning to Rural Areas Help the Communities?

[dora_da_destroyer]

No, there’s a reason across all racial lines rural areas are less well off. Black folks who are doing ok are usually doing so because they are in job centers with access to better employment, healthcare, and social resources. Picking up and going to the middle of no where removes them from those resources while not having enough of their own to grow an area.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Adverse conditions force ppl to cooperate and work closely with others in the community because your survival depends on it. This worked well for cacs in cold climates.

I'm sure the same would be true if groups of black families were out living in rural areas. They'd be tight knit, and stronger as a result.

The Mississippi delta is full of black people in adverse conditions, they are not thriving nor stronger and never have been

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

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

Your peoples don’t stay far from mine on the GA side of the state line. Used to bug me out that we would go to Atlanta or Jacksonville for big city amenities and folks from MadCo would come to ours

 

[Afro]

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

It is, folks aren't paying attention though.

Council Post: Are We Nearing Another Farm Crisis?

Whether another crisis is coming or not, farmers are facing obstacles that lenders can help them overcome.

www.forbes.com

Black farmers struggle in face of structural racism and economic headwinds

The number of self-identified Black farmers in the United States has dwindled over the last century, in part because of overt discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The agency is the economic backbone for most American farmers through its financing, insurance, research and...

www.pbs.org

Inflation effects everything. Not to dissuade anybody, just know it will be a different kind of struggle and to have an exit strategy if need be.

 

[analog]

The Mississippi delta is full of black people in adverse conditions, they are not thriving nor stronger and never have been

Put them folks in Iceland and they just might start singing a different tune

 

[Jasonmask]

Sounds good on paper but reminds me of a modern BWS scenario

 

[WIA20XX]

On a global level, it's not like black people don't hold land and farm. Whole nations are agriculture based that end up trading commodities for higher value good and services. That alone keeps them poor. Throw in everything else that the system does to them.

In this country you've got

Black people still being harassed off of their land.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox21news.com/top-stories/black-ranchers-arrested-following-claims-of-harassment-racism/amp/

And the US government STILL not offering financing.

‘Rampant issues’: Black farmers are still left out at USDA

Black farmers are far behind in obtaining grants and loans, a POLITICO analysis of data shows.

www.politico.com

I got extended family that owns land and still makes money from it - but just like Black elders in gentrifying neighborhoods - racism and capitalism has them other folks actively targeting them and taking their assets.

It's not through ignorance that our people lose their wealth in this country. Educated folks can't get jobs in their fields, or can't get the right pay, or can't move up. So human capital is taken.

And when it comes to intellectual capital, they take the lions share of music, film, and television. Even our slang, dances, and style are exploited. Ex. White people done took Nashville Hot Chicken and made more money on it than the original folks ever did.

As has been said plenty of times, we can't have anything.

So as any sort of mass movement back to the land - folks also need metal, drill presses, lathes, etc to manufacture "protection".

Without the private means to protect our property from the predation of others.....

 

[Wink Beaufield]

Why does the coli want black people to go to rural areas full of MAGA cacs and no jobs or infrastructure

Healthcare is a big issue as well. If something happened to you in these rural areas, emergency services getting to you can take 30 minutes or more. Even when they do get to you, just getting to the hospital can take a while if your county doesn't have access to a Medevac helicopter. There isn't any level 1 trauma centers in rural areas.

Don't have no conditions that require you to see a specialist either.

 

[Roger king]

I dont like this, this could severely hinder black voting power in important elections and reduce black representation in congress, imagine more black people who live in cities like philadelphia and milwuakee, relocate to places like iowa or indiana to live on a farm, you just make it easiers for racists like desantis and trump to become president because they can easily win crucial swing states like Pennsylvania and wiscosnin and thus have an easier time getting elected and enacting their white supremacist anti black policies. Theres a reason conservatives and racists shyt on cities like philadelphia milwuakee and detriot because they know huge number of black people live there who vote against their white supremacist policies and agenda, its why when they cry about baseless claims of voter fraud they always use philadelphia and other black majority cities as a dog whistle to say ''wink wink'' these black people are cheating. I am 100 percent against this idea. Only move to a state that is a swing state and equally as important electorally but dont go park up and move to white have iowa or indiana or oklahoma where your vote will be diluted and drowned out like it is much across the south

 

[Wiseborn]

Ain't no abundance of p*ssy in rural areas and for that reason I'm out.

My guy you just don'tknow.

Yes generally speaking fly country chicks try to move to the city but lack of money and lack of networks stymie them.

I used to run through small town country bytches when I was in the Army.

I beleive according to Black Demographics.com most Black people still live in and around the MS River Valley granted there's some cities there like Memphis but still there's a lot of almost exclusively ADOS women in small towns all over the south.

Finally the vast majority are smaller Towns and cities very very few people are actual farmers most shyt is basically like the hood up north just with a lower cost of living.

 

[Wiseborn]

Healthcare is a big issue as well. If something happened to you in these rural areas, emergency services getting to you can take 30 minutes or more. Even when they do get to you, just getting to the hospital can take a while if your county doesn't have access to a Medevac helicopter. There isn't any level 1 trauma centers in rural areas.

Don't have no conditions that require you to see a specialist either.

You could say that 911 is a joke in the city too and I remember walking out of the emergency room after 3 hours in Kings Couty Hostpital but yeah being way away from a hospital is an issue. I remember driving on I-59 in MS and seeing why Bessie Smith Died near there wasn't shyt around but massive cotton fields. In fact a couple months later my buddy was driving my car back to DC crashed and was lucky to be airlifed to a hospital.

 

[timeless]

It is a start..

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Nah.

And fukk living anywhere with out rail infrastructure and non stop flights to other continents.

 

[TripleAgent]

AFTER cash reparations, sure. Otherwise, you're just broke out in the country. Land with no money is struggle.

 

[Swirv]

Really depends on the area’s infrastructure. Setting that up takes millions.