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Speaker 4: All right, guys, welcome back Erni a Lisia. This is
Speaker 4: a highly anticipated episode. We get back in our second home, Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 4: Every time we come in a different location, man shout
Speaker 4: out to all the good people of Atlanta, shouts all
Speaker 4: the good people in Georgia, everybody in the South. So
Speaker 4: our second biggest market.
Speaker 3: That's a fact. That's a fact.
Speaker 5: So we got allowed to love out here.
Speaker 4: So you know, on Instagram, we kind of gauge things
Speaker 4: to see, like the public interest. So we first a
Speaker 4: few months ago put a story up that a town
Speaker 4: was for sale, like tom I think it was Tom'sborough Toombsboro,
Speaker 4: and everybody was going crazy. It wasn't really too much
Speaker 4: details about it. Everybody was going crazy like yo, you
Speaker 4: should buy that Black Wall Street. Da Da da, And
Speaker 4: then kind of just died down, nothing happened.
Speaker 5: And then like a couple of weeks ago, put his story.
Speaker 4: Up about nineteen black families that actually purchased ninety seven
Speaker 4: acres I think outside of that in Wilkinson County, Georgia,
Speaker 4: and it went crazy.
Speaker 5: It went viral like what's going on?
Speaker 4: And everybody was It was all kinds of comments like
Speaker 4: this is dope, this new Black Wall Street.
Speaker 5: People like no, this is racist, it's all black.
Speaker 6: Definitely, social media is crazy.
Speaker 5: It was definitely social media is crazy.
Speaker 4: It was like it was like a thousand comments, like
Speaker 4: going back and forth with each other. So you know,
Speaker 4: time had passed and Troy had actually reached out to
Speaker 4: me to ians too.
Speaker 6: As as I was watching it, she texted me the
Speaker 6: CNN video that you had. I was like, oh, I'm
Speaker 6: ready on this. I was like, we got a shot
Speaker 6: to see this. Yeah, And so part of it was
Speaker 6: like we said, yo, who wants to get them on? Like, yo,
Speaker 6: if y'all know them, hit us up. And our good friend,
Speaker 6: our partner, Ian Dunlap, was like, yo, I know one
Speaker 6: of them, do is? And he got me the number.
Speaker 6: He screenshot at me. He's like, yo, here's the number
Speaker 6: to one of them. My name is Ashley. And I
Speaker 6: was like, mat, I'm on it. I said, I'm on it,
Speaker 6: And so I hit Ashley up and she was like, hey,
Speaker 6: how you doing. I'm like, hey, Alisia. I knew she
Speaker 6: didn't know who he was about to respond. And so
Speaker 6: when we finally got to talk and she said, listen,
Speaker 6: I just spoke to my team and they know you
Speaker 6: and they love, love, love the show, and they said
Speaker 6: we would love to do it and they have to come.
Speaker 6: They have to come. So shout out shout out to
Speaker 6: Greg and shout out to to Kevin pumping us up
Speaker 6: and following that man because that led to this and
Speaker 6: your story is incredible. So I can't wait to share
Speaker 6: it with the world. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4: So yeah, So nineteen black families purchased ninety seven acres
Speaker 4: of land and they're actually building a community and it
Speaker 4: was interesting. So this is with the conversation that we're
Speaker 4: going to have. Now we have three members of the community.
Speaker 4: We have actually Scott, we have Kevin James, and we
Speaker 4: have Greg Mullins and very close, very close shout out
Speaker 4: to g he has he has a brother named Greg Millings. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's very close. So this is just a really a
Speaker 4: really encouraging story. And you know, if you follow earnerly,
Speaker 4: you know, we like to give the back stories. And
Speaker 4: I'm sure when people heard about this, it's one thing
Speaker 4: to say, Okay, that's inspirational, that's motivational, but like, what's
Speaker 4: the technical side, Like how do you just buy a community?
Speaker 4: Like how do you you know, have plumbing, how do
Speaker 4: you have how do you have a farm? How do
Speaker 4: you have all this stuff? So these are you know,
Speaker 4: hopefully the conversation that we can have. So first and foremost,
Speaker 4: thank you guys for for joining us.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it, thank you.
Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: So let's jump right into it, all right, So how
Speaker 4: do we get the idea to buy a community? Because
Speaker 4: I was reading some some research and it was like
Speaker 4: around the time I believe around George Floyd situation, and
Speaker 4: you know, it was obviously a lot of still is
Speaker 4: a lot of civil unrest and defund the police, and
Speaker 4: you know, group economics is a common theme. So how
Speaker 4: did this come about to say, okay, you know what,
Speaker 4: we're gonna buy a community and build a community.
Speaker 6: Because before you, I'll be honest with you, when I
Speaker 6: saw the meme, I was like, ain't real. But y'all
Speaker 6: saw it and said, let's take gotch what happened?
Speaker 8: But well, first off, I always have to correct people
Speaker 8: first and foremost, we didn't actually buy the town of Toombsboro. Okay, yes,
Speaker 8: we bought eight minutes away from Toombsboro in unincorporated Wilkinson County,
Speaker 8: And so when we first got down there, we were
Speaker 8: just going to be nosy. We was like, somebody fitting
Speaker 8: to buy town. Let's go see what's up. Myself, my
Speaker 8: good friend Renee, my friend Q and her lover Steve
Speaker 8: we all got on the got in the car and
Speaker 8: we was like, we're gonna go. I'm a real estate agent.
Speaker 2: And it's always so important the network, and there was
Speaker 2: so much going on. I'm like, this is my neck
Speaker 2: of the woods. I'm going down there. So when Renee.
Speaker 8: Brought it to us, because we're firm believers and affirmations
Speaker 8: and so we were.
Speaker 2: She's my account ability partner.
Speaker 8: So on the morning when Toombsboro first went viral, we
Speaker 8: were doing our affirmations and she was like, did you
Speaker 8: see the email I sent you about the Tombsborough going viral?
Speaker 2: I was like, nope, but.
Speaker 8: If I'm down, if we can buy a town for
Speaker 8: one point seven million dollars, let's figure it out. And
Speaker 8: so when we got down there, it was interesting because
Speaker 8: I was like, let's going to be a lot of work,
Speaker 8: Like the buildings are in complete need of renovation, except
Speaker 8: for some of the residents. It was like thirty it's
Speaker 8: thirty six parcels and was called an assemblage of land
Speaker 8: on forty six acres, and they were mostly commercial properties
Speaker 8: that needed some work.
Speaker 2: And one thing about commercial.
Speaker 8: Properties is it costs a lot more money to fix
Speaker 8: up a commercial property than a residential property because the
Speaker 8: fees for contractors are substantially higher, and the permits, impact fees,
Speaker 8: all of the stuff that goes on with a commercial
Speaker 8: renovation is exorbitant. So we were like, Okay, it's potential
Speaker 8: here for sure. It's about four hundred and ninety five
Speaker 8: people who actually live in the city of Tombsboro.
Speaker 2: It's predominantly black. They have a black mayor, black chief
Speaker 2: of police.
Speaker 8: So in my mind, I was like, there's definitely something here.
Speaker 8: There was like fifty other black real estate agents investors
Speaker 8: who were there at the open house that day, and
Speaker 8: from what we've heard through the grapevine is that a
Speaker 8: black woman from Philly actually ended up purchasing that assemblage.
Speaker 8: But it didn't come with the town, like it wasn't
Speaker 8: the city. There's still a mayor, they got their own
Speaker 8: city hall, there's a whole bunch of other people who
Speaker 8: still lived there. It was just thirty six different commercial
Speaker 8: spaces and a few residential units, and in my eyes,
Speaker 8: for one point seven million, I was like, this is
Speaker 8: still going to be a long haul to innovate. And
Speaker 8: we were like, let's look and see what else might
Speaker 8: be available, because somebody gonna do it might not be us.
Speaker 8: Somebody's gonna do it. So it was just like, let's
Speaker 8: see what opportunity might be available. So right down the street,
Speaker 8: eight minutes away, we found this ninety six acres of land.
Speaker 8: It was at a price that I was like, you
Speaker 8: know what, if we get enough people together, we can
Speaker 8: easily afford this. And Renee, that's my ace and we
Speaker 8: always talk about how important it is to have you know,
Speaker 8: one or two or three together can go further faster, right,
Speaker 8: So she was like, yo, I'm definitely down.
Speaker 2: We can do this ourselves.
Speaker 8: And I was like, well it was raw land, like
Speaker 8: ninety six acres of nothing but trees and land Georgia
Speaker 8: red dirt. And so we were like the infrastructure, Like
Speaker 8: you said, how would we put water in electricity?
Speaker 2: It was there is some road frontage on.
Speaker 8: The main side of the street, but on the other
Speaker 8: side of the street it's a dirt. We would have
Speaker 8: to either work with the county to get paved or
Speaker 8: pave ourselves. So me, being a business person, a real
Speaker 8: estate agent, I was like, it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 8: more infrastructure beyond just the purchase and acquiring of the land.
