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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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0:00.0 | Coming up, we're talking about land theft and land reparations on Black History Year. |
0:04.7 | Stay tuned. Throughout history, the land has been a source of power, identity, and survival for black communities. After centuries of ecological |
0:25.1 | cultivation and agricultural innovation, our ancestors brought valuable knowledge of the land |
0:30.6 | to the harsh wilderness of the Americas. |
0:33.0 | And they and their knowledge built the United States from the ground up, |
0:37.0 | but from the broken promise of 40 acres in a mule, |
0:40.0 | to the oppressive system of Sheer-Crobbing, |
0:42.0 | and now the rising tide of gentrification, |
0:45.2 | many of us still don't have land to call our own. |
0:48.7 | I don't know about y'all, but I think it's about time we talk about reparations, |
0:53.2 | land reparations. |
0:55.3 | I'm Deerem from Bush Black and you're listening to Black History. |
0:58.8 | You know, in many circles it's said that owning land is the key to wealth of freedom |
1:08.6 | but I want to challenge that idea just a bit I mean is true liberation even possible in a system that modifies land and |
1:17.2 | pushes out the most vulnerable a system that's currently criminalizing |
1:21.0 | houselessness after creating the conditions for it. |
1:25.0 | Yeah folks, we're going there today. |
1:27.5 | So to explore this and much more, we brought in someone deeply entrenched in the trenches of his work, the incredible Bria Baker. |
1:37.0 | Bria is a freedom fighter and writer who's been on the front lines for almost a decade. |
1:42.0 | She just released her debut book, Rooted, the American |
1:46.6 | legacy of land theft and the modern movement for black land ownership. In it, she digs into the history of one of America's original and ongoing sins, |
1:57.0 | land theft. |
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