Black Culture Discussion Thread

[tomdiginson]

thank you for dispelling this MYTH

i have 4 ancestors that received land under the Homestead Act. i recently ordered and received my ancestors land grant documents and land certificate from the National Archives

i hate how easy it is for us to believe in conspiracies and myths than it is for us to do the homework for ourselves on our own families and lineage.

Yep, black people migrated Outwest to acquire land, which is why they had land in Oklahoma and other areas. In fact, black people were already out west before the homestead act. Not sure what hombre is talking about.

 

[seasoned vet]

Yep, black people migrated Outwest to acquire land, which is why they had land in Oklahoma and other areas. In fact, black people were already out west before the homestead act. Not sure what hombre is talking about.

The Act was also extended to 5 southern states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida

My ancestors acquired land in Mississippi

So no, they werent “sent out west” to do anything. The Act was specifically opened up to Blacks in 1866 and with that the option to stay in the south.

 

[Quincy McCall]

Started a hub in my city, really dope org— start a chapter if you don’t have one in your city or join an existing one if you do!

 

[kungfu koala]

Evil. Buncha devils!...

 

[seasoned vet]

Im in the process of submitting my ancestors story.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Democrats throwing him out there for '24

 

[Raji Lowenthal]

Because he's not running the country, maybe? I don't know but Biden seems to be going thru it as of late.

 

[tr1ll]

The 'Driving While Black Concept' Aims To Start A Conversation | Carscoops

The Driving While Black concept has been introduced to get people thinking about policing and deadly encounters involving Black people

www.carscoops.com

Dont bother with the comments.

 

[finessence]

We got children out here dying from “internet challenges”…

20s, 30s, 40s etc doing ANY and everything for social media likes or making tik toks.

Biden’s age was always going to be a problem. All of these older politicians for that matter but if people think that’s bad, it’s going to be ten times worse soon because the average American youth or young adult is CLUELESS.

I took my Grandfather to the ER and this young security guard didn’t know what a pacemaker was, literally was arguing with a woman who said her pacemaker was going off.

Instead of stopping what she was doing immediately, and getting help.

I overheard her saying that wasn’t “trained to do that” you aren’t trained to get help for someone who’s potentially having a heart attack?

People complain about older people (like dude up there is about Biden)

But this young generation has no common sense

People better appreciate these old politicians while they can because the up and coming young people are not going on to do any better.

 

[gry60]

The 'Driving While Black Concept' Aims To Start A Conversation | Carscoops

The Driving While Black concept has been introduced to get people thinking about policing and deadly encounters involving Black people

www.carscoops.com

Dont bother with the comments.

"I just want to read about cars. Not politics"

The car has never been non-political in the US. It was introduced as a symbol of Freedom (go where you want, whenever you want), and the roads it needed were built on the moral foundations of segregation, who/what was considered valuable, who deserved to benefit from government largesse and who didn't (building highways in the middle of black communities to take commuters to exclusionary suburban communities purchased with money borrowed from/awarded by the government).

 

[kungfu koala]

that's that holy ghost.

 

[Quincy McCall]

I don't ascribe to Afropessimism, but I appreciate its analysis and thoroughly enjoyed this convo (if you can get through any jargon-y language)

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

We got children out here dying from “internet challenges”…

20s, 30s, 40s etc doing ANY and everything for social media likes or making tik toks.

Biden’s age was always going to be a problem. All of these older politicians for that matter but if people think that’s bad, it’s going to be ten times worse soon because the average American youth or young adult is CLUELESS.

I took my Grandfather to the ER and this young security guard didn’t know what a pacemaker was, literally was arguing with a woman who said her pacemaker was going off.

Instead of stopping what she was doing immediately, and getting help.

I overheard her saying that wasn’t “trained to do that” you aren’t trained to get help for someone who’s potentially having a heart attack?

People complain about older people (like dude up there is about Biden)

But this young generation has no common sense

People better appreciate these old politicians while they can because the up and coming young people are not going on to do any better.

 

[Quincy McCall]

Great content, per usual-- though he's boosting other folks stuff here

 

[deusavertat]

The 'Driving While Black Concept' Aims To Start A Conversation | Carscoops

The Driving While Black concept has been introduced to get people thinking about policing and deadly encounters involving Black people

www.carscoops.com

Dont bother with the comments.