Speaker 8: And that's when we were in the car. We just
Speaker 8: looked at each other. I was like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 8: ten of my friends. She's like, I'll get ten of
Speaker 8: my friends, and let's go ahead and by this land
Speaker 8: and let's do this together. Let's build our own subdivision,
Speaker 8: let's build our own community. And so at the time
Speaker 8: in the car, I didn't know that it wasn't Toombsboro.
Speaker 8: After we started doing our due diligence period, that's when
Speaker 8: we found out it was an unincorporated Wilkinson County.
Speaker 6: So what's the difference between unincorporated and incorporated.
Speaker 8: The big difference is the taxes and whether or not
Speaker 8: it has a charter. And when you have a charter
Speaker 8: for an actual city that's recognized by the state, you
Speaker 8: now get state funding in state income that comes from
Speaker 8: your being a city. So all of the money that
Speaker 8: the state collects from sales tax blows all the different
Speaker 8: ways that the state makes money. When you are actual
Speaker 8: charter based on your population, you get a piece of
Speaker 8: that money for your city. And so typically the county
Speaker 8: and the unincorporated parts that is the jurisdiction of the
Speaker 8: county and you only have to deal with the county
Speaker 8: and the state and not the city. And then when
Speaker 8: you have an actual charter city, you got the city
Speaker 8: that makes the rules, has its own budgets, has its
Speaker 8: own city police, has its own fire departments. So by
Speaker 8: getting in that unincorporated part, that gives us the ability
Speaker 8: to start write a charter, to start creating our own jurisdiction.
Speaker 6: So then you would be able to create your own
Speaker 6: police force, your own fire department, your own schools.
Speaker 4: Yes, gotcha, and you'll be able to have your own
Speaker 4: political how's that working.
Speaker 8: So it would be a mayor and a city council.
Speaker 8: You'd have your city manager, your county clerk, or it's
Speaker 8: not your county, your city clerk, your city judge.
Speaker 4: So pretty much, it was a plot of land that
Speaker 4: was under the counties. It's in the county, but it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Under a city's jis.
Speaker 5: It was juris at all.
Speaker 8: Under the county and the state. So some counties have
Speaker 8: more restrictions than others.
Speaker 2: And the good thing about being in the South is
Speaker 2: that we.
Speaker 8: Have this idea of not being involved in big government.
Speaker 8: That's really what the South really was fighting for. It's
Speaker 8: fighting for a lot of stuff, but this idea that
Speaker 8: you can't tell me what to do.
Speaker 2: I get to determine for myself.
Speaker 8: How I treat my property, how I treat my my business,
Speaker 8: my livelihood, my justice.
Speaker 2: My property.
Speaker 8: That's the ideology of the South is that we want
Speaker 8: smaller government and more control over our local politics, our
Speaker 8: local economy. That's that ideal. So the county doesn't have
Speaker 8: a lot of rules. They got Aroozona no ordinances beyond
Speaker 8: a two page subdivision ordinance. So when you are thinking
Speaker 8: about doing a concept like this, that gives you the
Speaker 8: room and the ability to create what you want, create
Speaker 8: your own laws, and we have the ability to do that.
Speaker 8: That's the American dream is that we can create what
Speaker 8: we want. We can pursue liberty and justice how we choose,
Speaker 8: and being a law maker is all right. So we
Speaker 8: have to start making our own rules, making our own laws,
Speaker 8: and letting the law serve us for a change.
Speaker 2: And so I didn't come up with this.
Speaker 8: What happened was I watched the city of Stonecrust do
Speaker 8: it two years ago, and they've got a ninety eight
Speaker 8: point nine percent African American population.
Speaker 2: We got a dope black mayor named Mayor Jason.
Speaker 8: Larry, ninety eight point nine.
Speaker 5: Percent, the one like, what is that.
Speaker 2: It's a couple of white folks, you.
Speaker 8: Know, before we came and started building our city.
Speaker 2: Because it's it's on the outskirts.
Speaker 8: It's not it's an east it's east of Atlanta, and
Speaker 8: it's got beautiful landscape, Arabia Mountain, it's got the Stonecrust Mall,
Speaker 8: and had industry, had resources, and we just took.
Speaker 2: It over essentially called Stonecrust City of Stone, CT.
Speaker 5: How big is that?
Speaker 8: Don't give me the lion right now because I don't
Speaker 8: want to miss close, but it is. It's a it's
Speaker 8: a decent size if I'm not mistaken. It is one
Speaker 8: of the largest cities in the in the county of
Speaker 8: the Cab County. And so yeah, so the Cab County
Speaker 8: still has the jurisdiction too, and some counties are more
Speaker 8: hands on the others, Like the Cavs got big government here,
Speaker 8: Like they got a police department in jail, Yeah, like
Speaker 8: they got So you have to be strategic. And so
Speaker 8: Wilkinson County, we've been having great, exceptional experiences with the
Speaker 8: sheriff there, with the.
Speaker 2: County manager there.
Speaker 8: They're all black and they're cool, intelligent, Black excellence is
Speaker 8: what we found in Wilkinson County already and it's a
Speaker 8: little slower, yes, but and it's in that mode of
Speaker 8: wanting to develop. So we get to come here and
Speaker 8: we can help develop this county, which is really exciting.
Speaker 6: So when you decide like, yeah, we're going to do this,
Speaker 6: you're going to Wilson County to say like, yes, we
Speaker 6: want this land.
Speaker 2: No, it's not that I.
Speaker 8: Go to Wilkinson County. Wilkinson County doesn't own the land.
Speaker 8: There are people who own the land like regular folks
Speaker 8: own the land. And so this particular piece of land
Speaker 8: was for sale, was listed for sale. It had been
Speaker 8: owned by released By Lumber company. So this is very wooded,
Speaker 8: very it's raw land, and it's six minutes away from
Speaker 8: the Oconee River. Six it's right along the balls Ferry
Speaker 8: National Park, which is a newly named national park. So
Speaker 8: there's just certain things as far as development is concerned,
Speaker 8: that makes this an exciting opportunity.
Speaker 3: Worter is a big one.
Speaker 5: So let me ask, Let me ask Kevin. Let me
Speaker 5: ask you this question.
Speaker 4: Because you're an entrepreneur, So all right, I think everybody
Speaker 4: has like different skill sets, right, so you you agreed
Speaker 4: to be you know, a founding member in this community.
Speaker 4: And but as an entrepreneur, you know, like no community
Speaker 4: can thirst can flourish without business. So did you think, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna buy into this, but we need to have
Speaker 4: a store. We eventually we need to have a bank.
Speaker 4: Like what's your thoughts on how to develop from the
Speaker 4: economic side of things, Like, as far as right now,
Speaker 4: it's just it's just land and then you guys are
Speaker 4: gonna build, So like, what's the steps to actually get
Speaker 4: it up and running the houses, stores, things that nature.
Speaker 7: To answer your first question, yes, I immediately started going into
Speaker 7: entrepreneurial mode and I was just like, okay, well, let's
Speaker 7: start connecting the dots.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: Its sound like you're building a house where you need
Speaker 7: to lay the foundation. That foundation is the land check.
Speaker 7: Now you need to put in your beams, your studs,
Speaker 7: your drywall, things of that nature. So we're kind of
Speaker 7: dressing it up. Definitely need local businesses. You know, we
Speaker 7: said that we want to be the change that we
Speaker 7: want to see in the world, and we said it
Speaker 7: all the time, even in the Zoom. You know, we
Speaker 7: need an assistant, we need an accountant, we need this,
Speaker 7: we need that, we let's work from it inside first,
Speaker 7: inside the group internally, and then if we don't have
Speaker 7: the skill set to do that, then we can go
Speaker 7: ahead and reach outward, you know.
Speaker 9: And that's the same thing with any business.
Speaker 7: You know, if you have somebody in your family that
Speaker 7: makes cupcakes, why are you going down the street to
Speaker 7: go buy cupcakes? You know, go have your auntie naked
Speaker 7: or what have you. So that was my whole thing
Speaker 7: when I got put onto it, like cool, this is
Speaker 7: I'm already doing this. Now we get to do this
Speaker 7: with eighteen other people.
Speaker 6: I want to go with that number eighteen or nineteen
Speaker 6: because I'm prior to hearing it. When I heard the story,
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, okay, And as you kind of said it,
Speaker 6: like I'll find out of my friends. You find none
Speaker 6: of your friends, and it sounds great, like none of
Speaker 6: your friends, and like, okay, and that's eighteen and we'll
Speaker 6: do this together.
Speaker 3: But you guys didn't know each other.
Speaker 6: What was that process of getting to know these these
Speaker 6: these gentlemen and these these families.
Speaker 10: Well, it was, it was it just definitely a different process. We,
Speaker 10: like you said, a lot of different personalities are coming
Speaker 10: into a mix, and we were actually being introduced through
Speaker 10: zoom and so you know, you don't really get a
Speaker 10: good feel of like how this person really is, how
Speaker 10: they talk when they're you know, when you're around them,
Speaker 10: and shaking hands.
Speaker 9: And all that good stuff. So you know, in the beginning,
Speaker 9: it was it was always loved.
