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So you get the land, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.800 you get, you get the families. Everybody agrees to it. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:12.720 Now you just have one hundred acres. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.639 It's a lot of money, a lot of money. The step, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.319 the step is a mass as much money as. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:21.760 You can right, so listen. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.880 It literally starts with buying the land. That's the easiest first, 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.080 that's the easiest part is buying the land, setting up 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.160 the LLC so that we could buy the land. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.800 We did that two days. That's easy. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:39.039 The harder parts are spending that money on the photographical 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:43.319 survey to find out what the topography. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.080 Is and whether or not you can build. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.400 If it's too steep here that means you can't build here. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:58.000 Soil samples, percolation tests, water testing, environmental testing, environmental impact fees. 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.000 There's always another step. 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:05.160 And then because we have such a massive project, it's 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.040 not just one hundred acres, like to be a city, 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.800 we need at least six hundred and forty acres a 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.280 square mile radius. So you constantly like, okay, that means 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.480 we got to acquire more land. So you have to 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.040 negotiate the next conversation with the neighbors, like a neighbor, 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.320 can I get your land so that we can get 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.840 this puzzle piece going, so that we can eventually have 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:29.480 enough of the requirements meant to push a charter through 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:30.160 the legislature. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.160 So if this is like building blocks, this is just 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:32.919 the first piece. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.080 You have to still get a few more pieces to 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.400 make it a city action. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.280 And the people because you got to have at least 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.880 two hundred residents, and so every little thing is strategic 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.640 and even the politics of it all making sure that 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.880 Wilkinson County knows that we're here to help uplift them, 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.000 like we're here to add. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:53.000 Value to the county. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.600 If we can attract more people to the area, that 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:01.320 means Tombsboro, Gorton, Ivy, all of those people doubling. They 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.959 get to benefit from that economic development too of now 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.280 having more people in the area. So there's so many 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.000 different things. But technically, yes, you have to get a 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.240 civil engineer. From the civil engineer, he's going to just 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.040 do like, Okay, this is your roads, this is your setbacks, 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.200 this is your stormwater runoff, this is your waste water management. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.440 A waste water management system state of the art can 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:26.640 cost a million dollars. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:29.040 Then that's if you're doing it. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.720 Like top of the line and you're trying to be 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.400 eco friendly, and that's our goal. Our goal is to 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.320 build the best and so taking the time to research 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.680 and find like, who is the best, who is the 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.760 person that can create as a black person because sometimes 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:44.480 I don't want to put it this way because I 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.560 think we have enough talent to do everything ourselves, but 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.480 sometimes the people who are most qualified might not be black. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:51.960 So then we have to look at, well, what does 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.840 that look like when we have to go to an 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.320 ally and say, hey, can you partner with this subcontractor 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.640 or the sub vendor so that we can put some 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.000 black people onto the project because y'all the only ones 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.200 who can do it. Because that's all of the types 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.880 of things that we're navigating. Even when we talk about 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.640 we're gonna have to put homeowners insurance on every single 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.320 house that we build in Freedom, we would love to 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.800 be able to put a black homeowner's insurance. Be the writer, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.280 the person who writes the policy, not the person who 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.880 writes the policy, but the actual insurance agency. We don't 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.560 have a black owned insurance agency. We got Guico State 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.080 Farm ain't no black ones. So that's the kind of 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.479 stuff that we're always thinking about when it comes to 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.040 this journey of building a community that meets all of 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.000 our needs, and that is pro black and allows us 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.800 to really support black businesses in that way, because that's 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.840 what our goal is every step of the way. We 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.680 want to put black businesses on and so looking at 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.880 how do we do that, how do we hire the 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.240 best civil engineer, the best city planner, Because after you 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.440 hire the civil engineer, he lays out the roads. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:56.760 Now somebody's got a plan. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.719 Okay, the subdivision's gonna go here, This subdivision is going 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.120 to go there. This is where the agricultural goes, this 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.360 is where the industrial goes. And if we don't want 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.719 to have polluted air, we might need to move industry 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:08.560 way over here. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.040 If we need the you know, waste water management, and. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.160 How can we utilize permanent culture so that everything's regenerative, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.240 Like we having those kinds of conversations. 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.200 So I feel this is like you know, Sims, this 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.240 is that's why we. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.000 Exactly doathor Mike might used to kill that guy was 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.000 my favorite. We used to catch them in the computer 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:29.720 room in eighth grade. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.480 That was my favorite. That was my favorite. That fount 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.720 but so and Sims. If anybody's familiar. Sims was a 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.600 video game back in the days. It was a computer 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.159 game where you can build your own city. So this 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.800 sounds like it reminds me of sims So and your brain. All, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.359 I want to get all of your opinions on this. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.479 How do you envision your city looking like right now, 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.680 it's just land, but in the perfect world if everything 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.880 goes perfect, which never nothing ever goes perfect. But how 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.919 what's your blueprint in your brain that you want a bank, 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.400 you want a school, you want what do you? 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.560 What do you? What are you envision in the community. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.440 But as I say, y'all hear it, and everybody's got 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.800 a different vision. Like and when I think, because at 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:11.880 the end of the day, I'm a relative, so I 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.680 always kind of go back to the real estate. So 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.600 I'm like, it's gonna be different subdivisions, some kinds because 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.320 I don't never want to live nowhere where every house 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.039 look the same, but some people like the uniformity of 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.120 I want every house on my subdivision to look the same. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.920 And when I think about building freedom, I want people. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.560 To have choices. I think that's what freedom is genuinely about. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.039 So if we got the misers, that's like, look, I 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.280 want a little subdivision where I can have my r V. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:35.839 We're gonna put them way in the back. 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:40.520 You can what I mean, like I see having different communities, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:44.280 different vibes where we're not all on top of each other. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.600 Because it's rural and it's beautiful. We've got a lot 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.840 of wildlife, lots of animals. We don't want to run 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.320 them off. We want to be as eco friendly and 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.200 as environmentally and naturally in harmony as we can because 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.479 the land is just gorgeous, so like it won't be 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.760 a whole bunch of sky scraper or none of that, 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:05.800 because the rural beauty of this scenic landscape is the selling. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:06.560 Point real quick. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.080 Because I'm thinking, like even when you said the waste 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.240 management piece of it, yes, eco friendly, But as you're 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.240 building it, are you building it for the ninety seven 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.760 acres first, or you're building it with the intent that, yo, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.360 we're going to acquire more land. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.000 Is that what we. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.720 Absolutely are doing it with the intent to acquire more land? 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:23.480 Got you? Got you? 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.560 And the other part was said, two hundred people have 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.600 to live there? How many acres does it have to be? 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.080 So technically, because we still ender the jurisdiction of Wilkinson 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:34.160 Cam is it is. 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.960 It a state mandate or is it a county mandate. 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:40.040 It's a county mandate typically, but so we this is raw, right, 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.960 so they don't have everybody out there in this area 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.240 that they told us. We thought Tombsborough was the Bulldogs. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.240 They told us where we boughtland was the Bulldog. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.200 They were like, oh, you in the Bulldog. I was like, sir, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:52.239 you think. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:59.720 We So they're on well, they're on septic right now. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.920 County code means that anybody who builds there has to 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.440 have at least an acre, a minimum of an acre 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.120 to put your well in your septic tank on for your. 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.920 Home, like a water well, a waterway, like you got 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:11.320 a jail. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.600 Yeah, excuse me. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.120 So we do have, you know, awesome technology like I 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.800 all everywhere I go, Like I shout out to Moses West. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:31.320 He has atmospheric water generation technology that literally separates the 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:37.439 hydrogen and oxygen particles from the air to generate gallons, 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.800 thousands of gallons a day. His technology is a piece 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.960 of technology that they utilized in Puerto Rico to bring 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.800 fresh water to Puerto Rico after the hurricane hit. So, like, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.200 we have black excellence all around us, and so being 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.880 able to implement those kinds of technologies is what we 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.080 want to do, we want That's why when I wrote 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.880 my Black Blavity piece, my optat, I said, we can 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.080 have what kind of like we really can, Like the 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.560 sky is not even the limit. Like anything we can conceive, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.880 we can create, and there are so many people already 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.719 out here doing it, doing. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.559 It dope, like doing some dope things. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.800 So being able to attract those kinds of resources and 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.280 those kind of people has been the most exciting part 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.440 about it, which is one of the reasons why we 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.280 went public, because everybody always talk about you know, on 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.080 conversations on social media, people. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.679 Talk too much. YA should have kept it to y'allself, And. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.040 I'm just like, but we would not have inspired a 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.560 generation people all over the world. We wouldn't have been 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.760 able to attract the resources people like, look, I will 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.080 help you do this because they want to see this succeed. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.160 Because we had so many black cities that were burnt down. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.240 To completely destroyed for no reason other than white aggression 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.720 and jealousy and misdirection. 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.679 And so this is a. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.280 Chance for our our ancestors do something that can honor 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.760 them because they were so talented, they had so many dreams, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.240 so many prayers, and to be the answer to those 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.080 prayers is what this moment is about. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:11.800 So I'm gonna ask all three of you a question, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.800 and ask I've heard you speak about it before, but 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.640 the importance and you use the word a safe haven 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.040 for black families, what does that look like? 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.320 And how does that come about? 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.000 I guess all three of you can answer really right? 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:27.000 Sure? 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:30.360 All right? 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.520 So, growing up, like I'm from New York too, and 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.400 we used to have the pledge of allegiance. This is 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.280 what I was saying on the zoom, but the zoom 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.120 the audio went out, a little bit. Pledge of allegiance. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.760 You stand to your feet, you put your hand over 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.160 your heart, turn to the flag. All right, I'm gonna 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.080 spare you the words. But at the end it says 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:54.880 liberty and justice for all, and that wasn't really reflected 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.680 in my neighborhood. I was a little confused growing up, 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.160 you know, like every day you brainwashing us to say this, 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.839 but that's not what I'm seeing, you know what I mean? 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.840 Where's the liberty and justice for all? 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:04.520 The all part? 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:04.800 You know? 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.280 So I guess I started my path to just kind 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:11.000 of go down and have it make sense for me. Eventually, 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.800 you know, so networking that's how it became an entrepreneur. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.560 You know, it just didn't feel right, you know, going 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.040 and making somebody else rich and you know, getting the 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.960 peanuts and not really getting the respect that I needed, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.200 Like I'm running this company, you know, so just trying 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.360 to make that make sense, you know. So I do 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.800 that with my family, with my friends, with people I 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.439 meet strangers, you know, because that's the change I want 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.320 to see in the world. So I live that, you know. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.240 So that's what that looks like for me. People that 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.320 have a vision that may not have the support that 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.160 they may that they may need. You know, it's tough 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.880 being an entrepreneur, I know, you know how many man, 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.760 my mom still wants me to be a pilot to 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:52.199 this day. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:54.199 To this day. 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.120 Sorry Mom, it's not happy, you know. But but for 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.840 those people who need that support, but that's all it takes. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.160 You know, you have a vision, you may not have 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.439 the little components that you may need, but your neighbor 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.880 might have it, your cousin's friend might have it. You know, 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.520 somebody went to high school with might know somebody. You know, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.760 get that network together right and then you can achieve that, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.680 you know, but the key thing with that is getting 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.240 the right mindset. So we don't want that kind of 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:23.040 mindset in our land, in our world. You know, that 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.520 mindset is everything, just everything. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:26.760 You know, if you. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.520 Think you can or you think you can't, probably right, 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.680 oh right, you know what I'm saying. So you know 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:34.840 I gotta think actually again for you know, we talk 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.360 even before this, you know, offline about a lot of 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.720 different entrepreneurial experiences and things that we wanted to do. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.000 But it's because of the mindset. I wouldn't have conversations 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.800 I have with her, with you know, my neighbor who 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.240 doesn't have the mindset for it. 