Monday, December 4, 2006

So Much Land To Be Free In



During the Great Depression, many people fled the drought-stricken region that stretched from Nebraska to the Texas panhandle. The struggles of those who stayed are the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan who follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.

One of the most powerful and thought provoking aspects of "The Worst Hard Time" is the fact that the Midwest has never recovered from the Dust Bowl exodus. Even to this day, farmers in the Midwest going bust. "All across the Grain Belt stand abandoned homesteads, symbols of untold stories of failure, flight from the land, and even suicide." They leave behing land, farm homes, barns, etc...

Perhaps to entice urban-weary Brits, even the BBC did a story on Mid West Farmers Going Bust. But the Reverse Black Migration Movement is not about trying to become prosperous farmers as much as it is getting out of the way of the insanity and ever increasing cultural doom that life in Urban America is for us. Therefore, land with a farm house and out buildings, electricty, and water already on it is a huge gift just waiting for us. I dream of small Intential Communities of like minded black people with vision seeing this opportunity and sizing it.

A common Buddhist quote is: "Everything Changes." Sadly, what is true for the "American Farmer," may be a good thing for black people seeking to join the "Back To The Land" movement. (Click here for Wikipedia’s write up.)

2 comments:

Vitorrio Brooks said...

First, I'm sorry to use your web page like this, but I had tried to obtain your email through the "soc.culture.african.american" member profile, but was unsuccessful.

Hopefully you are able to delete this message once you have read it. Also, your blog is exquisitely written. You must be a professional writer, as well as a blogger.

Anyhow, you responded to a post I made at soc.culture.african.american, where you said this "Wow ...

Now This is what blogs are for! Far too many people are using the web
for tabloid type crap. WHO CARES what this or that movie star or "Rap
Star" said or did yesterday.

MySpace is for all that. We're in the middle of a world wide
catastrophe on black folks... and it ain't gonna get no betta without
us MAKING it betta. (An no, that don't mean no "60's stuff.")"

I was hoping to talk to you, in a less public setting, about the petition and about your website, Black Solutions.

Could you please write me dranfu@yahoo.com, so that I could send you an email.

Again, I apologize for using your blog like this, but had I had any other way to send you a message, I would have.

hope to hear from you,
Sincerely,

Vito
dranfu@yahoo.com
Petition Founder
http://the-petition.site.io/

Journeyman said...

Many thanks Vito. Let me hear more from you.

~Fred

What We Believe:

"Every problem is an opportunity in work clothes."
~Henry J. Kaiser