Speaker 10: We always have the same motivation, you know, to become
Speaker 10: just to make to make this thing really really big,
Speaker 10: and so it was we had that going and then
Speaker 10: you know as time went time goes on, you sort
Speaker 10: of learned the personalities and stuff like that, so you
Speaker 10: get used to people and then you know, most of
Speaker 10: the people are coming with their spouses, so you know,
Speaker 10: you know, like you have the me and my wife
Speaker 10: are there, and my wife knows Ashley, so through me
Speaker 10: through her, I met Kevin and all the other guys
Speaker 10: and stuff like that. So you know, we had a
Speaker 10: former bond and kind of just go from there. It's
Speaker 10: like like I said, we always have the same we
Speaker 10: have the same wavation, so we we just stick with
Speaker 10: that kind of you know, kind of just happened. We had
Speaker 10: the same extracurricular activities as well. You know, we like
Speaker 10: the same books and the same fun things that we
Speaker 10: do outside of work, you know, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: So so this started as a Zoomian.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know what, I didn't get that, like we did,
Speaker 6: we miss that.
Speaker 8: A lot of people felt the same way though, Like
Speaker 8: there's a lot of people who looked up and was mad.
Speaker 2: At us, like a man.
Speaker 9: You know what, I noticed a lot of people wanted
Speaker 9: more for me.
Speaker 10: A lot of people, I feel a lot of people
Speaker 10: wanted more information than what we can give.
Speaker 5: But it wasn't but.
Speaker 9: It wasn't even that we had it to give.
Speaker 10: It was more like figuring out that, you know, we
Speaker 10: were figuring out that we were going on and if
Speaker 10: you weren't with that, then that you just went with that.
Speaker 2: And some people don't be with that.
Speaker 8: You know, there's different types of people that you got
Speaker 8: the people who just like, look, I just want to
Speaker 8: be with my friends.
Speaker 2: You got the people like I need to know all
Speaker 2: the facts. You got the people.
Speaker 9: I'm just wing to sound like, you know.
Speaker 10: And then at the time it was like, you know,
Speaker 10: it's like you know, like you were saying the George
Speaker 10: Floord thing, it was just so much happening, and for me,
Speaker 10: I just.
Speaker 9: Had to get away.
Speaker 10: I wanted to get to escape to I'm tired of
Speaker 10: having to travel of this here and there another just
Speaker 10: to get away for a little while. You know, I
Speaker 10: get to go two hours down the road to have
Speaker 10: that getaway to that so often need, like this is
Speaker 10: what I'm here for.
Speaker 9: That's how that's how it started.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I look at it like like we got drafted, right,
Speaker 7: and Renee and Ashley were the ones, you know, the
Speaker 7: commissioners if you will, And they were like, you know,
Speaker 7: who would we want to be like neighbors with, Like
Speaker 7: who would we see ourselves living with. Let's just go
Speaker 7: get a bunch of cool people and see if they
Speaker 7: want to get down, you know. And I was just
Speaker 7: less to be one of them. You know, I only
Speaker 7: knew Ashley, you know, I got on the zoom and
Speaker 7: they were like eighteen other faces. I was just like, yeah,
Speaker 7: some people are marriage, some people have spousals, some people
Speaker 7: have you know, they went to high school together. And
Speaker 7: then there's me, you know, and they're like, who is
Speaker 7: this dude?
Speaker 5: Right right right? You know.
Speaker 7: So we're still kind of working out those kind of dynamics,
Speaker 7: but it's it's all part of the journey.
Speaker 5: So no embrace.
Speaker 4: Actually you were saying that so you're talking telling me,
Speaker 4: like the steps. Now you have to find an architect
Speaker 4: and you have to can you talk about that, because
Speaker 4: like it's one thing, all right, So you get the land,
Speaker 4: you get you get the families.
Speaker 5: Everybody agrees to it. Now you just have one hundred acres.
Speaker 8: It's a lot of money, a lot of money. Step
Speaker 8: the step is a mass as much money as.
Speaker 2: You can, right, so listen.
Speaker 8: It literally starts with buying the land. That's the easiest. First,
Speaker 8: that's the easiest part is buying the land, setting up
Speaker 8: the LLC so that we could buy the land.
Speaker 2: We did that two days. That's easy.
Speaker 8: The harder parts are spending that money on the photographical
Speaker 8: survey to find out what the topography is and whether
Speaker 8: or not you can build. If it's too steep here
Speaker 8: that means you can't build here, soil samples, percolation tests,
Speaker 8: water testing, environmental testing, environmental impact fees.
Speaker 2: There's always another step.
Speaker 8: And then because we have such a massive project, it's
Speaker 8: not just one hundred acres, like to be a city,
Speaker 8: we need at least six hundred and forty acres a
Speaker 8: square mile radius. So you constantly like, okay, that means
Speaker 8: we got to acquire more land. So you have to
Speaker 8: negotiate the next conversation with the neighbors, like a neighbor,
Speaker 8: can I get your land so that we can get
Speaker 8: this puzzle piece going, so that we can eventually have
Speaker 8: enough of the requirements meant to push a charter through
Speaker 8: the legislature.
Speaker 3: So if this is like building blocks, this is just
Speaker 3: the first piece.
Speaker 5: Nothing.
Speaker 3: Still get a few more pieces to make it a city.
Speaker 8: Yeah, action and the people, because you got to have
Speaker 8: at least two hundred residents, and so every little thing
Speaker 8: is strategic and even the politics of it all making
Speaker 8: sure that Wilkinson County knows that we're here to help
Speaker 8: uplift them.
Speaker 2: We're here to add value to the county.
Speaker 8: If we can attract more people to the area, that
Speaker 8: means Toombsboro, Goarton, Ivy, all of those people doubling. They
Speaker 8: get to benefit from that economic development too of now
Speaker 8: having more people in the area. So there's so many
Speaker 8: different things. But technically, yes, you have to get a
Speaker 8: civil engineer. From the civil engineer, he's going to just
Speaker 8: do like, Okay, this is your roads, this is your setbacks,
Speaker 8: this is your stormwater runoff, this is your waste water management.
Speaker 8: A waste water management system state of the art can
Speaker 8: cost a million dollars, and that's.
Speaker 2: If you're doing it like top of the line and
Speaker 2: you're trying to be eco friendly.
Speaker 8: And that's our goal. Our goal is to build the
Speaker 8: best and so taking the time to research and find like,
Speaker 8: who is the best, who is the person that can
Speaker 8: create as a black person, because sometimes I don't want
Speaker 8: to put it this way because I think we have
Speaker 8: enough talent to do everything ourselves, but sometimes the people
Speaker 8: who are most qualified might not be black. So then
Speaker 8: we have to look at, well, what does that look
Speaker 8: like when we have to go to an ally and say, hey,
Speaker 8: can you partner with this subcontractor or the sub vendor
Speaker 8: so that we can put some black people onto the project,
Speaker 8: because y'all the only ones who.
Speaker 2: Can do it.
Speaker 8: Because that's all of the types of things that we're navigating.
Speaker 8: Even when we talk about we're going to have to
Speaker 8: put homeowners insurance on every single house that we build
Speaker 8: in Freedom, we would love to be able to put
Speaker 8: a black homeowner's insurance. Be the writer, the person who
Speaker 8: writes the policy, not the person who writes the policy,
Speaker 8: but the actual insurance agency. We don't have a black
Speaker 8: owned insurance agency. We got Guico State Farm ain't no
Speaker 8: black ones. So that's the kind of stuff that we
Speaker 8: are always thinking about when it comes to this journey
Speaker 8: of building a community that meets all of our needs
Speaker 8: and that is pro black and allows us to really
Speaker 8: support black businesses in that way, because we that's what
Speaker 8: our goal is every step of the way. We want
Speaker 8: to put black businesses on and so looking at how
Speaker 8: do we do that, how do we hire the best
Speaker 8: civil engineer, the best city planner, Because after you hire
Speaker 8: the civil engineer, he lays out the roads. Now somebody's
Speaker 8: got a plan. Okay, the subdivision is going to go here,
Speaker 8: this subdivision is going to go there.
Speaker 2: This is where the.
Speaker 8: Agricultural goes, this is where the industrial goes. And if
Speaker 8: we don't want to have polluted air, we might need
Speaker 8: to move industry way over here. If we need the
Speaker 8: you know, waste water management, and how can we utilize
Speaker 8: permit culture so that everything's regenerative.
Speaker 2: Like we having those kinds of conversations.
Speaker 4: So I feel this is like, you know, Sims, that's why.
Speaker 3: Mike might used to kill that.
Speaker 6: We used to catch them in the computer room in
Speaker 6: eighth grade.
Speaker 5: That founts.
Speaker 4: But So and SIMS if anybody's not familiar, SIMS was
Speaker 4: a video game back in the days. Was a computer
Speaker 4: game where you can build your own city. So this
Speaker 4: sounds like it reminds me of SIMS. So and your brain. All,
Speaker 4: I want to get all of your opinions on this.
Speaker 4: How do you envision your city looking like right now,
Speaker 4: it's just land, but in the perfect world if everything
Speaker 4: goes perfect, which never nothing ever goes perfect. But how
Speaker 4: what's your blueprint in your brain that you want a bank,
Speaker 4: you want a school, you want what do you?
