A must-read: Patrick Chandler Brown — named after the PCB chemicals dumped in his community — purchased the plantation where his great-grandfather was enslaved and is in the process of transforming it to serve farmers like him
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I think that is one of the most awesome stories I've heard in a very long time. Very cool! Turning a cistern of hatred into a bastion of hope for the descendants of those that hatred targeted. Wow that is powerful stuff! Thank you for sharing this.
Yes, I think I will do that but I've seen other ppl do this pin thing. I just can't work out how! (Although I have about 2000 bookmarks on Twitter, so maybe emailing myself is smarter!)
I recently went back and watched Ken Burns Civil War, and then watched a great YouTube documentary on Reconstruction. Most of us had history but it was so damn long ago do you really remember what happened. I wanted to study it because those who fail... are doomed to repeat. No repeats.
That's a stupid thing to write I guess, because nothing's truly ever been fixed anyways. I guess I just feel for everyone and it puts tears in my eyes still today 57 years in.
A very good article and a great story of how progress can happen, though it often takes time.
The PCB dumping reminds me of things like where lead smelters were located in many cities, usually in poor/minority areas and the resulting contaminations that resulted in.
Wow what a way to reclaim power! I pray his land is protected from the vultures that never intended for him or his ancestors to ever own any parts of it. 💕
Love this, I just hope he has a plan to protecting his land from resentful white folks. We know what happened to Tulsa and to countless Black towns/communities that were flooded or burned to the ground.
Fantastic story- thanks for the link to Bitter Southerner!
Already excited to also listen to the Batch pod with Lolis Elie Eric, about the environmental history of NoLa
I feel proud of this man's accomplishments. I wish him the very best. This is a story of overcoming many of white man's systemic inequality towards blacks. It angers me to read about but I cannot imagine the frustration and rage at living it.
That's a great story. Chapeau to Patrick Chandler Brown. Reclaiming part of the land and community where his forefathers lived in harsher conditions is a great character trait and demonstrates very good values. Thank you for sharing the link to that article, @phillewis.bsky.social
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Yet we cannot ever forget where this all stems from. The enemy never forgets and will pull the old playbook out with the quickness!! ✊🏾
Railroads' very existence then & now is DIRECTLY tied to profit from.. yep...slavery!
"We have had multiple conversations with the landowners"...but they wanted us to pay more for their land than the bribes to get officials to hand it to us. 🤬
I have believed for a while now that this is the direction we need to be moving in. The capitalists called us into the cities when they needed us. They do not need us anymore.
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A negro bought some land.
Now watch him destroy it.
The PCB dumping reminds me of things like where lead smelters were located in many cities, usually in poor/minority areas and the resulting contaminations that resulted in.
Already excited to also listen to the Batch pod with Lolis Elie Eric, about the environmental history of NoLa
My people are from Gates County, just next door.
The greedy white power structure is never satisfied...
We cannot let the legacy of hate infect the future.
It is our duty to fight and win. We must LOVE and SUPPORT each other. We have nothing to lose but our CHAINS.
Yet we cannot ever forget where this all stems from. The enemy never forgets and will pull the old playbook out with the quickness!! ✊🏾
Railroads' very existence then & now is DIRECTLY tied to profit from.. yep...slavery!
I really wish them good luck with this fight, we all know the way this County is feeling about Blacks and our rights.
Time to return to work the earth for ourselves.
No masters, no slaves.
Honest, healthy work.