Make this less ugly on the exterior and im copping/investing in it.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[frshstunna]

The Act was also extended to 5 southern states: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida

My ancestors acquired land in Mississippi

So no, they werent “sent out west” to do anything. The Act was specifically opened up to Blacks in 1866 and with that the option to stay in the south.

It woulda been great if folks back then coulda set up shop in the Pacific Northwest…By the water, hella space for farming and cutting down trees and far away from all the bs the south was cooking up….Alotta potential

 

[finessence]

I’m not even a fan of hers but n_ always find a reason to be mad at women. If she doesn’t want to wear her natural hair consistently, that’s her prerogative. And I prefer natural hair too. But c’mon man. We still on that

 

[Raji Lowenthal]

Whenever I see a woman wearing a weave or extensions I assume they don't grow hair to well. I understand why athletes do it tho.

 

[seasoned vet]

It woulda been great if folks back then coulda set up shop in the Pacific Northwest…By the water, hella space for farming and cutting down trees and far away from all the bs the south was cooking up….Alotta potential

from: https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/5views/5views2d.htm

Land-based economic development in agricultural settlements was promoted at various times after the turn of the century in Yolo, San Bernardino, Tulare, and Fresno counties. The Yolo County settlement in 1900 was perhaps the first group attempt to build an agricultural base on homesteaded land. Settlement by Blacks could not have occurred earlier, since California's homestead laws had previously required a homesteader to be a White citizen.

In California, like other regions, Black homesteaders had to settle for the least desirable land. The land Black families successfully homesteaded overlooking the town of Guinda in Yolo County had earlier been given over to bandits. High above the valley, at a considerable distance from the county seat and transportation points, the area was remote and relatively inaccessible.

For years, maps showed the settlement as ****** Hill, the pejorative place name used by locals. The nomenclature reflected local racial conditions. Despite social and environmental adversities, Black ranchers moved in from Northern California and the Bay Area, and raised cattle and experimented with orchards and other agricultural products. On what was once the main road leading to the summit stands a sandstone boulder, "Owl Rock," on which residents over the years have etched their names. Owl Rock represents the last physical evidence of the early settlement.

At least two different efforts at colonization occurred in San Bernardino County between 1900 and 1910. The Forum, a Los Angeles civic club organized in 1903, solicited families to homestead government land in the Sidewinder Valley, desert land near Victorville. The first homesteader took up 640 acres at a site where ground water could be easily lifted, but water, although critical to subsequent development, was never available in ample supply. Little is known about the actual number of families who relocated to Sidewinder Valley during the Forum's promotional effort. However, in a newspaper account in 1914, the Forum reported that more than 20,000 acres had been homesteaded by Blacks. Lucerne, an adjacent town situated in the arid Sidewinder Valley, has been singled out by pioneers in Sidewinder Valley as an originally Black settlement.

Another highly publicized colonization effort in San Bernardino County occurred in 1904. [14] The African Society, a group based in the town of San Bernardino and capitalized at $10,000, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, had been created to colonize the Southern California area.

The Tulare County agricultural settlement was the town of AlIensworth. Established in 1908 by a group of promoters, Allensworth was more than an agricultural settlement. It was designed to be a self-governed Black town. The promoters attracted more than 200 settlers to the town in the first few years. For nearly a decade, Allensworth's pioneers struggled to create a viable town in the arid San Joaquin Valley. Artesian water, initially abundant, soon stopped flowing at the volume required to meet domestic and agricultural demand. Although various plans were implemented to acquire adequate water, this town, like other agricultural settlements, be came another dream deferred.

 

[tr1ll]

ICYMI

 

[wavycrocket]

 

[tomdiginson]

Pan Africanism.

 

[gry60]

Pan Africanism.

How, when the treaty is to ensure that they don't get attacked by their neighbors?

And, speaking as an African-raised, the popular support for these military leaders will be short-lived as soon as the honeymoon phase is over if the military governments do not offer a clear economic vision (no high hopes on that front from me...)

BTW, wavycrocket , the new Gabonese president is the former president's cousin, so I don't think we should celebrate these coup d'etats so fast....