Speaker 5: What do you? What are you envision in the in
Speaker 5: the community.
Speaker 8: But I wasna say, y'all hear it, And everybody's got
Speaker 8: a different vision. Like when I think, because at the
Speaker 8: end of the day, I'm a relator, so I always
Speaker 8: kind of go back to the real estate.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, it's going to be.
Speaker 8: Different subdivisions, some kinds because I don't never want to
Speaker 8: live nowhere where every house look the same, but some
Speaker 8: people like the uniformity of I want every house on
Speaker 8: my subdivision to look the same. And when I think
Speaker 8: about building freedom, I want people to have choices. I
Speaker 8: think that's what freedom is genuinely about So we got
Speaker 8: the misers. That's like, look, I want a little subdivision
Speaker 8: where I can have v We're gonna put them way
Speaker 8: in the back. You can hear I see having different communities,
Speaker 8: different vibes where we're not all on top of each other.
Speaker 8: Because it's rural and it's beautiful. We got a lot
Speaker 8: of wildlife, lots of animals. We don't want to run
Speaker 8: them all. We want to be as eco friendly and
Speaker 8: as environmentally and naturally in harmony as we can because
Speaker 8: the land is just gorgeous, so like it won't be
Speaker 8: a whole bunch of skyscrapers or none of that, because
Speaker 8: the rural beauty of this scenic landscape is the selling.
Speaker 3: Point real quick.
Speaker 6: Because I'm thinking, like, even when you said the waste
Speaker 6: management piece of it, yes, eco friendly, But as you're
Speaker 6: building it, are you building it for the ninety seven
Speaker 6: acres first, or you're building it with the intent that, yo,
Speaker 6: we're going to acquire more land.
Speaker 2: Is that what we absolutely are doing it with the
Speaker 2: intent to acquire more land.
Speaker 3: Got you? Got you?
Speaker 6: And the other part was said, two hundred people have
Speaker 6: to live there? How many acres does it have to be?
Speaker 8: So technically, because we of the jurisdiction of Wilkinson is
Speaker 8: it is it.
Speaker 3: A state mandate or is it a county man's a.
Speaker 8: County mandate typically, but so we this is raw, right,
Speaker 8: so they don't have everybody out there in this area
Speaker 8: that they told us. We thought Tombsboro was the bulldogs.
Speaker 8: They told us where we Bortland was the bulldogs.
Speaker 2: They were like, oh, you in the boon Dog. I
Speaker 2: was like, sir, you think so they're they're on well,
Speaker 2: they're on septic right now.
Speaker 8: So county code means that anybody builds there has to
Speaker 8: have at least an acre, a minimum of an acre
Speaker 8: to put your well in your septic tank on for.
Speaker 3: Your home, like a water well.
Speaker 2: A waterwall, like you got a jail. Yeah, excuse me.
Speaker 2: So we do have, you know, awesome technology.
Speaker 8: I got all everywhere I go, Like, I shout out
Speaker 8: to Moses West. He has atmospheric water generation technology that
Speaker 8: literally separates the hydrogen and oxygen particles from the air
Speaker 8: to generate gallons thousands of gallons a day. His technology
Speaker 8: is a piece of technology that they utilized in Puerto
Speaker 8: Rico to bring freshwater to Puerto Rico after the hurricane hit,
Speaker 8: So like we have black excellence all around us, and
Speaker 8: so being able to implement those kinds of technologies is
Speaker 8: what we want to do. We want That's why when
Speaker 8: I wrote my Black Blavity piece, my Opta, I said,
Speaker 8: we can have what kind of like we really can,
Speaker 8: Like the sky is not even the limit. Like anything
Speaker 8: we can conceive, we can create, and there are so
Speaker 8: many people already out here doing it, doing it dope,
Speaker 8: like doing some dope things. So being able to attract
Speaker 8: those kinds of resources and those kinds of people has
Speaker 8: been the most exciting part about it, and which is
Speaker 8: one of the reasons why we went public. Because everybody
Speaker 8: always talk about you know, on conversations on social media.
Speaker 2: I people talk too much. I should have kept it
Speaker 2: to y'allself, and.
Speaker 8: I'm just like, but we would not have inspired a
Speaker 8: generation people all over the world. We wouldn't have been
Speaker 8: able to attract the resources people like, look, I will
Speaker 8: help you do this because they want to see this succeed.
Speaker 2: Because we had so many black cities that were burnt down.
Speaker 8: To completely destroyed for no reason other than white aggression
Speaker 8: and jealousy in misdirection. And so this is a chance
Speaker 8: for our ancestors do something that can honor them because
Speaker 8: they were so talented, they had so many dreams, so
Speaker 8: many prayers, and to be the answer to those prayers
Speaker 8: is what this moment is about.
Speaker 6: So I'm going to ask all three of you a question,
Speaker 6: and ask I've heard you speak about it before, but
Speaker 6: the importance and you use the word a safe haven
Speaker 6: for black families, what does that look like and how
Speaker 6: does that come about?
Speaker 3: I guess all three of you can answer really.
Speaker 9: Uh okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 7: So growing up, like I'm from New York too, and
Speaker 7: we used to have the Pledge of allegiance. This is
Speaker 7: this is what I was saying on the zoom, but
Speaker 7: the zoom the audio went out a little bit Pledge
Speaker 7: of allegiance. You stand to your feet, you put your
Speaker 7: hand over your heart, turn to the flag. All right,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna spare you the words. But at the end
Speaker 7: it says liberty and justice for all, and that wasn't
Speaker 7: really reflected in my neighborhood. I was a little confused
Speaker 7: growing up, you know, like every day you brainwashing us
Speaker 7: to say this, but that's not what I'm seeing, you
Speaker 7: know what I mean, where's the liberty and justice for
Speaker 7: all the all part, you know. So I guess I
Speaker 7: started my path to just kind of go down and
Speaker 7: have it make sense for me eventually, you know. So
Speaker 7: networking that's how it became an entrepreneur.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: It just didn't feel right, you know, going and making
Speaker 7: somebody else rich and you know, getting the peanuts and
Speaker 7: not really getting the the respect that I needed, Like
Speaker 7: I'm running this company, you know, so just trying to
Speaker 7: make that make sense, you know. So I do that
Speaker 7: with my family, with my friends, with people I meet strangers,
Speaker 7: you know, because that's the change I want to see
Speaker 7: in the world. So I live that, you know. So
Speaker 7: that's what that looks like for me. People that have
Speaker 7: a vision that may not have the support that they
Speaker 7: may that they may need. You know, it's tough being
Speaker 7: an entrepreneur, I know, you know how many man just
Speaker 7: as my mom still wants me to be a pilot
Speaker 7: to this day.
Speaker 5: To this day.
Speaker 7: Sorry Mom, it's not happy you no, But but for
Speaker 7: those people who need that support, that's all it takes.
Speaker 7: You know, you have a vision, you may not have
Speaker 7: the little components that you may need, but your neighbor
Speaker 7: might have it. Your cousin's friend might have it, you know,
Speaker 7: somebody went to high school with, might know somebody you know.
Speaker 7: Get that network together right and then you can achieve that,
Speaker 7: you know. But the key thing with that is getting
Speaker 7: the right mindset. So we don't want that kind of
Speaker 7: mindset in our land, in our world. Know that mindset
Speaker 7: is everything, just everything. You know, if you think you
Speaker 7: can or you think you can't, probably right, oh right,
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying. So you know, I gotta
Speaker 7: think actually again for you know, we talk even before this,
Speaker 7: you know, offline about a lot of different entrepreneurial experiences
Speaker 7: and things that we wanted to do. But it's because
Speaker 7: of the mindset. I wouldn't have conversations I have with her,
Speaker 7: with you know, my neighbor who doesn't have.
Speaker 3: The mindset for it.
Speaker 7: So that's the kind of people that we want to see.
Speaker 7: That's the safe haven. When we say the safe haven,
Speaker 7: it's not only from police and things of that nature,
Speaker 7: but it's from all forms of oppression. Oppression is not
Speaker 7: just police, you know, that could be negative vibes from
Speaker 7: a spouse or from a loved one, or from your boss,
Speaker 7: or from your neighbor or your parents, or from whoever,
Speaker 7: you know, So a place where you can feel free
Speaker 7: to experience life and you don't have to worry about
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff and you can really focus on
Speaker 7: your dream and your mission, you know. So you know,
Speaker 7: I'm glad you brought that up because we're gonna be
Speaker 7: need a lot of help. So we're here to here
Speaker 7: today too to reach out, you know, like you know,
Speaker 7: people of like minds. If this is something that speaks
Speaker 7: to your soul, speaks to your spirit, please reach out
Speaker 7: to us, you know, reach.