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Oppression is not 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.720 just police, you know, that could be negative vibes from 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.200 a spouse or from a loved one, or from your boss, 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.960 or from your neighbor or your parents or from whoever. No, 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.640 so a place where you can feel free to experience 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.240 life and you don't have to worry about that kind 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.520 of stuff and you can really focus on your dream 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.840 and your mission, you know. So you know, I'm glad 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.320 you brought that up because we're gonna be need a 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.400 lot of help. So we're here to here today too, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.160 to reach out, you know, like you know, people of 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.120 like minds. If this is something that speaks to your soul, 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.680 speaks to your spirit, please reach out to us, you know, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:20.520 please reach out to us. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.360 Safe even for me, you know, it's similar to what 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.000 you guys were saying as well. You know, I have 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:26.840 I have an eight year old son and a nine 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.160 year old nephew that stayed with me and everything, and it's. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:30.760 Like, you know, they get to go outside and not 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:31.080 have to. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.960 Worry about microaggressions from you know, a neighbor who doesn't 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.800 understand their culture, you know, riding down the street on 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.600 their bike and he might be too close to the 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.520 cars and now he's calling the police or throwing rocks 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.600 something like that. You know, they can really just be free, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.840 like literally be free. You know, you go outside and 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:46.800 you don't have to worry about where they're at, and 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.360 you're gonna want to know, you know, just because but 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:49.720 you don't have to worry about where they're like really 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.760 worry because i'mund my dad was in the military. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:53.280 I used to leave the house at eight o'clock. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.240 In the morning and not show up until now, no 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.120 one ever worried about where I was. I mean, my 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.520 parents never showed the interesting, they showed the interest that 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.560 they weren't work I know, they weren't worried, and so 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:03.960 that's what the safe pavin is for me. Then also, 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.479 this whole land, you know, this whole experience is not 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.240 just a safe haven. It's more of like retribution, Like 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.120 we're getting land back. We're taking land that was taking 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:12.919 away from people in my family from years ago. Like 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.240 I'm like, as this is becoming, you know, as I'm 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:16.840 getting more involved with this, you know, I'm talking to 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.600 my family members and knowing more because you know, I'm 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.480 involved with this, and they're telling me stories of things 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.200 that happened to them, you know, in the forties and 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.360 the fifties have land was literally just taken from them, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:25.960 like like you know what, this is not yours anymore. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.199 I'm taking it. You can't do anything about it, you know. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:29.679 So I'm like, wow, I didn't even like I had 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.760 no ideas even happen in my family. But now I'm 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.000 learning about the history of my family and not just mine. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.760 It's so many people in the South who have land 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.960 like literally taken from them, like just just because they 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.760 were black, no other reason than that, just because you 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:43.720 were black. I want this land, it's mine now. So 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.679 all these like you know, especially in Concord, Georgia. You 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:48.720 know it's owned by one family, but that one family 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.080 literally was taking land away from black people. Like wow, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.080 Like my generation is a part of that. Like my cousin, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.760 one of my older cousins, Remember, he literally remembers the 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:57.960 house burning down because they burned it down in order 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:58.480 to get that land. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.600 That it was that serious. I had mean, I. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.159 Had no idea, you know what I'm saying. None of 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.920 these conversations were had. That's because you know, they kind 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.440 of wanted to get rid of those memories. And now 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.000 This is kind of brought it back up. Like I 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:10.399 told them, like, you know what, I'm gonna speak for 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.200 you guys. I'm gonna make sure that you know people 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.080 know your story and this land is for y'all too, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:15.800 So you can come up here and get some red 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.239 dirt play wherever you want to do, you know. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.280 So that's that's that's what it means as well. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.359 Yeah, just going through that process discovering that and now, yes, 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:23.760 that's crazy. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:24.600 That's amazing. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.159 Because this sounds like a very costy project as far 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.439 as like you said, even the sewage systems like a 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:31.080 million dollars. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.920 So can you get loans for this type. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.600 Of project or we can get loans? 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.920