#Reparations #BlackTowns #StoriesOfEvolution. By SE McClain. April 2006
(This is the 2022 update for relevancy)
Tulsa's Black Wall Street. Photo courtesy of Greenwood Cultural Center via https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/remembering-tulsas-black-wall-street/2391537/
The Year was 2025, but in this town, it looked more like the early 1800s. Only dirt paved the streets on which horse drawn wagons lugged lumber, cement and bricks. Bronzed men filled the soon-to-be town center, tall, in steel toe cowboy boots. Hat brims hung low over their eyes, distracting the blinding sun.
Our newly elected mayor, Shango Amun, was holding a ribbon cutting ceremony in honor of our town’s first modern structure; New Kemet’s city hall.
Three years earlier, both the descendants of the African Maafa, and the descendants of those who
reaped from the transatlantic slave trade, all agreed upon a suitable reparations resolution.
“Give them the land!” The liberal Americans chanted, “give them the land! Give them the land...”
Leaders of the movement had long stopped fighting for individual checks to satisfy our immediate desires, but instead had decided that African Americans would greater benefit from the establishment and ownership of our own cities.
“Give them the land,” which stretched east of the Rockies and narrowly along a great number of
unoccupied acres. Although the lands had no coast, they were rich in freedom and opportunity.
At first, many conservatives fought against the campaign...but the timely assassination of the most
powerful of them...silenced much of the protest. Simultaneously as the movement was making real gains here in America, the West African governments decided to outright grant all the black descendants of African slaves, citizenship in all West African countries. They assessed that involuntary participation in the maafa granted them several liberties within the African continent, and citizenship would be one of them.
Considerations, they informed us, were also being made to allow for the development of a type of Afro-community. The West African Alliance. Much like the Euro-community, the WAA would grant all citizens of West Africa citizenship in every West African country. The construction of a common currency would ensue. Food corridors between the newly formed WAA and New Kemet was immediately established and new trade agreements were being considered.
African land grants became available immediately to those of us descendants who petitioned to begin land development. Some of our scholars equated the urgency in which land was being distributed was due to the African government’s fear of black eradication. Manmade diseases targeted a lot of African citizens, and in America, black was becoming white every year, especially black wealth. But nonetheless, our scholars agreed that these land grants, from both America and Africa, was the only way to accumulate collective black wealth. It would indeed set the stage for economic equality.
Of course, many African Americans were not interested in settling in the developing black American cities, nor the black African cities; we called them the TBW: The Brainwashed. Not one of us, the Resettlers, objected to their objections.
Today, well into the future, there are no more of the brainwashed. For a while we were great business partners, but now they have all integrated to the point of extinction, and no black can be found in their descendants.
Most importantly though, in all of those hard earned and well deserved African American cities, heads are held high, people respect one another, black billionaires thrive and city goers flourish.