Speaker 10: Out to us. A safe even for me, you know,
Speaker 10: similar to what you guys were saying as well. You know,
Speaker 10: I have I have an eight year old son and
Speaker 10: a nine year old nephew that stayed with me and everything,
Speaker 10: and it's like, you know, they get to go outside
Speaker 10: and not have to worry about microaggressions from you know,
Speaker 10: a neighbor who doesn't understand their culture, you know, riding
Speaker 10: down the street on their bike and he might be
Speaker 10: too close to the cars and now he's calling the
Speaker 10: police or throwing rocks or something like that. You know,
Speaker 10: they can really just be free, like literally be free.
Speaker 10: You know, you go outside and you don't have to
Speaker 10: worry about where they're at, and you're gonna want to know,
Speaker 10: you know, just because but you don't have to worry
Speaker 10: about where they're like really worried. Because I'm Aberund. My
Speaker 10: dad was in the military. I used to leave the
Speaker 10: house at eight o'clock in the morning and not show
Speaker 10: up until now, No one ever worried about where I was.
Speaker 10: I mean, my parents never showed the interesting me. They
Speaker 10: showed the interest, but they weren't worried. I know, they
Speaker 10: weren't worried, And so that's what the same tabe is
Speaker 10: for me. Then also this whole land you know, this
Speaker 10: whole experience is it not just the safe haven. It's
Speaker 10: more of like retribution, Like we're getting land back. We're
Speaker 10: taking land that was taken away from people in my
Speaker 10: family from years ago. I'm like, as this is becoming,
Speaker 10: you know, as I'm getting more involved with this, you know,
Speaker 10: I'm talking to my family members and knowing more because
Speaker 10: you know, I'm involved with this, and they're telling me
Speaker 10: stories of things that happened to them, you know in
Speaker 10: the forties and the fifties, how land was literally just
Speaker 10: taken from them.
Speaker 9: Like like you know what, this is not yours? Anymore.
Speaker 5: I'm taking it.
Speaker 9: You can't do anything.
Speaker 5: About it, you know.
Speaker 10: So I'm like, wow, I didn't even like I had
Speaker 10: no ideas even happen in my family. But now I'm
Speaker 10: learning about the history of my family, not just mine.
Speaker 10: It's so many people in the South who have land
Speaker 10: like literally taken from them, like just just because they
Speaker 10: were black, no other reason than that, just because you
Speaker 10: were black.
Speaker 9: I want this land.
Speaker 10: It's mine now, So all these like you know, especially
Speaker 10: in Concord, Georgia. You know it's owned by one family,
Speaker 10: but that one family literally was taking land away from
Speaker 10: black people. It was like, it was wow, Like my
Speaker 10: generation is a part of that. Like my cousin, one
Speaker 10: of my older cousins, Remember, he literally remembers the house
Speaker 10: burning down because they burned it down in order to
Speaker 10: get that land.
Speaker 5: That it was that serious.
Speaker 9: I hadn't mean, I had no idea, you know what
Speaker 9: I'm saying.
Speaker 10: None of these conversations were had just because you know,
Speaker 10: they kind of wanted to get rid of those memories,
Speaker 10: and now this is kind of brought them back up.
Speaker 10: Like I told them, like, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 10: speak for you guys. I'm gonna make sure that you know,
Speaker 10: people know your story and I'm this land is for
Speaker 10: y'all too, so you can come up here and get
Speaker 10: some red dirt play wherever.
Speaker 5: You want to do, you know.
Speaker 6: So that's that's that's what it means as well, just
Speaker 6: going through that process, discovering that and now, yes, that's crazy,
Speaker 6: that's amazing.
Speaker 4: Because this sounds like a very costly project as far as,
Speaker 4: like you said, even the sewage system.
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Speaker 5: A million dollars? So can you get loans for this
Speaker 5: type of project?
Speaker 2: Or yes, we can get loans.
Speaker 4: Just can you talk about like how does get loan
Speaker 4: for something that's not built? Like, well, how does that work?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So, I mean, first of all, we're in rural lands,
Speaker 8: so we get USDA opportunities for our agricultural USDA loans.
Speaker 5: We haven't talked about that yet, but that's something that
Speaker 5: people should be very very.
Speaker 8: Aware aware, especially if you're talking about building a house
Speaker 8: in the rural area.
Speaker 2: It's a zero down payment.
Speaker 5: Can you talk about that, yeah, USDA, Yeah, So.
Speaker 8: The United States Department of Agriculture pretty much get guarantees
Speaker 8: that you go through a bank, le your traditional bank.
Speaker 8: You let them know that I'm purchasing in this area.
Speaker 8: It's similar to like even a VA loan. You qualify
Speaker 8: for a VA loan by being a honorably discharged veteran
Speaker 8: or you could be still in the Armed forces. But
Speaker 8: it's a zero down loan, and our federal government backs
Speaker 8: those loans, so if you didn't pay it, they would
Speaker 8: be responsible for it. So the threshold for requirements are
Speaker 8: a little lower than traditional conventional loans. So that's why
Speaker 8: you're able to get that loan at zero down versus
Speaker 8: having to put your twenty percent down because the government
Speaker 8: backs it. You go through a regular bank, you can
Speaker 8: go through a land bank or what's known as an
Speaker 8: agricultural bank, a credit union, and you just say, hey,
Speaker 8: I want to purchase this land in this rural area.
Speaker 8: It does have to qualify based on the zip code
Speaker 8: it's in but if it does meet those qualifications. When
Speaker 8: you meet certain qualifications, then you'll be able to purchase
Speaker 8: it through their zero down program.
Speaker 4: So so you got the USDA loans and any other
Speaker 4: type of like regular banks, they can their loan money
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, And so the key is to have a good
Speaker 8: credit score.
Speaker 2: Make sure the people.
Speaker 8: If you're talking about getting a loan for your business,
Speaker 8: everybody in the business needs to also have good credit.
Speaker 2: So credit is essential.
Speaker 8: It's the essential thing in this game is making sure
Speaker 8: that credit score. Everybody should be shooting for at least
Speaker 8: a seven hundred. I would love to see eight hundreds.
Speaker 8: But the reality is the thing that keeps a lot
Speaker 8: of people from progressing in life is the ability to
Speaker 8: leverage credit. And the way that you leverage credit is
Speaker 8: by having that credit score. And you have to show
Speaker 8: those income streams. You need to be able to show
Speaker 8: that you have cash flow and revenue streams coming in
Speaker 8: so that you can get as much credit as you
Speaker 8: possibly can. So right now we're at that place because
Speaker 8: we're a brand new business. It's hard for for us
Speaker 8: to get traditional credit right now without having assets and
Speaker 8: to show that we got income streams. We don't have
Speaker 8: income streams yet because we're building a town, so we
Speaker 8: have to take the route of working with a hard
Speaker 8: money lender, and that's private money that has a little
Speaker 8: less stringent underwriting. So there's a million ways to skin
Speaker 8: a cat. The most important thing is to make sure
Speaker 8: that your credit score is as high as it possibly
Speaker 8: can be.
Speaker 2: And so that leads me to.
Speaker 8: I'm a brand ambassador for a black owned, not black
Speaker 8: managed credit and business financing and funding company called Novay Money,
Speaker 8: and so that organization actually helps people to increase their
Speaker 8: credit score, helps them to establish business credit and access funding,
Speaker 8: because that's what we need to actually be able to
Speaker 8: build our businesses, is that good credit and that access
Speaker 8: to capital. And since venture capitalists traditionally are still not
Speaker 8: funding black businesses, all of.
Speaker 2: The research is dismal.
Speaker 8: Even now, even after all these people came out and
Speaker 8: said black lives matter, we ready to support y'all, nothing
Speaker 8: has changed in the venture capitalist space. So we have
Speaker 8: to have this ability to access money through our black
Speaker 8: banks like Unity Bank, like Citizens Trust Bank, one United Bank,
Speaker 8: having those relationships Unity Bank and that credit score because
Speaker 8: they can only do so much, Like you can't go
Speaker 8: to the bank without no income streams and without and
Speaker 8: with poor credit. So it's up to us to make
Speaker 8: sure that we're educated, we're financially educated, that we understand
Speaker 8: the entire credit pie because the reality is you could
Speaker 8: have missed a few payments. That's not the only way
Speaker 8: to increase your credit score. You can increase your credit
Speaker 8: score by opening additional lines of credit. You can increase
Speaker 8: your credit score by making sure your oldest line of
Speaker 8: credit doesn't close, that you keep that open forever in
Speaker 8: your history. Like, there's these pieces to the pie that
Speaker 8: we have to become more educated about. And when we
Speaker 8: are able, for every eight hundred creates one hundred thousand
Speaker 8: of leverage.
Speaker 6: So when you and shout Rene, because Rene has been
Speaker 6: emailing you back and forth shouting when you were in
Speaker 6: the quote unquote drafting, is that some of the criteria
Speaker 6: You're like, listen, guys, if you want to be part
Speaker 6: of this, this is no.
Speaker 2: I wasn't. Yeah, it was after the day, and that
Speaker 2: now we have to contend with. Yeah, I'm in real
Speaker 2: estate agent. I'm like, look, we just gonna get this land.
Speaker 2: Like I was like, who got this check?
Speaker 8: And so everybody came up with the board I land
Speaker 8: like so no, in that case, No, we do have
Speaker 8: We do have some people in our collective as exceptional credit.
Speaker 2: We have some people who have challenge credit. I have.
Speaker 8: I'm just now getting to the place where I'm not
Speaker 8: so challenged, you know, like it's a journey, and we
Speaker 8: have to just be honest and have these kinds of
Speaker 8: conversations because it's not impossible. You just have to have
Speaker 8: the right education and right partners and accountability partners are everything.
Speaker 2: People like Kevin when he started talking about his CRIS,
Speaker 2: I'm like, get my game.
Speaker 8: To make sure I got my little self together. I'm like,
Speaker 8: I want to be able to go get my.
Speaker 2: R V too.
Speaker 8: So those are the conversations that you have with you know,
Speaker 8: like we keep saying, like minded individuals, we go further
Speaker 8: faster together.
Speaker 2: That credit is everything.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think it's dope because you're growing together.
Speaker 6: But you're also educating each other. Right, So you didn't
Speaker 6: come in with that education, but now everybody's on the
Speaker 6: same plan and everybody's educating each other. I want to
Speaker 6: go back to the land because I heard and I
Speaker 6: read the first thing that you guys are doing is
Speaker 6: building out the agriculture and the farming.
Speaker 3: You talk about why that's so important.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean food is everything. Like we watch enough
Speaker 8: Walking Dig Stop playing with me, y'all. We watch enough
Speaker 8: Walking Dead and enough of these Hollywood shows to know
Speaker 8: when it all goes down and it's fee out, money
Speaker 8: start crashing, what we're gonna need to eat and some water.
Speaker 8: So that's why farming comes first around here.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 8: Granted, we've been doing more events first because that's just
Speaker 8: a revenue stream that's quick and easy. Camp out events.
Speaker 8: We got dope musicians and our collective. My husband's a musician,
Speaker 8: our friend Q is a dope song stress, my pastor
Speaker 8: and first Lady, our dope our ministry and worship leaders.
Speaker 8: So we have dope events like our jam sessions be lit.
Speaker 8: So the events are one of the first things that
Speaker 8: we've been doing because that's like the lowest cost barrier
Speaker 8: that we can start generating revenue from because you just
Speaker 8: need the land, right.
Speaker 3: So is that what the Big Black.
Speaker 2: Bank jobs were coming to the Big.
Speaker 6: Black camp Out because I might go camping, get some
Speaker 6: people camping.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of people. Can people came from.
Speaker 3: All over then tell everybody what it is.
Speaker 8: So the Big Black camp Out is our annual event
Speaker 8: where we are encouraging black families to get outdoors. We
Speaker 8: hashtag Diversify Outdoors because there's an entire black camping culture
Speaker 8: like shout out the Melanated Camp, Black Urban Camp Weekend.
Speaker 8: It's so many Black girls camp like this. We we
Speaker 8: be outside, we be doing stuff like I don't know,
Speaker 8: everybody trying to act like we're not out here getting
Speaker 8: this fresh air and living our best life in nature
Speaker 8: and outdoors because we do. And so we had really
Speaker 8: cool people outdoors men, sportsmen and just regular for who
Speaker 8: had never been camping before, who would have never went
Speaker 8: camping if it wasn't a group event, because it's like, you.
Speaker 12: Know, like I'm not going out there with no bears.
Speaker 8: Wild wild, boar wild, and you know, but camping together collectively.
Speaker 2: It was so dope.
Speaker 8: People really enjoyed it and people bought their their r vs.
Speaker 2: Like it was so fun.
Speaker 8: And we we had music, we had live performances, we
Speaker 8: had the vendors out. We really just enjoyed ourselves and
Speaker 8: we're gonna do it every year.
Speaker 2: It's gonna just get bigger and better.
Speaker 10: People were so comfortable they literally slipt outside on the
Speaker 10: on the ground.
Speaker 5: When was it?
Speaker 3: When was it labor? We're talking like campfires and.
Speaker 4: That was that was a fundraiser to have the fund. Okay,
Speaker 4: so are you guys recruiting lack of a better word,
Speaker 4: are you recruiting other people or like somebody saying, Okay,
Speaker 4: I want to be part of this movement, part of
Speaker 4: this community. Do they go online and sign up? Do
Speaker 4: they can they make donations? Like what's get drafted?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give y'all a little secret sauce. I like y'all.
Speaker 8: Two ways you get drafted right. First way is the
Speaker 8: easiest way. Go to www dot Freedom Georgia dot com.
Speaker 8: There's a bunch of checkboxes, click or form for whatever
Speaker 8: you're interested in buying land, being a resident, being a
Speaker 8: strategic partner or business owner, Yes, volunteers. There's a lot
Speaker 8: of options. So if you won't get involved, go to
Speaker 8: Freedom Georgia dot com.
Speaker 12: But if you really want to be down with us,
Speaker 12: like you really want to be down with what were doing,
Speaker 12: we have partnered with a national nonprofit organization called the
Speaker 12: Black Achievement Fund.
Speaker 8: The Black Achievement Fund is a simple concept. Ten million
Speaker 8: black folks giving nine dollars a month, there's less than Hulu,
Speaker 8: there's less than Netflix. You got nine dollars, that's less
Speaker 8: than your coffee you spend on a weekday. We can
Speaker 8: create a sustainable income of ninety million dollars a month
Speaker 8: where we can then create our own communities with our
Speaker 8: own money.
Speaker 2: We don't got to owe nobody nothing but to love them.
Speaker 8: And if we can create this with this just nine
Speaker 8: dollars membership, we are offering grants, business loans. We'll be
Speaker 8: building businesses of much needed services like dentists offices and
Speaker 8: administrative offices that just by being a member that pays
Speaker 8: nine dollars a month, you'll be able to access these
Speaker 8: services at no cost or at cost and adult visit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So the president and the founder of the Black Achievement
Speaker 8: Fund is an exceptional historian historian.
Speaker 2: From Cornell University.
Speaker 8: He has conceptualized this, tested this, there's re search that
Speaker 8: went into this, that this is how we build for ourselves.
Speaker 8: And so we are designated so you can make a
Speaker 8: tax deductible donation and designate the Freedom Georgia Initiative. And
Speaker 8: whenever we do anything Black Achievement Fund members hear about
Speaker 8: it first, because that's how you put your money where
Speaker 8: your mouth is. This is how we create economic power.
Speaker 8: This is how we create political power by joining together
Speaker 8: and putting our money where our mouth is.
Speaker 2: And it's just nine dollars.
Speaker 8: And that little gift, that donation that you're gonna get
Speaker 8: to write off anyway at the end of the year,
Speaker 8: that's gonna make a big impact for our communities.
Speaker 2: And it comes with benefits. Membership has benefits.
Speaker 8: So you can go to www dot b a f
Speaker 8: dot Solutions and you can really really be a part
Speaker 8: of joining this movement by contributing that nine dollars a month.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, so all right, so when
Speaker 4: did you guys think is gonna be up and running,
Speaker 4: like as far as like when are were breaking around
Speaker 4: on the first house or the first road or what
Speaker 4: what does come first? Like is the houses come first?
Speaker 4: Is the farm come first?
Speaker 2: The farm comes first first.
Speaker 8: So the first thing that we're doing is the farmhouse.
Speaker 8: Because we have a master farmer that is a part
Speaker 8: of our collective.
Speaker 2: And to be perfectly honest, like.
Speaker 8: Until we can liberate her from the corporate plantation, she
Speaker 8: can't come farm.
Speaker 2: So we got to build her house.
Speaker 8: We gotta make sure she's got a salary, and then
Speaker 8: we can start the farming because someone's got to be
Speaker 8: there around the clock to actually farm that land and
Speaker 8: you know, make sure it's growing the right way, that's
Speaker 8: getting the right water, that the pollination is going away,
Speaker 8: because sometimes you have to self pollinate these days because.
Speaker 2: The bees is disappearing. We got a lot of bees
Speaker 2: on our land.
Speaker 8: We got bees, but you do need someone there to
Speaker 8: tend the land, like we have to stewart the land.
Speaker 8: So the very first step is to make sure that
Speaker 8: the person who's qualified, our certified master farmer, has the
Speaker 8: ability to live there and do that. So as soon
Speaker 8: as we can, we're going to be putting our farmhouse
Speaker 8: and that'll actually serve as an income stream because we'll
Speaker 8: be able to airb and be it and invite guests
Speaker 8: and visitors to come enjoy the land, and then we'll
Speaker 8: have the farming and start. The next step from there
Speaker 8: will be our teeny retreat center, like we want to
Speaker 8: have teeny cabins so that way people can because the
Speaker 8: land is gorgeous.
Speaker 2: If we don't do nothing else but just come and hang.
Speaker 8: Out and just spend time on the land, that experience
Speaker 8: alone is worth every penny because it's just so nice.
Speaker 8: And so by creating this avery tourism and eco tourism economy,
Speaker 8: first will begin to start putting the houses and the
Speaker 8: vacation homes, the retirement homes.
Speaker 2: Every phase leads to the next phase.
Speaker 6: So how often, because I remember when we were talking,
Speaker 6: it was like, k I'm not going to be on
Speaker 6: the land that day. How often is somebody I guess,
Speaker 6: out of the nineteen families actually on the land, is
Speaker 6: somebody always there?
Speaker 2: No, That's why.
Speaker 8: We'd be like, stop calling us and stop showing up
Speaker 8: to our land, y'all, Like not just come jumping up,
Speaker 8: you know, people crazy. Yeah, and we got signs up now,
Speaker 8: stop trespassing on our land y'all.
Speaker 2: People just driving around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the tree I saw.
Speaker 8: Don't come to our land unless we invite you, like people.
Speaker 2: All the time, but we are not there. We got
Speaker 2: regular jobs.
Speaker 8: Like one of the things we say at the time
Speaker 8: is like we regular people, even though we're not regular.
Speaker 2: Really we're a little regularly, you.
Speaker 8: Know, we're exceptional people, but we're regular, you know, Like,
Speaker 8: so we got jobs, like my husband works for Marda,
Speaker 8: So we don't be at the land every weekend we
Speaker 8: go when we got something to do. When we got
Speaker 8: like so this weekend that we're getting ready to be there,
Speaker 8: we're building a sweat lodge because we're getting ready to
Speaker 8: have an event called a Black Girl Magic Retreat is
Speaker 8: a private event that we're hosting. And then we have
Speaker 8: our Freedom Fall Festival coming up. So whenever we have
Speaker 8: an event, it brings us to the land. When we
Speaker 8: got something going on, we ain't got nothing going on
Speaker 8: with it.
Speaker 3: I heard this and I'm like, how's this pot?
Speaker 6: Well, obviously you have aography, got somebody that's doing it.
Speaker 3: Maybe obviously engineers going to create a lake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 8: We are lucky enough to have a creek already on
Speaker 8: the land, and so there's a couple of ways that
Speaker 8: can happen, Like we'll have to.
Speaker 2: Dig first, Like digging is the major thing.
Speaker 8: If we're lucky enough, we'll hit a spring or aquifire
Speaker 8: that might actually make the lake happen for us, Like
Speaker 8: that will be the most idental situation when we hit
Speaker 8: a spring that would be lovely.
Speaker 2: We have to fill it up.
Speaker 3: When we call it Moses West.
Speaker 2: Let me holler, Let that water atmospheric.
Speaker 3: Generator we're gonna need a million gallons, and.
Speaker 2: Then that's how you fill it up. You order the water,
Speaker 2: you fill it up.
Speaker 8: It's some things that we might have to gravel it,
Speaker 8: or we might have to put some clay.
Speaker 2: It's probably clay.
Speaker 8: We might it might already be clay because we kind
Speaker 8: of it's funny enough.
Speaker 2: The street is called Little Sandy Creek, so.
Speaker 8: It's probably not what we want, which is sand, because
Speaker 8: sand means the water we constantly filter out of it.
Speaker 8: We'd have to keep filling it back up, or we'll
Speaker 8: have to amend the soil in such a way that
Speaker 8: we have enough clay that it keeps the water in there.
Speaker 8: So it's it's a lot of engineering. I'm not the expert,
Speaker 8: but we have people who are. Are one of our elders,
Speaker 8: we call her profit is Caroline Sunny.
Speaker 2: Every week, that's her.
Speaker 8: She's a fisherman and her and her husband they own
Speaker 8: a boat.
Speaker 2: They go fishing all the time.
Speaker 8: So right now they're okay because the Coney river's right there,
Speaker 8: so the good green they boat down.
Speaker 2: They go on the river. But they're like, look this lake.
Speaker 8: This lake, though, that's the only thing they worry about
Speaker 8: right now. This Lake, and I'm like, I promised them
Speaker 8: with lake. That's how I knew they was gonna sign
Speaker 8: up that they wanted the lake, because like I'm a marketer,
Speaker 8: So I was like, I look, I was like, I
Speaker 8: know who I want and I know what they hot button.
Speaker 2: So I was like, we're gonna put this lake on
Speaker 2: this presentation.
Speaker 4: So let me let me ask you this, because you
Speaker 4: any of you guys can ser this. You always hear
Speaker 4: like Georgia Georgia and Atlanta is different, like Atlanta is
Speaker 4: like the Black Haven, but once you go outside of Atlanta,
Speaker 4: it's like it's a whole different environment. So you guys
Speaker 4: are outside of Atlanta in the country, We've heard so
Speaker 4: many stories about the South, the rural south, the country, like.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, Like it's it's true. So yeah,
Speaker 5: how's thet.
Speaker 4: How's the hospitality been? And being that you're looking to
Speaker 4: buy more land, do you think that now that people
Speaker 4: know what you did, like that they'll be reluctant.
Speaker 2: No, they're happy to sell all land. Like people are.
Speaker 8: Always happy to make money, Like they don't never change.
Speaker 9: Like this one thing. They all care about that game.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 10: The folks down there are welcoming though. Everybody's that everyone
Speaker 10: in that area, in that county, county.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's their family oriented because this is the kind
Speaker 8: of place. Like Wilkinson County has nine thousand residents, so
Speaker 8: they got three schools Wilkinson High School, Wilkinson Middle School,
Speaker 8: Wilkinson Elementary for seven cities.
Speaker 5: Everybody goes to school.
Speaker 8: Everybody go to They.
Speaker 9: Literally just walking to your property as if they like
Speaker 9: they know you.
Speaker 5: Like this is like.
Speaker 2: It's like sir, Now they do all walk it's the country.
Speaker 2: So they all walk around with guns.
Speaker 8: The right to bear arms is big, like and that's anybody,
Speaker 8: the white folks, black folks, everybody got we got guns.
Speaker 8: We have guns like an amendment rights. We got guns.
Speaker 2: And to be clear.
Speaker 12: To be clear, we are legal, like we're veterans, like
Speaker 12: we got guns.
Speaker 2: You know how we do.
Speaker 3: So we're creating the loss.
Speaker 8: So everybody's been cool, everybody has been kind. Like I said,
Speaker 8: it's a it's a diverse community. It's lots of good
Speaker 8: black folks, lots of good white folks. Everybody is not
Speaker 8: even really about color. It's about a culture. And they
Speaker 8: got that kind of small town culture that makes you
Speaker 8: feel at home, makes you want to be there. Like
Speaker 8: every time I go, I feel like I'm going home,
Speaker 8: Like it feels so good whenever we get.
Speaker 7: To Absolutely there have been people that came to the
Speaker 7: land and got lost, and one of the locals, just
Speaker 7: in the pickup truck, was like, yeah, we are.
Speaker 2: Found some people over here.
Speaker 3: I think they're looking for you.
Speaker 9: Exactly.
Speaker 8: They because it's a lot that's a big hunting community,
Speaker 8: and so like they be hunting, so they.
Speaker 5: Noticed we do they have.
Speaker 10: We're gonna we're gonna do it too with wild turkey
Speaker 10: hunting and board honting.
Speaker 2: Yep, dove hunting.
Speaker 6: Interesting some of some of the I guess I feedback,
Speaker 6: but our criticism of it is that all you guys
Speaker 6: are building a black community. But I like the word
Speaker 6: you said, allies, So that's not it's not that it's
Speaker 6: just for black people.
Speaker 3: You will have people of other races.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna take care of the world, I know, So
Speaker 6: that that's the purpose of it right there there.
Speaker 3: There's it's going to be diversity as well where you go.
Speaker 2: Where we ain't got diversity.
Speaker 4: But I don't even see why it even has to
Speaker 4: be diverse, because you go to Chinatown and there's no
Speaker 4: diversity and nobody nobody says anything. Yeah, every major city
Speaker 4: in America and all over the world.
Speaker 6: It's crazy because that was that was part of the critics.
Speaker 6: Like when we put the post up, it was like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, this is racist.
Speaker 10: I saw that on your Black people try to do
Speaker 10: anything they try, it's always something that you always trying
Speaker 10: to find something wrong with it to discredit it. Something
Speaker 10: this is the problem with this is the problem days,
Speaker 10: Like come on now, I mean, like you were saying,
Speaker 10: just tying totown, no one going to complain about that.
Speaker 9: I know in New York.
Speaker 5: My wife is in the Long Island.
Speaker 10: And she was we woul drive around when I first
Speaker 10: met her, and she was I was like, no, fascinating
Speaker 10: New York and all that, and she would just show
Speaker 10: me these places where even if you had the money,
Speaker 10: you can't live there because if you're not you know,
Speaker 10: Italian or from China, you know China, whatever the case
Speaker 10: may be, they don't want you and then you're not
Speaker 10: going to live there. So no one goes to complain
Speaker 10: about that at all. I mean, it's just the way
Speaker 10: it is. But you come up. We would have a
Speaker 10: city and I was sitting with this and with.
Speaker 7: That, it is like, come on now, well you know
Speaker 7: that's the reason why I think that's a big reason
Speaker 7: why we even did this, all right, because I mean,
Speaker 7: I mean, I mean, I was originally was born in Trinidad,
Speaker 7: but I grew up in Brooklyn. One of my friends
Speaker 7: wanted to get a Brownstone and in the best style area,
Speaker 7: and she had to go through one of her allies
Speaker 7: to get it. They would they literally would not sell
Speaker 7: to her. She showed up in her blackness, you know,
Speaker 7: she's Afro Latina, and they were like, oh, yeah, it's
Speaker 7: just missed it not for sale. Is we have another
Speaker 7: buyer or whatever whatever the story was, showed up with.
Speaker 5: One of her allies.
Speaker 7: Boom, paperwork done. But so just to talk about what
Speaker 7: you were saying, Yeah, there's a little China, Italy, you know,
Speaker 7: all of these different places.
Speaker 5: Nobody say anything about that.
Speaker 7: When a construction company and a whole subdivision goes up,
Speaker 7: it's not a white subdivision. It's just a subdivision just
Speaker 7: happen to be millenated. I mean, I don't really see
Speaker 7: the big deal, but apparently I know where we are.
Speaker 2: I know, I think the fact.
Speaker 8: That we said it like that's the thing, like we
Speaker 8: set it out loud is the problem, and it's not
Speaker 8: and it shouldn't be a problem because what we typically
Speaker 8: see is they discriminate through finances. Because if you put
Speaker 8: a three hundred thousand dollars house up, most people who
Speaker 8: look like us can't afford it, and those who can,
Speaker 8: when they do buy it, they probably are going to
Speaker 8: feel very unwelcome.
Speaker 3: They ain't gonna be three hundred. It's gonna be like
Speaker 3: four hundred.
Speaker 12: It might be five.
Speaker 2: Especially when we start talking about.
Speaker 8: Gated communities and top areas with the best schools, they
Speaker 8: we get priced out of it, and so they don't
Speaker 8: have to call it a white community.
Speaker 2: They just call it a rich community.
Speaker 8: And if you happen to be black and get in there,
Speaker 8: they're gonna make you feel unwealthy.
Speaker 10: They're gonna be one of you be one of a few,
Speaker 10: and then you know you're gonna have a kid, especially
Speaker 10: they're darthy, and they're gonna you get area is gonna.
Speaker 2: Be Yeah, you're gonna wonder why they constantly.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up, though, because that's
Speaker 7: that's something that we haven't been able to control. The
Speaker 7: narrative in the initial stages. You know, these news agencies
Speaker 7: they want you know, hot yea, they want to sensationalize it,
Speaker 7: you know. And it was like, you know, I saw
Speaker 7: one post and that says, yeah, nineteen black families by
Speaker 7: some land, but the black was like bold and a
Speaker 7: different font, you know, three sizes is bigger, and I'm like,
Speaker 7: here we go. And then that's where you get those
Speaker 7: comments from. Yeah, it's a town built by black people,
Speaker 7: But that don't mean if you're not black, you're not welcome,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. So you know, I just
Speaker 7: want to throw that out there. It's not reverse racism
Speaker 7: and all this other stuff. It's just we trying to
Speaker 7: be the change we want to see in our society,
Speaker 7: and our society hasn't.
Speaker 5: Been showing that for us. So we're going to do
Speaker 5: it ourselves.
Speaker 3: To freedom, simple, to freedom.
Speaker 4: Freedom for one hundred acres in the mule?
Speaker 5: Did you get the mule?
Speaker 2: We gonna get us a.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll have a stable of champion breeding horses if
Speaker 8: we're lucky. But we look forward to a wonderful relationship
Speaker 8: with a heavy equipment company because we ain't got time for.
Speaker 2: Equipment, right, give us a call.
Speaker 4: Guys. It's been a pleasure. It's been a pleasure. I
Speaker 4: want to give you guys the Florida to speak to
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Speaker 4: So what would you guys like to tell I mean
Speaker 4: you kind of told the information before, but any last
Speaker 4: encouraging words for people that may want to start their
Speaker 4: own or may want to join you, or like, you
Speaker 4: know what, what is your message that you would like
Speaker 4: to just give, clear up any misconceptions that you would
Speaker 4: just want to just give to the public. How can
Speaker 4: how can they contact you guys? Like, how can they
Speaker 4: social media handule stuff like that.
Speaker 10: I'll start off My instagram is Freedom Georgia Initiative.
Speaker 7: My instagram is actually Freedom I'm sorry, actually playing Freedom
Speaker 7: twenty my personal instagram.
Speaker 10: My instagram is God's Favorite fifty six. But I just
Speaker 10: want the people to know that we're here for everybody.
Speaker 10: We're here to make this, this city a real thing.
Speaker 10: This is not just something that we're doing for a
Speaker 10: hot moment in history. Is something that we're going to
Speaker 10: continue to do the rest of our lives. I mean,
Speaker 10: this is something that we're all. We bought into this.
Speaker 10: We have no there's I'm not gonna say there's no
Speaker 10: way out, but there's really.
Speaker 9: Met each other with this one right here.
Speaker 10: There's really no way out of this, and so we
Speaker 10: know this is something that we're doing for the long
Speaker 10: run and we want everyone's support. I mean the support
Speaker 10: from everyone that we've been getting has actually been fueling
Speaker 10: us to move faster. It's like to move, you know,
Speaker 10: have faster and more Disney and what we were doing before.
Speaker 10: It's like wow, people a people are wanting us to succeed,
Speaker 10: and that energy is propelling us forward. So it's like, man,
Speaker 10: we can't lose. That's I feel.
Speaker 4: Ashley Kevin.
Speaker 5: Absolutely so.
Speaker 7: The beautiful thing about being part of this initiative is
Speaker 7: that we get to pick and choose the things that
Speaker 7: interest us. I know, at the beginning, I was asking Ashley, so,
Speaker 7: so what's next on the vision.
Speaker 5: She's like, whatever you want to do? keV.
Speaker 7: I was like, whatever you want to She was like, yeah, freedom, freedom.
Speaker 7: So you know what, You're absolutely right. So my interests
Speaker 7: are specifically in sustainability, technology. You know, this is this
Speaker 7: is staying on the forefront of these things will propel
Speaker 7: us into.
Speaker 5: The next generation.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, we got the land, now it's time to implement
Speaker 7: a lot of those things. I mean, Scott is not
Speaker 7: the limit, right, shout out to Jessica.
Speaker 2: Mobile, Jessica Enterprise.
Speaker 7: So for everybody that's listening, you know, if if you've
Speaker 7: ever you know, if you ever had those plans that
Speaker 7: you know, you all were saying, oh, I'll do it tomorrow,
Speaker 7: I'll do it next year, or you're making all of
Speaker 7: these excuses, you know, just stop.
Speaker 5: Now's the time.
Speaker 7: You know, we're doing it, and we didn't have the
Speaker 7: whole plan mapped out, you know, but by starting it,
Speaker 7: it's kind of forcing us to get to know each other,
Speaker 7: you know, how to accelerated rate. You know, all of
Speaker 7: the presses is forcing us to do that, learning these
Speaker 7: different techniques. And you know, I'm forever a student. So
Speaker 7: my thing is, now is the time. Don't wait tomorrow,
Speaker 7: don't wait next year. I mean, I never thought a
Speaker 7: pandemic was gonna hit.
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 7: That stuff that happened not here, you know what I
Speaker 7: mean in the movie like, yeah, but no, here we
Speaker 7: are and there's a there's over two hundred thousand people
Speaker 7: who are no longer here with us. That's where all
Speaker 7: of the wealth is. They say, the wealthiest place of
Speaker 7: knowledge is in the graveyard. Because we don't know about it.
Speaker 7: You know, they they're deadn't gone, and now that knowledge
Speaker 7: is don't going with them. So do yourself and do
Speaker 7: us a favor and don't go to the grave with
Speaker 7: that knowledge. Let's share it this organized, let's get together.
Speaker 7: You have the website, it's freedom Drudgia dot com. You know,
Speaker 7: if technology and sustainability is your thing, you know, make
Speaker 7: sure that you want to come speak to Kevin. All right,
Speaker 7: just put that in the email and we'll respect sendail.
Speaker 7: We do that. You know, we're looking for volunteers. We're
Speaker 7: looking for people to really make this happen. So if
Speaker 7: this is something that you know you don't want to
Speaker 7: start your own, or you want to be a part of,
Speaker 7: or even if you want to start your own, let's
Speaker 7: have that conversation. So that's the thing that I would
Speaker 7: leave people. Let's keep the conversation going, because it really
Speaker 7: is all in conversation.
Speaker 8: All right, I agree, Kevin, and I love what you said.
Speaker 8: Keep the conversation going. That's what I would say. Is
Speaker 8: my my biggest pieces, my goal, my entire hope is
Speaker 8: to inspire black folks to create generational wealth and legacy
Speaker 8: through asset building. The biggest asset in this time is land,
Speaker 8: land and real estate. Listen and real estate. And the
Speaker 8: reality is for us to finally begin to create for
Speaker 8: ourselves the lives that we want. Is start art with
Speaker 8: generating wealth for ourselves, income.
Speaker 2: Streams, revenue streams.
Speaker 8: That give us the power and the ability to create
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Speaker 4: Some people think I'm ball, but I have a low caesar.
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